Thespesia
in botany, a tribe of Hibiscex. Trees with large entire leaves; involucre three-leaved, deciduous; calyx truncate; style simple; stigmas five; fruit almost woody; capsule with five cells, each with about four seeds. T. populnea is a tree 40 or 50 feet high, with the foliage so dense at the top that it has been called the umbrella tree.
It has roundish, cordate, pointed, five to seven-veined leaves; the flowers, which are large, are yellow, with a dark-red center. The tree is very common along the seacoast of South America, the West Indies, the Pacific Islands, part of Africa, India and Burma. It has been planted along roadsides throughout India, and especially in Madras city. It yields a gum, a deep-red, somewhat thick oil, used in cutaneous affections. The capsule and flowers furnish a yellow dye, and the bark a good fiber. T. lampas is a small THESPESIA bush, common in the tropical jungles of day of the Lord is now present" (su India, with a good fiber, as has T. populnea. of tas name THESPIAN (from the Thespis, the reputed founder of the Greek drama, who was born in Xarca, pertaining or relating to the representapertaining or relating to the representation of dramatic tragedy, or to the Tragic Muse; as the Thespian art.