Bomia^c.] xxvi. malvaceje. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 349 



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16. BOMBAX, Lmn. 



Trees. Leaves digitate, deciduous. Peduncles axillary or subterminal, 

 solitary or clustered, l-flowered. Flowers appearing before the leaves. 

 Jyradeoles 0. Calyx leathery, cup-shaped, truncate or 5-7-lobed. Fetah 

 pbovate. Stamens pentadelphous, bundles opposite the petals, and divided 

 above into numerous filaments ; anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 «yie clavate, stigmas 5 \ ovules many in each cell. Capside loculicidally 

 o-valved, valves leatliery, woolly within. Seeds woolly, testa thin, albumen 

 scanty; cotyledons contortuplicate.— Distrib. A genus of about 10 species, 

 niostly tropical American, one is tropical African. , 



1 \ ^" ^^l^^aricum, BC. Prodr. i. 479; trunk and branches prickly, 

 leaflets 5-7 quite entire cuspidate, base tapering, filaments ligulate half the 

 length of the petals, capsule oblong obtuse. Wight III. i. '2,9; W. d; A. 

 ^rodr. 1. 61 ; Wall. Cat. 1840 ; Beddome Fl. Syhat. t. 82. Salmaliamalabarica. 

 f ''/'((■ feletem, 35; ThwaUes Enum. 28; Dah. dj Gibs. Bowh. Fl. 22; 

 ,."^, V; ^"^- ^^^- i- Pt- 2, 166. Bombax heptaphylla, Cav. Diss. v. p. 296 ; 

 W. Hon. Beiig. 50 ; Cor. PL iii. t. 247 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 167. B. Ceiba, Barm. 

 TOO i, ^^^ ^^^'- *y'^- Gossampinus rubra. Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 

 "^■-Rheede II wt. Mai. iii. t. 52. 



Tropical Eastebn Himalaya, and throughout the hotter forest regions of India, to 

 "iRMA and Ceylon.— Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



r '^'■ge tree, covered with stout hard conical prickles ; branches spreading. 

 mpu 6-12 in., glabrous ; petiole loDger than the leaflets, secondary petioles 1 in. 



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6-7 "t^'^^^v irregularly clelt, aeciuiious witn tne corona ana stamens, vortnia 

 i la., red or white. Fttals 5, oblouu, recurved, fleshy, twice the lengtli of the stamens. 



^Jv'C^'^^ ^'^^r^i filaments numerous, pluriseriate, 5 innermost forked at the top, 

 each with an flnfl.^^ ir» :„x j'-._ ^i^!."^ *_.. -.„L „ v*,,;. i^,.^^,. than 



•"•merous, obovate, smooth.-Cotlon trek 



each • {, '^'^'^ri, nlaments numerous, pluriseriate, 5 innennost forked at the 



the i *° anther, 10 intermediate shorter, outer very numerous. iStyle longer 

 Hum I' ^"P^^^^ 6-7 in., ovoid, downy, 5-valved, valves 'Silky within. 



in r^'^^^^^^^ '*^«^- ^^- ^siat. Rar. i. 71, t. 79, 80 ; Cat. 1841 ; Kurz. 

 'tlnvT^' • *'^'^^- ^^"•9- 1873, ii. 61 ; trunk without prickles, leaflets 7-9 

 tlmi ^^spidate acuminate glaucous beneath, filaments slender two-thirds 

 »"e length of the petals. 



A tr'*' o""""' ^^^ *'^«^ Andaman islands. 

 R,lj. i;% ^0-30 ft. ; trunk marked with large leaf-scars. Leapts 5 m. Flowers 



JointPl * ?'^' scattered on leafless branches. Peduncles \ in., thick, club-shaped, 

 glob,«* 7 ^"P- ^lou:ers 10 in. diam. ; buds globose. Calyx 1^ in., urceolate- 



«arW' -T^^^^ °'' slightly two-lobed. PetnU 5-6 in., linear-oblong, recurved, downy, 

 elon'.o* I "• *''a^""»« many. Ofan/ ovoid. Stigma 5-\o\>gA. Capsule \0 by I m., 

 ■ °^^'**' «^"ed at the apex, glabrous. 



r^ 17v ERZODBM DRON, DO. 



.tiiftp?V Leaves digitate, deciduous. Flowers appearing before the leaves, 

 %'a<lfi *^^^ii<ls of the branches, or axillary, large white or rose coloured 

 biindlll^- C'a^ya; cup-shaped, truncate, or 3-5-fid. Pe^o/s oblong. Skymnal 

 orlinpn. ' opposite the petals connate at the base eacTi bearing 2-3 sinuous 

 oWi r!r ^"^hf s- Ovary ovoid, 5-celled ; style cylindncal, dilated, stigma 

 talvpr^^ 5-lobed. Capsule oblong, coriaceous or woody, 5-celled, 5-valved, 

 •mo^rt, -'^^'y silky within. Seeds globo.se or obovoid, testa crustaceous, 

 ""•-Q ,;9iath silkv haii^ oiKi,t«oT, c^nntv r.ntvledous contortuplicate.— 



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