BOMBAX

(Lat.),n.n. Bo?m’ba?x(ba8x), Gen., bom’/bac is. 1. Cotton. [A,825.] 2. A genus of bomb a ceo us (according to Bentham and Hooker, malvaceous) plants, including those that produce the so-called silk-cotton. [B, 19, 180.|—Bombacis semina. The seeds of Go ypium herbaceum. [B, 180.|—B. ceiba. See ERIODENDRON anfractuosum.—B. grandiflorum. The Cochliospermum go yium. {B, 180.]—B. heptaphyllum. See B. mala bar i cum and . septenatum.—B. hibiscifolium. The Max i mil i an i a regia. {B. 173.|—B. mala bar i cum [De Candolle]. An East Indian tree, he bark of which is used externally for inflammations and cutaneous eruptions, the root-bark as an emetic, the leaves for diarrhoea, and the nectar of the flowers as a laxative and diuretic. [B, 173, 180,]—B. occident ale [Sprengel]. See ERIODENDRON occident ale. —B. orientale [Sprengel]. See ÉRIO DENDRON orientale.—B. pent and rum. See ÉRIODENDAON occident ale.—B. pyramid ale. See OcHROMA lagopus.—B. quinatum. See ERIODENDRON anfractuosum.—B. septenatum [Jacquin]. _A large tree of the West Indies and South America, where the root-bark is used as a vulnerary and piven internally as an emetic. Demulcent pectoral! drinks are made rom the seeds, and the young leaves are eaten, [B, 180.j—Semen bombacis. See Semen Go yPtt.