Bompax. BOMBACEX. 61 
* 926. (1) A. digitata (Linn.)—DC. prod. 1. p. 478; Spr. syst. 3. p. 124 ; 
Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 969 ; Wall. L. n. 1838; Wight! cat. n. 227. 
Naturalised at Samulcottah, Madras, Negapatam, and probably elsewhere 
in the Peninsula. à 
II. BOMBAX. Linn. 
Calyx without bracteoles, campanulate, unequally 2-5 lobed, or truncate 
and 5-toothed. Petals 5, united together and somewhat connected at the 
base with the column of stamens. Stamens numerous, monadelphous at the 
base, free towards the apex. Anthers inserted by the middle, reniform or ob- 
long, opening above by a transverse cleft. Capsule large, woody, 5-celled, 
5-valved. Cells many-seeded. Seeds with albumen, imbedded in silky cot- 
ton.—Large trees with soft spongy wood. Leaves palmate. Flowers large, 
scarlet or white, usually springing laterally from the trunk or branches either 
singly or several together. 
227. (1) B. Malabaricum (DC.:) trunk prickly: leaflets 5-7, quite entire, 
acuminated at both ends: fruit oblong, obtuse-—DC. . 1. p. 479; Spr. 
syst. 3. p. 124; Wall.! L. n. 1840 ; Wight ! cat. n. 225.—B. heptaphyllum, 
Cav.; Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 50; Cor. 3. t. 247; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1483.— 
B. ceiba, Burm. fl. Ind. (excl. many syn.)—Gossampinus rubra, Ham. in 
Jen Soc. Trans. 15. p. 128.—Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 52,——Courtallum. Mala- 
r. 
IV. ERIODENDRON. DC. 
Calyx without bracteoles, irregularly 5-lobed ; lobes usually in pairs. Pe- 
tals 5, united at the base with each other, and with the column of stamens. 
Filaments joined together into a short tube at the base, but divided upwards 
into 5 filiform bundles, each bearing 2-3 linear or serpentinely bent (anfrac- 
tuose) anthers, the latter combined and resembling a simple anther. Style 
crowned by a 5-6-cleft stigma. Capsule and seeds as in Bombax.—Appear- 
ance that of Bombax. 
228. (1) E. anfractuosum (DC.:) trunk at the base prickly: leaflets 5-8, 
quite entire or serrulated towards the point, lanceolate, mucronate, glaucous 
beneath: anthers versatile, anfractuose—DC. prod. 1. p. 419; Wall. ! L. n. 
1839; Wight! cat. n. 226.—Bombax pentandrum, Linn. ; Roxb. in E. I. C. 
mus. tab. 1484: Lam. ill. t. 587.—B. orientale, Spr. syst. 3. p. 124.— Ceiba 
pentandra, Gertn. fr. t. 133.—Gossampinus alba, Ham. in Linn. Soc. Trans. 
15. p. 126.— Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 49-51; Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 80. 
ORDER XXIIL—BYTTNERIACE/E. R. Brown. — 
Calyx naked, or with an involucel or bracteoles: sepals 5, more or 
less united at the base: zstivation valvate. Petals hypogynous, 5 or 
none, often saceate at the base and variously lengthened at the apex: 
wstivation convolute. Stamens hypogynous, equal to the number of 
the petals, or some multiple of them, more or less monadelphous, some 
of them often sterile: anthers bilocular, extrorse. Ovarium of 5 (rare- 
ly fewer) carpels, that are more or less united : styles as — M the 
carpels; distinct or united : ovules ascending, 2-3 or many in each car- 
pel. Capsule 3—5-celled, 3-5-valved. Seeds with a strophiolate apex, 
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