50 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Cochlospermum. 



stigmas free or united. Ovules on 2 or many parietal placentas, 

 amphitropous or anatropous. Fruit dry or fleshy, indehiscent or 

 dehiscing with as many valves as placentas. Seeds arillate or 

 testa pulpy ; albumen fleshy ; embryo axile ; cotyledons foliaceous, 

 often cordate. 



palmately lobed ; flowers 4-5 in. across ; fruit a capsule 



1. Cochlospermum. 

 Leaves not lobed : 



Leaves large, ovate-cordate ; petals white or pink, 1 in. long ; fruit a 

 bristly capsule ; seeds covered by a red testa ..................... 2. Bix a. 



Leaves large, more or less oblong ; petals white or yellowish, '5 in. 



long with scales attached within ; fruit large, woody, tomentose : 



Stamens 5-8 ; peduncles 1-few-flowered, axillary ; leaves serrate or 



with reticulate nervules ................................. 3. Hydnocarpus. 



Stamens indefinite ; peduncles often fascicled on the old wood ; 

 leaves entire with parallel nervules .................. 4. Asteriastigma. 



Leaves rather small; petals 0, or under ! in. long; fruit a small 

 glabrous berry ; usually thorny : 



Style long, erect, entire or lobed ; all the flowers bisexual 



5. Scolopia. 



Style very short, entire or branched ; most flowers unisexual : 

 Stigma entire or slightly lobed at the end of the simple style ; 

 ovary 1-celled ; berry globose, passing abruptly into the style, 

 under -3 in. in diam ........................................... 6. Xylosma. 



Stigmas separate at the top of the style or of its branches or, if 

 capitate, then berry ovate, acuminate, over '5 in. in diam. 



7. Flacourtia. 



1. Cochlospermum, Kunth. 



Trees or shrubs with yellow or red juice. Leaves palmately 

 lobed. Floivers bisexual. Sepals 5, deciduous. Petals 5, large, 

 contorted in bud. Stamens many, inserted on an eglandular disk ; 

 anthers opening by a short slit at the top. Ovary nearly 3-5- 

 celled; ovules numerous, on 3-5 parietal placentas; style 1, 

 filiform. Capsule 3-5-valved. Seeds numerous, cochleate ; testa 

 with long woolly hairs ; albumen oily ; embryo curved. 



COCHLOSPERMUM GOSSYPIUM, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 190 ; W. & A. 87 ; 



Bedd. Fl. t. 171. 



A deciduous tree with 5-lobed leaves tomentose beneath, 

 and large golden-yellow flowers with silky sepals. Fruit a 



