MALV ACE. 101 
almost completely destitute of albumen,’ and whose cotyledons are 
folded and rolled many times round the short straight radicle. 
Bombax consists of beautiful trees from the tropical regions. Of the 
Eriodendron anfractuosum. 

Fic, 168. 
Dehiscent fruit (3). 
ten known species* 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 the Cacaos, reduced to afew —Pat. Brauv., Fl. Ow. et Ben., ii. t. 83.— 
mucous folds. Roxs., Pl. Coromand., iii. t. 247.—Watt., Pl. 
2 Cav., Diss., t. 154.—Jacq., Amer., t. 176. As. Rar., i. t. 79, 80.—TR. et PL. in Ann. Se. 
—H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spee, v. 297.— Nat. sér. 4, xvii. 322.—Watp., Rep. i. 329; 
A.S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 262.—Manr.,, Nov. ii, 794 (Zriotheca); Ann., vii. 415. 
Gen. et Spec., t. 57-59, 99.—Wieut, LU. t. 29. 
