850 XXVI. MALVACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Eriodendm. 



DiSTRiB. A genus of atout 3 species, most of tliem American, one occurs 

 in tropical Africa. 



1. E. anfractuosum, DC. Prodr. I 479 ; leaflets lanceolate cuspidate 



entire or serrulate towards the point glaucous beneath. WcUL Cat IS^^^ 

 W. 4c A. Prodr. i. 61 ; Wight Ic. t. 400 ; Griff. Not iv. 533 ; Dah, d: Gibs. 

 Bomb. Ft 22 ; Miq. Fl hid. Bat i. pt. 2. 166 ; Beddome Ft Syhat AmL 

 Gen. t. 4. Bumbax pentaiidrum, Linn. Sp, PL 989 ; Cav. Diss. v. 293, 1. 151 , 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 165. B. orientale, Sprmg. Syst iii. 124. Ceiba peiitandra, 

 G(.tTtn. Fruct ii. 244, t. 133; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 126. ^no- 

 dendron orientale, Ste^id. Nomencl. 587 ; Thwaites Enum. 2S.—Rli^ede Mori. 

 Mat iii. t. 49, 50; Ritmph. Amb. i, t. 80. 



Forests throughout the hotter parts of India and Ceylon.— Distrib. S. Amenca^ 

 W. Indies, Trop. Africa? , ,V 



A tall tree, trunk straight, tapering, prickly when young; branches horizontal, vei • 

 cillate. Leaflets 5-8, 3^ by 1 in ; petioles at least as long as or longer than the lear^ 

 lets. Stipules small, caducous. Peauncles about 2 in., club-shaped, tufted l-fiowere. 

 Cahfx I in , cup-shaped, 5-cleft, lobes roundish, glabrous on the outside, shghtly uowny 

 within. Petals 5, oblong, connate at the base, downy externally, yellowish winuB, 

 twice the length of the calyx. Filaments shorter than the petals. Ovary comc^h 

 style as long as the stamens, declinate, dilated above the contracted base, stipni* 



trunk, often ventricose or thicker above ; the shape of the fruit is also dificrent.^ ^ 

 I.e. makes 3 varieties— 1. Indicum, above described, with flowers yellowish w'*. "\g,' 

 CaribcEum, with rose coloured flowers ; 3. Africanum, to which no diflerentia ^ ^^ 

 racters are assigned. In herbaria the specimens from'the East and from the es ^^ 

 not nppear to "differ. Planchon, however (in herb.), has suggested that the nam ^• 

 Bheeaii be given to the Indian form. "^^ * ' 





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A tall tree. Leaves simple, scaly. Flowers fascicled in tlie axils of 

 leaves. Bradenles 3-5, connate for nearly their wliole length nito a 

 ciduous cylindric tube, clothed, like the calyx, with peltate scales, otjj^ 

 5, connate for nearly their whole length into a deciduous cylindric i _ 

 Petals 0. 8taminaUube 5-cleft, divisions linear, exserted, decimate ; am" ^ 

 small, subglobose, 1-celled, clustered at intervals on the branches oi^^. 

 staminal-tube. Ovary 5-celled, style elongate, very hairy, stigma c^P^-^jj' 

 ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit globose, densely c^<^tliea . 

 spines, ultimately 5-valved. Seeds with a fleshy aril, albumen 0, cotjie 



fleshy unequal. 



1. C. excelsa, Wight Ic. 1761, 2; Beddome Flor. Syhat, Anal Gen.^ 

 . 4 ; Thwaites Enum. 28. Durio zeylanicus, Gardn. in Calc. Joum^ 

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I\ania]ly hills, Malabar, Wight; Ceylon; common in the central provinces, 

 2500 ft., Thnaites, i Iv h^ 



Leaves elliptic, acuminate, bright shining green above, silvery and ^j^^^V^Jj^/t lb« 

 neath. Flowers densely packed on contracted branches, short pcduncled, poniie 

 base. Fruit the size of a large orange. Seeds like a chestnut. ' : :^ 



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^ ;.Trees. leaves entire, leathery, closely penninerved, icaly, ]^^^^Qj^te 

 beneath.^ Flawers in lateral cymes : peduncles angular. Bracteolts o, 



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