Rourea oblongifolia Hooker & Arnott Bot. Beechey’s 
Voy. (1836) 288. 
Rourea oblongifolia Hook. & Arn. See Rourea glabra 
ABK. 
Sabadilla officinalis (Schlecht. & Cham.) Standley. See 
Schoenocaulon officinalis (Schlecht. & Cham.) A. Gray 
ew Benth. 
Salmalia malabarica (DC.) Schott & Endlicher 
Meletem. Bot. (1882) 35. 
Bombax malabarica DeCandolle Prodr. 1 (1824) 479. 
Bombax Ceiba Linnaeus Sp. Pl. (1758) 511, pro parte. 
Bombax heptaphyllum Houttuyn Nat. Hist. 8 (1774) 
158, non Linnaeus (1753). 
Gossampinus heptaphylla Bakhuisen in Ann. Jard. 
Buitenzorg, ser. 3, 6 (1924) 189. 
Gossampinus malabarica Merrill in) Lingnan Sci. 
Journ. 5 (1927) 126. 
Furtado (in Gard. Bull. Straits Settlements 10 (1989) 
173) has discussed at length the typification of Bombaa, 
Gossampinus and Salmalia, and concludes that Salmala 
malabarica (DC.) Schott & Endl. is the correct name for 
the Red Silk Cotton. 
‘Two of the three species of Bombaxv enumerated in the 
Species Plantarum have since been transferred to other 
genera leaving only B&B. Ceiba available for purposes of 
typification. This Linnean species, however, comprised 
both American and Asiatic elements, a fact which has 
led to considerable variance in the application of the 
name. 
Furtado follows both Schott & Endlicher (Meletem. 
Bot. (1882) 85) and Bakhuisen van den Brink (in Bull. 
Jard. Buitenzorg, ser. 8, 6 (1924) 161) in restricting the 
generic name Bombax (typified by B. Ceiba) to the Amer- 
ican element; and in creating a new generic name (typ- 
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