23o DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM 



Wales ; and lastly, some very remarkable and 

 rare specimens of the bignonice, apocjfiece, and 

 sapoiece, as cerberas, strychnoses, the omphalo- 

 carpwn of M. Palissot de Beauvois, the nerium 

 tinctorium of India, etc. 



The eight compartments opposite the win- 

 dows, on the right and left of the entrance, com- 

 plete the series of fruit. In the four first are 

 the families which follow the sapotce to the 

 leguminosce inclusive ; several specimens of the 

 rubiacece, sapindi, aurantice (i), malvacece, tilia- 

 cece and myrti, are worthy of remark for 

 their form and size, especially the Indian ele- 

 phant apple, feronia elephantum, Roxb. ; the 

 silk-cotton-tree, bombax ; the downy-leaved 

 ochroma, ochroma lagopus ; the boabab, or 

 monkey's bread ; five-lobed capsules, divided 

 by membranes, with their seeds enveloped 

 in a cottony down, which is reserved by 

 the Indians for the cushions placed under the 

 statues of their gods (2) ; the fruit of the 

 coronet-flowered sterculia, sterculia balanghas, 



(1) M. Poiteau has presented to the Museum the specimens described 

 in his work on orange-trees: they occupy the bottom of the first 

 cabinet. 



(2) This fruit was sent from Pondicherry by M. Leschenault ; the 

 indians name it konnamarum ; it belongs to a new genus found in India 

 and South America, which M. Kunth has described under the name of 



cochlospermum. 



