BAOBAB TREE. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx of one leaf, cup-shaped, and half five-cleft. 
Corolla of five roundish petals. 
Seed-vessel oval, divided into ten cells, containing many 
kidney-shaped seeds. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Adansonia digitata. Linn. Spec. Plant, Willd. 3. p. 730. 
Abavo arbor; radice tuberosa. Bauh. 
Pin. 434. 
Abavo tree with tuberose root. 
Guanaeanus Scaligeei. Bauh.Hist. 
1 . p. 109 . Raj. Hist. 1371. 
Baobab Tree. . . . Alp. AEgypt. 66. pi 6j. Bauh. Hist. 1. 
p. 110 . Diet d'Hist. Nat. ed. 1803. 
2 . p. 54 4. pi. A. 23. Mem, de 
l' Acad, des Sciences, \J63. (Adan- 
son) 
The tree which goes by the name of baobab is one 
of the largest productions of the vegetable king- 
dom. It is of African origin, and flourishes in 
Senegal ; but what is highly remarkable in this 
