GUAZUMA. 



GUAZUMA. 



Calyx 5-sepaled, deciduous, the sepals sometimes united 2 or 

 3 together. Petals 5, concave below, linear-ligulate and deeply 

 bifid at the apex. Stamens very slightly connected at the base : 

 sterile ones 5, lanceolate : fertile ones united into 5 trifid fila- 

 ments, each opposite to a petal, and bearing 3 anthers. Styles 

 5, connivent. Stigmas simple- Fruit indehiscent, woody, ex- 

 ternally muricated with club-shaped variously-connected tuber- 

 cles, 5-celled, polyspermous. Seeds ovate-roundish. Albumen 

 very thin, fleshy. Cotyledons plaited. Trees with stellate 

 pubescence. Leaves entire. Peduncles axillary and terminal, 

 somewhat dichotomously branched, many-flowered. W. and A. 



C 212>. G. ulmifolia Lam. encycl. iii. 52. D C. prodr. i. 485. 

 Aug. de St. H. pi. iisaelles t. 14. — Theobroma Guazuma 

 Linn, sp.pl. 1100. Pluk. aim. t. 77. f. 5. Bubroma Guazuma 

 Willd. enum. 806 South America and West India Islands. 



Leaves ovate or oblong, acuminate, unequally toothed, the younger 

 slightly downy, the old ones smooth on both sides. — Old bark es- 

 teemed in Martinique a sudorific and useful in cutaneous diseases. 

 Young bark used, on account of the quantity of its mucilage, to clarify 

 sugar. A. de St. H. 



KYDIA. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, persistent, surrounded by and 

 united at the base with a 4-6-leaved involucel. Petals 5, 

 obliquely obcordate, longer than the calyx, attached by their 

 claws to the base of the staminal column. Samens monadel- 

 phous, the tube split about the middle into 5 segments, each 

 bearing 4 anthers closely placed together at the apex : sterile 

 filaments none. Ovarium single, 3-celled : ovules 2, collateral, 

 erect, at the base of each cell. Style 1, 3-cleft. Stigma dilated, 

 peltate, fleshy. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled, 1-2 cells being occa- 

 sionally abortive ; perfect cells 1 -seeded. Seed erect. Trees, 

 with alternate 5-nerved, somewhat 5-lobed leaves. Flowers 

 white, panicled. W. and A. 



274. K. calycina Roxb. corom.pl. iii. 11. t. 215. DC. prodr. 

 i. 500. _ W. and A. 70. — Coromandel, Nepal, the Neelgherry 

 mountains and other parts of India. 



Leaves roundish, cordate, angularly sinuated, with about 7 palmate 

 veins, sometimes oblique, the uppermost often 3-lobed ; downy on the 

 underside. Panicles downy, axillary, in flower shorter than the leaves, 

 in fruit longer. Calyx of the fruit downy, reticulated, with obovate 

 obtuse segments. — Bark used in India in the same way as that of 

 Guazuma ulmifolia in Martinique. Boyle. 

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