the silk-cotton tree Bombax heptaphyllum Ja.i.203; Ja.iii.397; Vism.206; Dhp-a.i.279. --vana a forest of simbali trees Ja.i.202; Ja.ii.162 (s. ˚-pālibhaddaka-vana); Ja.iv.277. sattisimbalivana the sword forest, in purgatory Ja.v.453.

cp. Vedic śimbala flower of the B., cp. Pischel, Prk. Gr. § 109