Cochlospermum
(from cochlo, to twist, and sperma, a seed; in allusion to the form of the seed). ORD. Bixineae. Magnificent stove evergreen trees or shrubs. Flowers yellow, large, panicled, with the peduncles articulated at the base. Leaves alternate, stipulate, palmatifid or digitate; petioles jointed at the base. They thrive well in a compost of loam and peat. Cuttings of ripened shoots, taken in April, will root in sand, if place in bottom heat, under a hand glass; but plants raised from seed make finer trees. C. Gossypium (cottony). fl. yellow, large. May. l. three to five-lobed; lobes acute, entire, tomentose beneath. h. 50ft India, 1822. SYN. Bombax Gossypium. (B. F. S. 171.) The other two species reputed to have been introduced are orinocense and vitifolium.