Kydia.] MALVACEAE. 93 



leaves more or less deeply lobed or pinnatifid 2. zeylanica. 



Carpels rounded at the back, usually pubescent ; leaves seldom deeply 

 lobed 3 . odor a ta. 



1. PAVONIA PROCUMBENS, Boiss. P. glcchomifplia, Garcke ; 

 F. B. I. i. 330. Lebrelonia procumbent, Wall. ; W. & A. 

 47 ; Wt. Ic. t. 4. 



Most Districts of the Circars, Deccan and Carriatic, but not 



common. 



A prominent under shrub. 



2. PAVONIA ZEYLANICA, Cav. ; F. B. I. i. 330 ; W. & A. 47. 



Circars and Carnatic from Godavari southwards, not 



common. 



An erect branching undershrub. 



3. PAVONIA ODORATA, Willd. ; F. B. I. i. 331 ; W. & A. 47. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in waste places and open 



woods, common. 



A herbaceous branching weed. 



7. Kydia, Eoxb. 



Trees with stellate tomentum. Leaves palminerved and usually 

 lobed. Flowers panicled, polygamous ; the bracteoles, stamens 

 and styles varying in the different sexual forms ; bracteoles 4-6, 

 obovate or spathulate, shorter or longer than the calyx, accrescent 

 and spreading in fruit and forming dry spathulate wings. Sepals 

 5, divided to the middle into 5 ovate lobes, connivent and per- 

 sistent over the fruit. Petals normally 5, unequally bilobed at the 

 top. Anthers in clusters of 3-4 at the ends of 5 slender prolonga- 

 tions of the staininal tube or in ? flowers reduced in number 

 or 0. Ovary with (2-)3 2-ovuled cells ; style with 3 branches. 

 Capsule 3-celled, loculicidal, depressed-globose, woolly. Seeds 

 reniform, brown. 



KYDIA CALYCINA, Boxb. Cor. PL iii. t. 215 ; F. B. I. i. 348 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 879-80 ; W. & A. 70 : Bedd. Fl. t. 3. K. Boxburghiana, 

 Wt. Ic. t. 881. K. fraterna, Eoxb. Cor. PI. iii. t. 216 ; W. & A. 70. 



Most Districts of the N. Circars and Deccan, in deciduous 



forests ; scarce on the W. Coast. 



A small or moderate-sized quick-growing tree with white soft 



wood of no value. Vern. Hind. Pula ; Ur. Kopasia ; Mar. 



Warang ; Tel. Potri ; Kan. Bendi. 



