[Tel.] n. The silk cotton tree. Bombax heptaphylla, Rox. iii. 167. salmali. Its wood is like the poplar or sallow proverbially large and useless. vadu vatti buragamanu he is a mere log, he is a stupid booby. One species is called kukkaburaga; another is dunkiburagacettu. Briedelia scandens Rox. iii. 737. buragadudi the cotton found in these pods, which steeped in nitre, is used for tinder. mundlaburagamanu. Bombax malabaricum (Wight, plate 297 and Watts.) burugu divi the name of an island, salmaladvipamu.