MALYACEM. 



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almost completely destitute of albumen, 1 and whose cotyledons are 

 folded and rolled many times round the short straight radicle. 

 Bombasc consists of beautiful trees from the tropical regions. Of the 



Friodendron anfractuosum. 



Fig. 168. 

 Dehiscent fruit (§). 



ten known species 2 eight are American. The other two belong, one to 

 Asia and the other to Africa. Their leaves are alternate compound- 



1 Or it is, as in tbe Cacaos, reduced to a few — Pal. Beatjv., Ft. Ow. et Ben., ii. t. 83. — 

 mucous folds. Roxb., PL Coromand., iii. t. 247. — Wall., PI. 



2 Cav., Diss., t. 154. — Jacq., Amer., t, 176. As. Par., i. t. 79, 80. — Te. et Pl., in Arm. Sc. 

 — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 297. — Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 322. — Walp., Rep., i. 329; 

 A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 262. — Mart., Nov. ii. 791 {Friotheca) ; Ann., vii. 415. 



Gen. et Spec, t. 57-59, 99.— Wight, III. t. 29. 



