NOTES ON CEIBA. 173 



v.-c. 47 on the authority of " Melvill cat." I mention it here to 

 correct Bot. Record Club l\e/jort for 1883, where on p. G the above 

 find stands reported by me for Denbighshire — in confirmation of 

 queried record. This must be withdrawn. 



NOTES ON CEIBA. 



By James Britten, F.L.S., and Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 



The following notes have been drawn up in the course of a 

 revision of the material in the British Museum Herbarium : we 

 have also consulted the specimens at Kew. The three species 

 described do not correspond with any specimens or descriptions we 

 have seen, and we therefore suppose them to be new. A note on 

 the synonymy of the one species common to both hemispheres is 

 prefixed, and an arrangement of the genus is appended. 



Ceiba Adans. Fam. PI. ii. 399 (1768). 

 "^C. Casearia Medic. Malven-Familie, 16 (1787). 



C. pentandra Graertn. Fruct. ii. t. 133 (1791) ; K. Schum. in 



Mart. Fl. Bras. xii. 3, 209 (1886). 

 Bonihax pentandrum L. Sp. PI. 511 (1753) ; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 



191, t. 176, fig. 70 (17G3). 

 Eriodendroyi anfractuosum DC. Prodr. i. 479 (1824), etauct. plur. 

 Bombax orientale Spreng. Syst. iii. 124 (1826). 

 ^Bombax occidentale Spreng. I.e.* 



-" Gossampinus albus Hamilt. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 126 (1826). 

 Bombax guineense Thonn. in Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 



PI. ii.' 76 (1827). 

 Eriodendron caribmim G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 292 (1830). 

 Eriodendron guineense G. Don, I. c. 



F/riodendron occidentale G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 513 (1831) ; 

 Kosteletzky, AUgem. Med.-Pharm. Flora, iv. 1876(1835); 

 Tr. & PI. in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 4, xvii. 322 (1862). 

 Gossampinus PaimpJiii Schott & Endl. Meletem. 35 (1832). 

 Eriodendron orientale Kostel. I. c. 1875 (1835). 

 Eriodendron pentandrum Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xliii. 



ii. 113 (1874). 

 Xylon pentandrum 0. Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Plant. 75 (1891). 

 C Schottii, sp. n. Arbor ? Foliola digitatim disposita. 

 Foliola (immatura?) oblanceolata vel oblonga, apice acuta vel 

 sxibacuminata mucronata rarius emarginata ad basin attenuata 

 utrinque sparsissime pilis albidis obtecta, margine Integra subtus 

 subpallidiora, nervo medio prominente. Petiolus communis strictus, 



• Sprengel, who first separated the Old World and New World forms, also 

 refers to his occidentale B. mompoxense H.B.K. v. 300 (1821), but Mr. Jackson 

 keeps this distinct. It was originally described from imiierfect material, the 

 flowers and fruits being unknown, and no further li^iht, so far as we are aware, 

 has been thrown upon it. 



