cotton-tree

There it lay, streaked with long shadows from the setting sun, while a cool southern air rustled in the cotton-tree, and flapped to and fro the great banana-leaves; a tiny paradise of art and care.

Westward Ho! 2007

Four brass swivels, which they had brought up, were mounted, fixed in logs, so as to command the path; the musketeers and archers clustered round them with their tackle ready, and half-a-dozen good marksmen volunteered into the cotton-tree with their arquebuses, as a post whence “a man might have very pretty shooting.”

Westward Ho! 2007

Beneath a honeycombed cliff, which supported one enormous cotton-tree, was a spot of some thirty yards square sloping down to the stream, planted in rows with magnificent banana-plants, full twelve feet high, and bearing among their huge waxy leaves clusters of ripening fruit; while, under their mellow shade, yams and cassava plants were flourishing luxuriantly, the whole being surrounded by a hedge of orange and scarlet flowers.

Westward Ho! 2007

On the platform, is placed the bedding belonging to the deceased, the undercloth, counterpane, etc., and at the head are laid the pillows, bolster-shaped and stuffed with cotton-tree fluff, or shredded palm-leaves, and covered with some gaily-coloured cotton cloth.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The other trees are the mfuma, cotton-tree or bombax (Pentandria truncospinoso, Smith), much valued as a canoe: Merolla uses Mafuma, a plural form, and speaks of its “wonderful fine wool.”

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Here and there are clumps of tall cocoas, a capot, pullom or wild cotton-tree, and a neat village upon prairie land, where stone is rare as on the Pampas.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The hat-palm, a brab or wild date, the spine-palm (Phœnix spinosa), and the Okumeh or cotton-tree disputed the ground with the foul Rhizophora.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

And, last of all, the cotton-tree gave her one of its branches, which would give her, if she shook it, every kind of beautiful garment.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Passing by a cotton-tree, she saw that the ground round about the tree needed sweeping, and she swept it.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

On the arid and burning shores of the ocean, flourish, in addition to these, the cotton-tree, the magnolias, the cactus, the sugar-cane, and all the luscious fruits which ripen under the genial sun, and amidst the balmy breezes of the

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various