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Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



bangga, or Banurhola ; in Camrupa it is called Chokrosal, and I shall here 

 describe it. 



Arbor magna. Ratni verticillati, horizontales. Ramuli Iseves, glabri, tetra- 

 goni, petioles communes mentientes. Folia opposita, horizontalia, disti- 

 cha, oblonga, basi cordata, integerrima, acuminata, supra nitida, subtus 

 nuda, costis subtus carinatis lineata, venosa, plana, pollices undecem longa, 

 quatuor lata. Petiolus vix ullus. Stipulce nullae. 



Paniculce axillares et terminates, foliis breviores, ramis oppositis, angulatis, 

 glabris, rigidis, apice pedunculiferis pauciflorse. PeduncuU proprii teretes, 

 flore breviores, ebracteati. Flores magni, albi. 



Calyx crassissiinus, persistens, inferus, campanulatus, laciniis incurvis ovatis 

 acutis ultra medium sexfidus. Petala sex, subrotunda, tenuissiraa, caduca, 

 calyci ad incisuras inserta. Filamenta plura, subulata, perigyna. Anthera 

 oblongse, incumbentes. Germen conicum, angulatum. Stylus compressus, 

 erectus, calyce triple longior. Stigma peltatum, inargine lobato con- 

 vexum. 



Capsula subrotunda, calyci patenti insidens, magnitu- 

 dine fructus juglandis, suboctovalvis, septis ad 

 medium non pertingentibus suboctolocularis, cen- 

 tre concava. Septa e medio vahnilarum enata, al- 

 ternis longioribus membranacea, binis lamellis 

 conflata ; lamellce ad marginem interiorem loculos 

 versus replicatee, et in receptacula carnosiuscula 



incrassatse. Receptacula unius septi cum iis ad- Capsuiic seciio transversa. 

 jacentium connata, loculos introrsum claudentia. Semina acerosa, pedi- 

 cellata, piurima, conferta receptacula undique tegunt. 



Katou Adamboe, seu Katou Cadeli Poea, p. 47. tah. 22. 



Commeline, as I have already mentioned, considered this as a species of 

 Pariti, or Gossypium, for no very good reason, " quippe utrseque sunt species 

 MalvcE seu Althece arborece." The error of classing it with the Malvaceae was, 

 however, persisted in by several of the best botanists, and it was called by Ray 

 Alccea Indica arborea, elatior, pericarpio carnoso, siibaspera. From whence 



