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naked (not annulate), apex divided into 5 elongated branches 2, 

 3-antberiferous ; anthers adnate linear or anfractuous; each branch 

 simulating one anther. Germen of Bombax, cells 5, oo-ovulate ; style 

 at apex stigmatiferous clavate, 5-agonal. Capsule ligneous or coria- 

 ceous 5-locular ; seeds cc, globose or obovoid, involute in dense wool 

 (of endocarp) ; testa smooth, sometimes arillate at hilum, embryo 

 scantily albuminous or exalbuminous, cotyledons much contortuplicate 

 involving incurved or inflexed radicle. — Unarmed or aculeate trees ; 

 leaves digitate; folioles 3-7, entire; flowers pedunculate, axillary, 

 lateral or subterminal, solitary or fasciculate-cymose (All warm 

 regions of the Globe"). 



76. Chorisia H. B. K. 2 — Perianth of Bombax. Staminal column 

 outwardly below middle 5-lobed ; short antherless, annulate, apex 

 5-dentate or 5-fid ; teeth or branches 2-antheriferous, anthers adnate 

 linear or anfractuous (in teeth or lobes each simulating one anther). 3 

 Germen of Bombax ; cells 5, sometimes incomplete, co-ovulate ; style 

 filiform, shortly exserted from staminal-tube, apex stigmatiferous 

 capitate, obscurely 5-lobed. Capsule ligneous loculicidal, incom- 

 pletely 3-5-celled, 3-valved ; middle valve inwardly septiferous ; 

 seeds involute in dense wool (of endocarp ?) — Aculeate trees ; leaves 

 alternate long petiolate digitate ; folioles 5-7, entire or serrate, with 

 articulate petiole ; flowers 4 pedunculate axillary or subracemose ; 

 bractlets under flower 2, 3 5 {Trop. America)? 



77. Pachira Aubl. 7 — Calyx cupulate, apex truncate or obsolete 

 5-dentate. Petals (nearly of Bombax), much longer than calyx, 



1 Cav., Diss., t. 151, 152.— A. S. H., Fl. 

 Bras. Mer., i. 264, t. 52 — Maet., Nov. Gen. 

 et Spec, i. t. 96-98.— Wight, Icon., t. 400.— 

 Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 427. — Thw., Enum. 

 PI. Zeyl., 28.— Gkiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 8S. 

 — A. Geat, Amer. Fxpl. Exp., i. 182. — Mast., 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., Bot., i. 213.— Te. & 

 Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 322. — Bot. 

 Mag., t. 3360. — Walp., Rep., i. 330 ; Ann., ii. 

 159 ; iv. 318. 



* Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 295, t. 485.— DC, 

 Prodr., i 480.— Endl., Gen., n. 5299.— B. H., 

 Gen., 210, n. 44. 



3 " In C. rosea Seem. (Bot. Ser., 84), co- 

 lumns: staininea; ianii ut in Eriodendro elongati, 



apice antheriferi, sed annulus exterior ut in 

 Chorisia adest." (B. H., loc. cit.) 



4 Pink or reddish. 



5 A genus scarcely distinct from Erioden- 

 dron. 



6 Spec. 3, 4. A. S. H., PI. Us. Bras., t. 63 ; 

 Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 266. — Te. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 321.— Waip., Rep., i. 329 ; 

 Ann., iv. 318. 



' Guian., 725, t. 291, 292.— J., Gen., 279.— 

 Lamk., Diet., iv. 690; III., t. 589. — DC, 

 Prodr., i. 478.— Endl., Gen., n. 5298.— H. Bn., 

 in Payer Fam. Nat., 286. — B. H., Gen., n. 41. 

 — Carolinea L. f., Suppl., 51. — Spach, Suit, 

 a Buffon, iii. 423.— Schott & Endl. Melet., 35. 



