THE PHYTOLOGIST. 



No. XX. 



JANUARY, MDCCCXLIII. 



Price Is. 



Art. evil. — Notes on the Baohah Tree, (Adansonia digitala). 

 By George Luxford, A.L.S., &c. 







THE BAOBAB. 

 Egyptian Sour Gourd. Monkey's Bread. 



Baohah, Bauhin, Hist. i. 110. 

 Adansonia Baohah, Linn. Sp. Plant. 960. 

 Adansonia digitata, Linn. Syst. Veg. 620. 



Group. — Syncarpos.e. Alliance. — Malvales. 



Natural Order. — Sterculiace.e. Section. — Bombace.e. 



Linnaean Class and Order. — Monadelphia Polyandria. 



Having received from a correspondent a copy of the ' Bombay 

 Monthly Times for June, 1 842,' which contains some interesting par- 

 ticulars relating to the Baobab-tree of Senegal, as observed in India, 



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