and stamens. 
72 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
laris, 5 valvis. Semina lana pericarpii obducta.—Americane foliis digitato-compositis, floribus 
magnis albi 
is. 
E. leiantherum DC. 
Gossampinus. Calyx irregulariter 5 fidus. Petala erecta. Dubus stamineus garsree 
atus, apice in crura 5 divisus, antherosomata Junata flexuosa hy distincta seniotin: 8 ‘ges a 
connexa in stigma capitato-subrotundum. Capsula 5 locularis, 5 valvis, cortice eee uro ee 0, 
basi dehiscens. Semina lane immersa.—Indica foliis digitato-compositis, floribus minoribus 
flaventibus. : 
G. Rumphii (Bombax pentandrum orientale Auct.). 
Sacmawia. Calyx subtruncatus irregulariter ad basin usque rumpens. Petala tandem 
revoluto-recurva. Tubus stamineus pluriserialis, in phalanges poly-1. monostemones plures 
divisus, cruribus (phalangis divisiones ultima) simplicibus. Anthere extrorsum affixe reni- 
formes, interiorum staminum geminate majores, exteriorum simplices minores. — Sti mata in 
lobos 5 radiatim-posita. Cetera Eriodendri.—Indice foliis digitato-compositis, floribus 
eee coccinei 
is. 
insignis (Bombax insigne Wall.). 8, malabarica (Bombax heptaphyllum Roxb. ). 
omBax. Calyx irregulariter 3—5 fidus extus eglandulosus. Petala 5 patentia v. reflexa. 
Tubus stamineus in phalanges polystemones 5—v. plures divisus, cruribus 2 fidis. Anthere 
erect oblonge, loculis confluentibus marginalibus 1 loculares. Stigmata in capitulum 5 sulca- 
tum coadunata. Capsula 5 locularis, 5 valvis, placentis incrassatis. Semina lana pericarpica 
obducta —Americana, foliis digitatis, floribus spicatis, albidis. 
B. Ceiba L. B. Munguba Mart. ete. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 29, 
1. Bombax Malabaricum—natural size. 4 and 5. Anthers. , 
A flower, the corolla removed to show the calyx 6. Ovary style and sti 
a, 
- Uvary cut transversely—all more or less magni- 
3. Portion of the same removed from the calyx, fied. 
showing the short tube formed by the union of the 8. Full grown capsule 
r ° 
before bursting. 
base of the filaments round the ovary 9. Mature capsule burst, 
XXIV.—BYTTNERIACES. 
A large and very complex order, consistin 
: g almost entirely of tropical plants, and present- 
ing every variety of form of vegetation, i 
from the slender creeping herb up to the most stately 
In their fructification different 
have proposed dividing them into four or five d 
ing a valvate w@stivation, 2-celled anthers, and 
to keep them together as a single order, 
rieae, Hermannieae, Dombeyaceae, &c. 
already stated, adds two, referred by most other Botani 
and Bombaceae. Under Bombaceae I hav 
iew by adding from other sources those which are left, 
; : r that the whole are essentially characterized, 
by having a wholly superior ovarium of several carpels combined into a solid pistil with the 
