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Jonga, 1 lin. lata. Labellum 6-7 lin. longum, 5-6 lin. latum. Calcar 
6-9 lin. longum. a 1 lin. longa. 
a, Bur. et Franch., in its much larger flowers, 
independently of sete dicito: 
c- 34> 200. Cypripedium ebracteatum, ead herba diphylla, caule nano, 
foliis latissime ovato-orbicularibus subaeut 8, scapis minutissime puberulis 
unifloris, flore ebracteato, sepalo postico elliptico - ovato subacum- 
inato, lateralibus omnino connatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, m 
lanceolatis acuminatis, labello alipin or ngo obtuso 
staminodio ovato- -oblongo, capsula oblonga glabra 
Has.—Hupeh, A. Henry, 1404a. 
Folia 14 pell. longa. Mom poll. lata. Scapus 6-8 poll. longus. 
Sepala 1 poll. longa; postieu m # poll. latum ; lateralia 5 lin. lata. 
Petala 1 poll. longa, 3 lin. lata,  Labellum € poll. Meli Stami- 
nodium 2 lin. longum. Capsula 14 poll. longa, 5 lin. lat 
remarkable TN ie vom differing from C. micranthum, 
Franch., in its much larger flowers, an from C. margaritaceum, 
Franch., and C. Fargesii, esie „in Ja saccate lip. The only specim 
seen is at the British Museum, having been distributed with C. 
japonicum, Thunb. 
DXXXV.—KAPOK. 
Kapok is the Dutch name for the seed hairs of the white silk-cotton 
tree of the East Indies a anfractuosum). The kapok of 
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stuffing pillows, mattresses, and sofas, where its lightness, immunity from 
moth, softness, and AM render it superior to ail but the best 
qualities of feathers, wool, and hair. 
Eriodendron sak dish is a lofty forest tree with a large ras e 
trunk covered with prickles when young. The branches are horizontal 
and arranged in whorls. The rather large flowers are white, se are 
ate as a dry, green capsule, in shape like a short dtbdisbor, filled 
ith black seeds embedded in silky hairs. The seeds are sometimes 
ten aba yield a bland, fatty oil. ‘The residual cake makes an excellent 
food faeit for cattle. The tree occurs in the forest throughout the hotter 
par ndia Ceylon and extends to Sumatra, Java, and tho 
Philippine Islands. It is also distributed to South America, the West 
Indies and tropical Africa. The habit of the tree is a very striking 
e. 
Gallery, Nos. 129, 176, and 632. It is majestic in size, and generally 
towers above all other trees in the dry forests where it flourishes. It 
sends out large buttress-like expansions from the base, while its irn 
afford a favourite resting — P numerous epiphytes. dew fact t 
upper parts of an old silk-cot ree form a very interesting pidas 
The branches and forks are thickly pena with the large tufted growth 
of several species of Tillandsia, numerous ferns, aroids, orchids, and the 
seedlings of Ficus and other trees whose seeds have been carried thither 
bii. Next to the Cocoa-nut palm the silk-cotton ERA one ds one 
most characteristic f 
