350 xxvi. MALVACEAE:. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Eriodendrvn, 



DISTRIB. A genus of about 3 species, most of them American, one occurs 

 in tropical Africa. 



1. E. anfractuosum, DC. Prodr. i. 479 ; leaflets lanceolate cuspidate 

 entire or serrulate towards the point glaucous beneath. Wall. Cat. 1839; 

 W. & A. Prodr. i. 61 : Wi<iht Ic. t. 400 ; (,'rif. Xot. iv. 533 ; ZW.r. <(' 



Bomb. FL 22; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2. 166; Beddome FL tiylnit. Aunt. 

 Gen. t. 4. Bombax pentandrum, Linn. Sj>. PI. \}^\) ; ( 'av. Diss. v. 293, t. 151 ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 165. B. oriental.-, S/, rejig. tiyst. iii. 124. Ceiba pentandra, 

 Gcertn. Fruct. ii. 244, t. 133; //<///?. in T, <!,<*. Linn. Soc. xv. 126. Kiio- 

 dendron orientale, Steud. Nomencl. 587 ; Thwaites Enum. 28. Rheede ILnrt. 

 Mai. iii. t. 49, 50; Jinn r J,. Ami), i. t. 80. 



Forests throughout the hotter parts of INDIA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. S. America. 

 W. Indies, Trop. Africa? 



A tall tree, trunk straight, tapering, prickly when young; branches horizontal, verti- 

 cillate. Leaflets 5-8, 3-4 by 1 in ; petioles ;it least as lung as or longer than the leaf- 

 Ids. >'//'/;//?rx small, caducous. PeawU&U about 2 in., club-shaped, ti fted, l-(]o\vered. 

 ('i/l//.i- h ! in , cup shaped, 5-cleft, lobes roundish, glabrous on the outside, slightly downy 

 within* "Petals 5, oblong, connate at the base, downy externally, yellowish within, 

 twiee the length of the calvx. /'iltniietttx shorter than the petals. <>r/ini < 

 style as long as the stamens, d-elinate, dilated above the contracted base, stigma ob- 

 scurely 5-lobed. Capxule oblong like a cucumber ; septa membranous, tardily dehiscing. 

 tietds numerous, subpyrifonn. black, glabrous. Roxburgh doubts whether the Indian 

 Fperies be the same as the \\ est Indian, which latter is described with an it 

 trunk, often ventricose or thicker above ; the shape of the fruit is also different. DC. 

 I.e. makes .'{varieties 1. hidicum, above described, with flowers yellowish within; 2. 

 Cariba'.uni, with rose coloured flowers; ,'}. Afr',iiiin. to which no differential cha- 

 racters arc assigned. In herbaria the specimens from the Kast and from the W< st do 

 not appear to diifer. PlanclxMi, however (in herb.), has suggested that the name E. 

 lilu idii be given to the Indian form. 



18. CULLENIA, Wight. 



A tall tree. Leaves simple, scaly. Flowr* fascicled in the axils of the 

 loaves. Bracteoles 3-5, connate for nearly their whole length into a de- 

 ciduous cylindric tube, clothed, like the calyx, with peltate sc.-tlcs. /v///i 

 f>, connate for nearly their whole length into a deciduous cylindric tube. 

 Petal* o. StominaJrtvbe ">-cleft, divisions linear, exserted, declinate : anthers 

 small, subglobose, 1-celled, clustered at intervals on the branches nf the 

 staminal-tube. Omr;/ .Vcelled, style elongate, very hairy, stigma capitate ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, superposed. Fruit globose, densely clothed with 

 spines, ultimately 5-valved. S> > 'As with a fleshy aril, albumen 0, cotyledons 

 fleshy unequal. 



1. C. excelsa, WiyJit Ic. 1761, 2; Li-ddome Flor. Sylvat., Anal. Gen. 

 t. 4 ; Thwaites Enum. 28. Durio zeylanicus, (Jardn. in Calc. Journ. Aa(. 

 J/ixt. viii. 



lyamally hills, MALABAR, Wight; CEYLON ; common in the central provinces, alt. 

 2500 ft., Th'i-aiies. 



Leaves elliptic, acuminate, bright shining green above, silvery and densely scaly he- 

 neath. Floirers densely packed on contracted branches, short peduncled, pointed at the 

 hase. Fruit the size of a large orange. Seeds like a chestnut. 



19. DURIO, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves entire, leathery, closely penninerved, scaly, rarely hairy 

 beneath. Flowers in lateral cymes ; peduncles angular. Bracteoles 3, connate 



