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difpofed in frnall umbellae; which are generally placed pretty 



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and on one fide 



of. the foot-flalks of 



each 



mbella being compofed of five or li 



radii, fixed upon a common foot-ftalk. It is a very elegant little pi 





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BOMBAX 



Bombax foliis dig 



Folits digitalis, brachiis erccfo-patentibus 



caule aculeato & non aculeato. L. Sp. PI 



Goflipium arboreum maximum fpinofum, & non fpinofi 



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Goffipium alteru 



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The Silk Cotton-Tree, with ercdt branches* 



Periantium Monophyllum, ventricofum, fubcampanulatum, ereclum 



crems wcertis. 





Corolla Pentapetala; petalis oblongo-ovatis, fubcochl 



Stam 



Jits inferne tubo ftaminum adnat 

 Filamenta quinque, inj* 



iguibus angi 



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flatum, petalis adnatum, germini impcfitum -, fup 

 erefto-patentia, longitudine ji\ 



:ollo coar- 



ne libera 

 cordatte. 



Piftillum. Germen ovatum, tuboftaminum teclum-, itylus /implex, longi 



dine ft 



intra tub 



iffimus \ fupra fi 



tu- 



dus, gibbus ; hide aqualis, declinatus : ftigma, obtufum quin 

 quelobum. 

 Capfula fubrotundo- oralis, quinquelocularis, quinquevalvis. 



Pericarpium, 



Semina Plurima fubrotunda tomento obvol 





BOMBAX 2. Foliis digitatis, brachiis horizoiitaliter porreHis. 

 Bombax foliis digitatis caule levi. L. Sp. PI. 





The Silk Cotton-Tree, with horizontal branches. 



It is not eafy to determine whether thefe are different fp 



variations of 



fame pi 



but the difpofition of the branches is remaikably different, in different 

 d that even in thofe that grow within the fame field. The trees are very 



mon both in the Eaft and Weft- Indies ; they grow 



frequently to the height of eighty or an hundred feet, and 



lly in the low lands, and rife 



well-proportioned ft 



The genus is evidently of the Mallows trib 



by a ftraight and 



d partakes 



diftinclly of all the natural characters of the clafsj but by what chance it happened 



be fo varioufly ranged, by L 



I can't determ 



The flowers g 



fts 



d (hoot commonly in great abund 



moderately larg 



d of a dirty wh 



before th 

 The trunk 





ppe 



while you 



armed with thorns ; but thefe feldom appear, after it has acquired a deg 



ey ar 

 alwav 



height and ftrength, fufBcient 

 good beds, but does not bear 



protect 



The 



of this 



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makes very 



ferve for any 

 for ereens. a 



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purpofe. Tl 



for the hatters ufe, nor has it a ftaple to 



young and 



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ften boiled 



d frequently ufed by the r 

 trees ferve for Conoas (a), or long- bo 



groes 



d the trunks of the fuli-g 



It is a (lately fliady tree, while it 



ftands; but when it fall 



becom 



It for Mac ace as 



d othe 



feels : and 



the chief bed 



mould, for the table mum 



bark of the root has been fometimes ufed with fuccefs 



d is of little ufe be fides. The 



nerary and fubaft 



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fufions 



d the feeds may be adminftered, with propriety, in emulfions and pedoral 





(a) A Canca, Conoa^ or Conoo, is but a junk of fome la 

 of its axis will bear: the length being regulated by fancy, or proportioned to the ufe it is intended for. 

 They are fometimes very large, and hold the water fo well, in thofe fmooth few, that pe 



quently venture twenty or thirty leagues from the fhore in 'em. 



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