MALVACEAE. 



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species' found in all the hot regions of the globe, tropical and extra- 

 tropical. 



Beside the Kose-Mallows are placed the Cottons {Cotonniers) (figs. 

 162-166), forming a very nearly allied genus, with flowers surrounded 

 by a large involucre of three cordate bracts (fig. 162), and having a 

 gamosepalous calyx, truncate, or not very deeply divided by five 

 clefts, a style with clavate apex, traversed by three or five longitu- 

 dinal grooves, and a fruit with three or five cells, containing an 

 indefinite number of seeds, and with an exterior envelope covered 

 with long filamentous hairs constituting the Cotton. T/iespesia and 

 Fugosia are also very nearly related to the Cottons. The same may be 

 said of Kosteletzkya, which, with or without epicalyx, has five cells 

 in the ovary and styles formed like those of Hibiscus, but with only 

 one ovule in each of them ; and Decaschistia, whose uniovulate 

 cells are ten in number, and whose epicalyx is formed of ten bracts. 

 In Julostyles and Dicettosiyles, genera which recall by their habit the 

 Bombacece and Helicteres, there are onlv two biovulate cells to the 

 ovary, and both have an epicalyx of at least four bracts connate at 

 the base. But the former have a diplostemonous androceum, and 

 the latter an indefinite number of stamens. These two genera, 

 natives of tropical Asia, may be united, on account of these particular 

 features, into a little subseries, Julostylece. 



XII. BOMBAX SERIES (Fr., Frontagers). 



Bombaxr (fig. 16?) has regular hermaphrodite flowers with a re- 

 ceptacle the summit of which is slightly concave, and on account of 



1 Cay., Diss., t. 50-55, 58-70.— H. B. K., 

 Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 288, t. 478.— A. S. H., 

 Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 242, t. 48; 255 (Paritium).— 

 Wall., PL As. Par., i. t. 44 (Abelmoschus). — 

 Wight, Icon., t. 7 {Paritium), 6, 41, 154, 197, 

 399, 951 {Abelmoschus), 1592 {Senra).— 

 Reichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., v. t. 181, 182. — 

 Dcne., iu Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, iv. t. 4 {Senra). 

 — Sieb. et Ztrcc, Fl. Jap., t. 93 {Paritium). — 

 Hassk., PI. Jav. Par., 301 (Bombycodendron). 

 — Hary. et Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 170. — Hart., 

 Thes. Cap., t. 73.— Benth., FL Austral., i. 207. 

 — Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 84. — A. Gray, 

 Man., ed. 5, 68. — Thw., Fnum. PI. Zeyl., 26. — 

 Tr. et Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 165, 

 169 (Paritium).— Seem., FL Fit., 16.— Mast., 

 iu Olir. Fl. Prop. Afr., i. 19 k— H. Bn., in 



Adansonia, x. 174. — Bot. Mag., t. 5245 (Pari- 

 tium). — Walp., Pep., i. 302, 307 (Senra), 308 

 (Abelmoschus) ; ii. 790 ; iii. 830 ; iv. 318 (Senra) ; 

 v. 91, 92; Ann., i. 100, 101, 959; ii. 142; 

 iv. 304; vii. 402. — Hook, et Mast., FL of Lid., 

 344. 



2 Bombax L., Gen., n. 835. — J. Gen.. 275. — 

 Lame., Diet., ii. 550; Suppl., ii. 675 (part.). 

 —DC, Prodr., i. 478.— Endl,, Gen., n. 5300.— 

 H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 286.— B. H., Gen., 

 210, n. 42. — Friotheca Schott, Melet., 35. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 5301. — Salmalia Schott, loc. 

 cit. — Endl., Gen., n. 5303. — Ceiba Mart, ct 

 Zucc, Nov. Gen. et Spec, i. 95, not. — Go~- 

 sampinus Hamilt., in Trans. Linn. Soc, xv. 

 128 (ex. Endl.). -Hook. & Mast., FLoflnd., 319. 



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