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bangga, or Banurhola ; in Camrupa it is called Chokrosal, and I shall here 
. describe it. 
Arbor magna. Rami verticillati, horizontales. Ramuli leves, glabri, tetra- 
goni, petiolos communes mentientes. Folia opposita, horizontalia, disti- 
cha, oblonga, basi cordata, integerrima, acuminata, supra nitida, subtus 
nuda, costis subtus carinatis lineata, venosa, plana, pollices undecem longa, 
quatuor lata. Petiolus vix ullus. Stipule nulle. 
Panicule axillares et terminales, foliis breviores, ramis oppositis, angulatis, 
glabris, rigidis, apice pedunculiferis paucifloree. Pedunculi proprii teretes, 
flore breviores, ebracteati. Flores magni, albi. 
Calyx crassissimus, persistens, inferus, campanulatus, laciniis incurvis ovatis 
acutis ultra medium sexfidus. Petala sex, subrotunda, tenuissima, caduca, 
calyci ad incisuras inserta. Filamenta plura, subulata, perigyna. Antheree 
oblonge, incumbentes. Germen conicum, angulatum. Stylus compressus, 
erectus, calyce triplo longior. Stigma peltatum, margine lobato con- 
vexum. 
Capsula subrotunda, calyci patenti insidens, magnitu- 
dine fructus juglandis, suboctovalvis, septis ad 
medium non pertingentibus suboctolocularis, cen- : 
tro concava. Septa e medio valvularum enata, al- 
ternis longioribus membranacea, binis lamellis 
conflata; /amelle ad marginem interiorem loculos 
versus replicate, et in receptacula carnosiuscula 
incrassatae. Receptacula unius septi cum lis ad- Capsule seclio transversa. 
jacentium connata, loculos introrsum claudentia. Semina acerosa, pedi- 
cellata, plurima, conferta receptacula undique tegunt. 
Katou ApAMBOE, seu Katou CapEL: Poza, p. 47. tab. 22. 
Commeline, as I have already mentioned, considered this as a species of 
Pariti, or Gossypium, for no very good reason, “ quippe utrzeque sunt species 
Malve seu Althee arboree.” The error of classing it with the Malvacee was, 
however, persisted in by several of the best botanists, and it was called by Ray 
Alcea Indica arborea, elatior, pericarpio carnoso, subaspera. From whence 
