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Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 18; Wall. Cat. 1888, 1, 2, & C to H. Miq. Fl. 

 In<l. Bat. i. pt. 2, 150. Hibincns popuhieus, L. ; Ro.vb. Hort. Beiig. 51 ; 

 Flor. Ind. iii. 190. H. popidneoidas, Roxb. I.e. Malvaviscris popuhieus, 

 Gtertn. Fruct. ii. 253, t. 185. Azanza acuminata, Alefeld Bot. Zeit. 

 1861, 299. 



In all the provinces, on the sea-shore. Distrib. Ti'opics generally. 



6. BoMBAX, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves digitate, deciduous. Peduncles axillary or subter- 

 minal, solitary or clustered, 1-flowered. Flnivers appearing before the 

 leaves. Bradeoles 0. Calyx corinceous, cup-sbaped, truncate or lobed. 

 Petals obovate or oblong. Stamens in 5 bundles opposite the petals : 

 filaments numerous ; anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary 5-celled, multi- 

 ovulate ; style clavate, stigmas 5. Capsule ioculicidally 5-valved, valvea 

 coriaceous, wooly within. Seeds silky, the testa thin, albumen small ; 

 cotyledons contortupiicate About lO species, all tropical and mostly 

 American ; 1 in Africa. 



1. B. iNSiGNE, Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 71, t. 79, 80; Cat. 1841. A 

 tall tree ; trunk without prickles ; branchlets armed or not ; all parts 

 glabrous. Leaves 7-9-foliolate; leaflets sub-coriaceoas, obovate or ob- 

 lanccolate, shortly acuminate, attenuate at the base, glaucous beneath ; 

 length 5 to 8 in., breadth 25 to 3 in. ; petiolules "5 to '75 in. : petioles 

 longer than the leaflets. Flowers 5 or 6 in. long, solitary towards the 

 end of the leafless branches ; peduncles "75 in. long, stout, clavate. 

 Calyx 15 in. long, thickly coriaceous, urceolate-globose, obscurely and 

 irregularly lobed, ultimately 2-cleft, sub-glabrous outside, silky inside. 

 Petals fleshy, oblong, obtuse, recurved, internally glabrous, externally 

 shortly sericeous, red to orange or yellowish. Stamens many ; filaments 

 fleshy, united for "5 in. above the ba.se into 4 or 5 bundles. Capsule 

 oblong, 10 in. long by 15 in thick, curved, glabrous. Mast, in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. i. 349 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 130 ; Journ. As. Soc. Bcng. 

 1873, ii. p. 61. B.festivnm, Wall. Cat. 1841. 



Andanians. Distrib. Burmah. 



The earliest name of this is J5. /e^^iWjH (1828). But at p. 89 of 

 his Catalogue, Wallich changed this to B. insigne, under which name 

 he figured and described it. It conies very near to B. malabaricicm, 

 DC. ; but Wallich says it is a much smaller tree, and Kurz says it 

 has many more stamens, than the former. I include it as an Anda- 

 man plant solely on the authority of the late Mr. Kurz, but 1 have 

 scon no specimen collected by him or by any other person in the 

 Andanians. And I have a strong suspicion that what Kurz regarded 



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