Bumbax.] 14. MALVACEiE. 21 



Bomb. Fl. '22. The cotton tree. Buria, sauri, K. ; sayar, M. Throughout 

 the pi-esidency in deciduous forests. Fl. Feb., Mch. Fr. Apl., May. 

 Ovary green, glabrous. 



B. insigne, Wall. PI. Asiat. Kar. 1. 71, t. 79, 80; Fl. Br. I. 1. 349. 

 North Kanara, in deciduous forests, counnon on the Kyga ghat. Fl. Feb. 

 Mch. Fl". Apl. Ovary red, tomentose. 



ERIODENDRON, DC. 



Trees. Leaves digitate. Flowers tufted at the ends of the 

 branches, or axillary. Staminal bundles 5, each bearing 2-3 sinuous 

 or linear anthers. Ovary 5-celled; style cylindi"ical dilated, stigma 

 obscurely 5-lobed ; ovules many in each cell. Capsule 5-valved, 

 silky within. Seeds with silky hairs. 



E. anfractuosum, DO. Prod. 1. 479; Fl. Br. I. 1. 350;Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 22 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 30. SJiameula, katsavar, Vern. Khdndesh, 

 Dalz. Fl. H.S. 



Order 15. STERCULIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves stipulate, alternate, simple or digitate. 

 Flowers regular, uni or bisexual. Petals 5 or 0. Stamens mona- 

 delphous indefinite or definite, or free and definite, with or without 

 alternating starainodes. Ovary free, 2-5-celled, rarely 1 carpel. 

 Fruit dry or fleshy dehiscent or indehiscent. 



Flowers unisexual or polygamous. Petals 0. 



Andrcecium columnar or sessile. 



Autliers numerous. Fruit dehiscent ... ... ... t>*TERCULlA. 



Anthers 5. Fruit indehiscent Heritieea. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Petals deciduous, 



Stamiuodes present. Fruit a capsule. 



Capsule membranous ... ... ... ... ... KiEINHOVlA. 



Capsule woody, not tubercled. 



Seeds not winged HeltctebES. 



Seeds winged Pteeospermum. 



Capsule tubercled, like a mulberry in appearance ... Guazuma. 

 No staminodes. Capsule loculicidal Eriol^NA. 



STERCULIA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves simple, palmately lobed or digitate. Flowers 

 polygamous. Calyx tubular, often coloured. Petals 0. Ovary of 

 4-5, sessile or stalked carpels. Ovules 2 or more in each. Follicles 

 woody or membranous. Seeds albuminous, rarely winged. 



Follicles woody. Seeds not winged 



Leaves digitate S.fatida 



Leaves palmately lobed. 



Carpels bristly S. urens. 



Carpels rusty villous S. mllosa. 



Leaves simple 1 -nerved ... ... ... ... ... S. guttata. 



Follicles membranous S. color ata. 



Seeds winged S,alata. 



