88 BOMBACE.E. 



differs by a large, 5-partite stigma. Carolinea princeps, L. fit, — Calyx 12"'-14 w long, 1£" 

 broad at the top ; petals greenish-white, 8" long, 6"'-8"' broad ; sexual organs 7" long, 

 yellowish-purple. — Hab. S. Lucia!: Anders.; [Guadeloupe!; Panama!, New Granada!, 

 Surinam!, Brazil!]. 



P. insignis, Sav. (Carolinea, Sw. cum cit. Cav. Diss. t. 154, Bombax grandifiorum, 

 Cav.), observed in Tobago and Martinique, is distinguished (according to Swartz) by the 

 leaflets usually 7, the flowers red, and the capsule more rounded : of this I have only seen a 

 leaf in the British Museum, the leaflets of which are obovate-oblong and much larger than 

 in P. aquatica (14'— 1' long, and l'-4" broad). 



Adansonia digitata, L. (Tuss. Fl. 3. t. 33, 34 ; Desc. Fl. 4. t. 291), is only a cultivated 

 tree in the West Indies : this genus approaches Pachira, but is distinguished by an indehis- 

 cent capsule, filled with a farinaceous pulp. 



2. ERIODENDRON, DC. 



Calyx shortly 5-lobed. Column divided into 5 filamepts, each bearing at the top 2-3 

 unilocular anthers. Capsule 5-locular, loculicidal : seeds many, enveloped in wool. — Trees ; 

 leaves palmate ; flowers axillary ; petals tomentose externally . 



2. E. anfractuosum, DC. Leaflets 5-7, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate ; petals obo- 

 vate, rose-coloured, glabrous internally ; filaments subulate above : anthers anfractuose. — 

 Cav. Diss. t. 151 ; Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 182 : a form with the leaflets subsessile and serrate 

 above. — Bombax pentandrum, Cav. ; B. Ceiba, Lun. (non L.). — A very high tree : stem 

 armed with spines when young, sometimes ventricose ; leaflets variable in breadth, petiolu- 

 late or subsessile, either quite entire or serrate ; flower-fascicles peduncled ; calyx 6"'-8" 

 long ; petals spreading from the middle, equalling the sexual organs, 20'" long ; stigma en- 

 larged, subcapitate. — Hab. Jamaica!, Bist., Al., everywhere, but chiefly scattered over 

 the hill pastures on the north side of the mountain chain, and one of the most characteristic 

 arboreous features of the island (Cotton-tree); S. Lucia!, Anders., S. Vincent!, Guild.; 

 [Cuba to Guiana 1, and equatorial Brazil I]. 



3. OCHROMA, Sw. 



Calyx shortly 5-lobed, surrounded by a caducous, 3-leaved involucel : calyx-lobes unequal, 

 2 pointed, imbricate at the base, 3 rounded, induplicative. Column tubulose : upper part 

 covered on the outside with adnate, contiguous, spiral, linear, unilocular anthers, 5-10-fid 

 at the top. Stigmas exserted, 5, linear, and spirally contorted into a cylindrical body. 

 Capsule 5-locular, loculicidal : seeds many, enveloped in wool. — Trees ; leaves simple, cordate, 

 angular or absolutely 5—7-lobed, subentire or toothed; flowers terminal, large ; petals pu- 

 berulous externally. 



3. O. Lagopus, Sw. Leaves pnbernlous beneath ; petals pale-rufescent or yellowish- 

 white. — Cav. Diss. 1. 153. — Bombax pyramidale, Cav. — A tree, 20'-40' high ; calyx velvety, 

 3" long ; petals 5"-6" long, somewhat exceeding the column, exceeded by the stigmas : 

 limb obovate, wavy : claws oblong-linear, equalling the calyx ; capsule 1" long : wool pale- 

 rufescent. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., Wils., common in damp situations, in the lower hills; 

 S. Vincent !: Guild.; Trinidad !: Sieb. Tr. 95 ; [Cuba !, Guadeloupe !, Mexico, Venezuela !]. 



4. MYRODIA, L. 



Calyx 5 -toothed or operculate. Column filiform, obsoletcly 5-toothed at the top : anthers 

 10-15, sessile on its outside, bilocular with the ovoid cells united at their ends. Ovary 

 2(-3)-locular: cells biovulate. Stigma subcapitate. Pericarp woody-leathery, indehiscent, 

 usually unilocular and monospermous by abortion : seed large, glabrous, exalbuminoas. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves simple, elliptical or oblong, glabrous ; peduncles lateral or axillary ; 

 petals small, pubescent externally. 



4. Mt. turbmata, Sw. Leaves elliptical, quite entire; peduncles 1-flowered, nearly as 

 long as the petiole ; calyx ovoid, at length turbinate, irregularly circumscissile : remaining 

 tube split into several unequal lobes ; column enlarged at the antheriferous top ; anthers 15. 

 — Sw. Fl. t. 22 : analyt.—k tree, 30'-50' high; petals spathulate, whitish, 6'" long, twice 

 the length of the remaining calyx-tube, nearly equalling the sexual organs. — Hab. S. Kitts 

 to S. Lucia!, Anders., in damp woods [Mexico, Guiana!, Brazil!]. 



