lOG STERCULIACE.E. 



Salmalia, Schott. and Endl. (/. c.) 



1 . mahharica, Schott. and Endl. (/. c. — Bombax malabaricum, DC. pr. 1, 

 p. 479 ;— TF. and A. pr, \. p. 61 ;— Wight, ill. 1. t. 29. a. b ;—J. 



Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 16. — B. heptaphyllum, Cav. ; — Roj;b. fl. ind. ^.p. 

 167 ; — Coram. 3, t. 247 ^—Rheed 3, t. 52.) <Fs5f*f^ Rnkto Shimool. 

 Red CottotiTree, L. b Extends from one end of India to the other, par- 

 ticularly along the foot of the Himalayas. Fl. very large, deep red, Febr. 

 and March ; fr. April and May. Bark of the root used in Java as an 

 emetic. (Blume.) — Wood light, white, spongy, frequently used in 

 India for floating rafters. (Royle.) 



2. insignis, Schott. and Endl. (I. c. — Bombax insigne. Wall. pi. as. rar. 

 1, t. 79, 80.) b Yenangheun in Burma. Fl. very large, deep red. 

 Has been introduced into H. C. G. ? 



Bombax, L. (Schott. and Endl. I. c.) , 



1. Ceiba, L. (DC.pr. 1, p. 478 ]—Roxh. H. B. p. 50 ;— J. Grah. Cat. 

 B. pi. p. 17.) L. b Jamaica, &c. Was introduced into H. C. G. in 

 1808, but had not fl. in 1814. — In the W. Indies its immense trunk 

 is commonly scooped out and converted into canoes. — Juice of the root 

 aperient ; bark emetic. 



Adansonia, L. {DC.pr. I, p. 478 ; — Schott. and Endl. o. c. p. 36.) 



1. digitata, L. (DC. I. c; — W. and A. o. c.p. 61; — Roxb.fl. ind.Z,p. 164; 

 —J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 16 ,—B. M. 55, t. 2791-2.) Baobab or 

 Monkey-Bread Tree. L. b Senegal. Cultivated in India at Samulcotta, 

 Madras, Negapatam, Bombay, Guzerat, &c. Fl. very large, white. 

 May and June; fr. C. S. — The largest tree in the world in the dia- 

 meter of its trunk, which is sometimes 30 feet. Its height is not in 

 proportion. " It is emollient and mucilaginous in all its parts. The 

 leaves dried and reduced to powder constitute Lalo, a favorite article 

 with the Africans, which they mix daily with their food, for the pur- 

 pose of diminishing the excessive perspiration to which they are sub- 

 ject in those climates, and even Europeans find it serviceable in cases of 

 diarrhoea, fevers and other maladies. The fruit is perhaps the most 

 useful part of the tree. Its pulp is slightly acid and agreeable, and 

 frequently eaten ; M'hile the juice is expressed from it, mixed with 

 sugar, and constitutes a drink, which is valued as a specific in putrid 

 and pestilential fevers." (Hook; B. M. I. c.) The dried pulp is mixed 

 with water, and administered, in Egypt, in dysentery. (Delile.) Along 

 the sea-coast of Guzerat, the fishermen use the large fruit as a float 

 for their nets. It is also used medicinally by the Natives, who, like 

 the Africans, esteem it cooling. The leaves are eaten with their food, 

 and are said to restrain excessive perspiration. (J. Grah. I. c.) 

 D. Dombeyete. (Dorabe5'^a2, DC.) 



Montezuma, Moc. and Sesse, 



1. specississitna, Moc. and Scsse. (DC. pr. 1, p. 477.) B Mexico. 

 1837. 



