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Fl. Br. Ind. i. 350 ; Bl. Bijdr. 81 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 61 ; Wight Ic. t. 

 400 ; Griff. Not. iv. 533 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 22 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. i. pt. 2, 166 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. 4. Wall. Cat. 

 1839. Bombax pentandruin, Linn. Sp. PI. 9S9 ; Cav. Diss. v. 293, t. 151 ; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 165. B. orientale, Spreng. Syst. iii. 124. Cciba 

 penfandra, Gsertn. Frnct. ii. 244, t. 133 ; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XV. 126. Eriodendron orientale, Steud. Nomencl. 587 ; Thwaites Emim. 

 28; Kurz For. Fl. Br. Burra. i. 131. 



In all the provinces. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, British 

 India, West Indies. Often planted, 



8. DuRlO, Linn. 



Trees, -with entire coriaceous penni-nerved leaves, scaly beneath 

 (except in D. Oxleyanus). Floioers in lateral cymes : peduncles angular. 

 Bi'acts 2 or 1, connate into a cup, or distinct below, tips free, deciduous. 

 Calyx bell-shaped, leathery, like the bracteoles densely scaly, the sepals 

 distinct, or 5-fid, lobes valvate oblong or rounded. Petals 5, contorted- 

 imbricate, spathulate, longer than the sepals. Staminal-tube divided 

 into 4-5 phalanges opposite the petals ; filaments many, bearing a 

 globose head of sinuous 1-celled anthers, or (in D. Oxleyanus) a single 

 annular 1-celled anther. Ovary usually scaly externally, 4-5-celled ; 

 styles connate, stigmas capitate ; ovules many and 2-seriate in each cell. 

 Fruit very large, subglobose or oblong, spiny, iudehiscent or loculicidally 

 5-valved. Seeds arillate ; cotyledons fleshy, often connate. Distrib. 

 Malay Peninsula and islands ; species 3. 



1. D. ZiBETHiNDS, Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. xiii. p. 581. A tall ti'ee ; 

 young branches thin and, like all the soft parts except the upper 

 surfaces of the leaves, minutely scaly. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rarely 

 obovate-oblong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base rounded ; 

 both surfaces shining, the upper glabrous, the lower adpressed-lepidote ; 

 main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, thin, slightly ascending; length 4'5 to 6 in., 

 breadth 15 to 1*8 in., petiole "4 to '5 in. Flowers 2 in. long, 2 to 3 in. 

 in diam., on long slender pendulous dichotomus peduncles in fascicles 

 from the stem and larger branches, globose in bud : peduncles lepidote, 

 3 in. long, the bracts embracing the calyx and shorter than it. Calyx 

 tubular, ventricose at the base, the limb with 5 or 6 short broad teeth. 

 Petals twice as long as the calyx, spathulate. Stamens in 5 bundles 

 united only at the very base ; the filaments in each bundle united for 

 one-fourth of their length : anthers glomerulate, reuiform, compressed. 

 Ovary elongate-ovoid, scaly ; style pubescent, as long as the stamens. 

 Fruit ovoid-globose, 8 to 12 in. long, woody, densely covered with strong 



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