348 xxvi. MAi,VACE2E. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Kt/dia. 



15. K.YDXA, Koxb. 



Trees with stellate pubescence. Leaves palminerved, usually lobed. 

 Flowers panicled, polygamous. Bracteoles 4-6, leafy, connate at the base, 

 accrescent and spreading in fruit. Sepuls 5, connate below the middle. 

 Petals 5, obcordate, oblique-, longer than the calyx, aduate to the stamina] 

 tube. Staminal-tube divided about the middle into 5 divisions each bearing 

 3 reniform anthers which are imperfect in the female flower. Oi'nry 

 2-3-celled ; style 3-cleft, stigmas 3 peltate, imperfect in the male flower; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, ascending. Ccq^uJ, subglobose. muticous, loculicidally 

 3-valved. Seeds reniform, furrowed. DISTRIB. Exclusively Indian. 



1. K.. calycina, Roxb. Hort. Beng.W; ('>: 7Y. iii. 11, t. :215; 77. 

 Ind. iii. 188 ; leaves downy beneath, bracteoles oblong downy. W'ntht fr. 

 t. 879-80; II'. d- A. Prodr.l 70 ; /*</:. <( Gibs, lln.nh. /'/. ~i\ Beddu 

 ,s'///w/. t. 3; Wall. Cat. 117(5. K. Etoxburghiana, Wi'iht Ic. iii. t. SM ; 



Wall. Cat, 1177. K. fraterna, Roaob. Cor. Pi. t. iMO; '77. Ind. iii. 189; 



W. & A. I.e. K. pnlverulenta, Sam. in 1JV/. r,,t. 1176. 



Tropical regions of the HIMALAYA, from Kumaon eastward, and throughout the 

 \Vi:>i I.K.N ( In \ i-. KIRMA. \VdUich. 



A tree. Leaves 4 5 bv '.'> in., rounded. cordste, palmately 7-nerTed, more or less lolu-cl, 

 niidluld- lun^cst, gl.-iliroiis nhov n\- with thinly si-;ittt-rnl h.-iirs, clusi-ly fcltc'l hfiu-ath ; 



petiole l -li in. /f^CorMeeitce much branched, man j-flowered. J!/-<i*-f <,!>.< \ 6, oblong- 



sputliulate, nearly as Imiir as tin- calyx, iiltiiuati-ly sjii-i-a.ling. J- /<>//,>>< white or pink, 

 .SVyj/j/.s 1 (ivati-, acut(\ J'cttilii I-XC-T iiiii^ the sepals, obconlate. Staminal-tube slmrtfr 

 than the petals, hram-hes nppn>ite to tin- sepals. The size and proportion of the parts 

 vary according to the sex ol the ll'\vrr. 



2. XL. g-labrescens, Mast. ; leaves suborbicular slightly angled, 

 bracteole.s oblancmlate glabrous. 



BHOTAN, ASSAM, and M u..\<< \. d'rii'titJi (all tlie localiti 



A tree, herbaceous portions s]iaringlv hairv. Leaves 4 by 3.^ in., pahninervod, 

 obscurely lobi-d, base Wedge-shaped ; pet'nli- I'.', in. I'miide terminal; Itra.cte^ 

 spreading, accrescent, ultimately 1 in. SVyy//x lanceolate. Capsule th'- si/.e of a small 

 pea, shorter than the incurved sepals, globose, pubescent. 1 have only seen fruiting 

 specimens. 



15.* ADANSONIA, Linn. 



Tree with a short thick trunk and very widely spreading branches 

 forming a mushroom-shaped head. 0av& pubescent beneath when yumg, 

 glabrous digitate, deciduous. F1<r, /-x solitary, axillary, ]nMidul<us, l'>ug- 

 ju'duncled. Cly.r leathery, cup-shaped. 5-cleft, bibracteolate. 7V////X 5, 

 exceeding the sepals, aduate below to the stamens. Stniniiml-tulu' cylin- 

 drical, dividing above into numerous filaments; anthers reniform, 1-celled. 

 Ovary 5-10-celled ; style long, exserted, divided into as many stigmatic 

 branches as there are cells to the ovary, stigmas radiating ; ovules many in 

 each cell. Fruit oblong, woody, indehiscent ; with mealy pulp in the 

 inside. Seeds reniform, testa thick, albumen thin, embryo curved, coty- 

 ledons contortuplicate. Two species are known, one the Baobab, a native 

 of Africa, not truly wild in India, and the other Australian. 



A. DIGITATA, L. ; DC. ProJr. i. 478 ; Cav. Diss. v. 298, t. 15 ; W. <( A. 

 i. 61 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 164; Tkwaites Enum. 28 ; Wall. Cat. 1836 ; 

 . in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 212. 

 Cultivated in various parts of India and Ceylon. DJSTBIB. Tropical Africa. 



