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1. C. Gossypium, DC^ Prodr. I 527 ; leaves palmately 3-5-lobed 

 tomentose beneath, lobes acute entire. Wall. Cat 1843* Wight in II ooh 

 Bot. Misc. \l 357, Suppl t. 18 ; W.& A, Prodr. 87 ; Planck in Hook Kew 

 Journ. Bot vi. 306. Bombax gossypium. Lirm. ; Roxh. FL Ind. iii. 169. 



Dry hills Garwhal, Bundelkund, Behar, Oiussa and the Dekkan; also com- 

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A small naked tree; branclilets iomeiitoae. Leaves ^-% in. diam., old glabrous; 

 petiole slender. Flowers 4-5 in. diam., in few-flowered terminal panicles, golden yellow. 

 Sepals silky. Petals obovate, notched. Capsule 2-3 in., 5-lobed. o>jt^: 



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A tree. Leaves simple; stipules minute. Flowers in terminal I>amcles, 

 2-sexuaL Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, contorted m bua. 

 Anthers opening by 2 terminal pores. Ovary 1-celled ; style slender, curveo, 

 stigma notched ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. Capsule locmiciaaliy 

 2-valved, placentas on the valves. Seeds many, funicle thick, testa pulpy* 

 albumen fleshy; embryo large, cotyledons flat. 



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Cultivated throughout India, and the tropics generally, for the red dye afforded by 



the testa. — Native of America. 



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A small evergreen tree. Leaves 4-8 by 2^-5 in., cordate, acuminate, ^^^ .i ' 

 petiole slender, 2-3 in. Ilowers 2 in. dIam., purple or white. Capsule 1^ '^^•) *^^^^ 

 sulglobose, base intruded, softly prickly. \ *! 



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2. SCOZ.OPXA, Schreber. 







Trees, spinous in India, spines often compound. Leaves alternate, ^^^^ i^ 

 stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, racemed, axillary, 2-sexuaL ^ >^^ , 

 4-6, slightly imbricate in bud. Petals 4-6, subsimilar, imbricate m ^u 

 Stamens many; anthers ovoid, opening by slits, connective prod^^ , 

 Ovary 1-celled; style erect, stigma entire orlobed; ovules f^^'' ^? S^ 

 parietal placentas. Berry 2-4-seeded. Seeds with long f unicles, t^^.^^ . ' j 

 cotyledons foliaceous, — Distrib. Species about 15; Australian, Asiatic ^ 

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1. S. rbinanthera, Clos. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viiL 252; leaj^? 



PL Jay. Par. 187, t. 39. P. macrophylla, W. <fc A. Prodr. 30. Ifcoui 



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inermis, Wall. Cat. 6673 (?, //, only. 



Malacca, Griffith. — Distrib. Java, Borneo. ' V te«tk 



A tree. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-2 4 in., coriaceous, shining, base rounded or ^^f\^^^. 

 glandular; petiole 4 in, Pacemcs 3-4 in.; flowers 1- or more-bractcate. oepais ^^^ 

 Petals twice as long, glabrous, ciliate. Connective of authors glabrous, 

 globose. 



2. S- Rozbur^hii, Clos. Ic. 250 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate ftC^^^ ^^ 

 subcrenate glabrous 3-5-plinerved at tlie base, petiole 2-glandmii/' *jj^^ 

 top or not, racemes softly pubescent, sepals and petals 6 ^^^^\P^^iL%, pl 

 formed. Miq. FL Ned. hid. i. pt. 2, 107.- Phoberos Eoxburgbii, f^^ta, 

 Jav. Bar. 192. Ludia spinosa, Roxh. FL Ind. ii. 507. ^ Flacourtia stigin*" 

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