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species! found in all the hot regions of the globe, tropical and extra- 
tropical. 
Beside the Rose-Mallows are placed the Cottons (Cofonniers) (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. Thespesia 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 Dicellostyles, genera which recall by their habit the 
Bombacee and Helicteres, there are only 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, /u/ostylee. 

XII. BOMBAX SERIES (Fr., Fromagers). 
Bombaz* (fig. 167) 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., 
Fil. Bras. Mer., i. 242, t. 48; 255 (Paritium).— 
Watt., Pl. As. Rar., i. t. 44 (Abelmoschus).— 
Wiaeut, Icon., t. 7 (Paritium), 6, 41, 154, 197, 
399, 951 (Abelmoschus), 1592 (Senra).— 
Reicus., Zc. Fl. Germ., v. t. 181, 182,— 
Doxe., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 2, iv. t. 4 (Senra). 
—Sres. et Zucc., Fl. Jap., t. 93 (Paritium).— 
Hassk., Pl. Jav. Rar., 301 (Bombycodendron). 
—Hary. et Sonp., FV. Cap., i. 170.—Harv., 
Thes. Cap., t. 73.—BENTE., Fl. Austral., i, 207. 
—GrisEB., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 84.—A. Gray, 
Man., ed. 5, 68.—Tuw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 26.— 
Tr. et Pu., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér, 4, xvii. 165, 
169 (Paritium).—Seem., Fl. Vit., 16.—Mast., 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i, 194.—H. Bn., in 
Adansonia, x. 174.—Bot. Mag., t. 5245 (Pari- 
tium).—Watp., Rep., i. 802, 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.—Hookx. et Masr., FV. of End., 
344. 
2 Bombax L., Gen., n. 835.—J. Gen., 275.— 
Lamx., Dict., ii. 550; Suppl, ii. 675 (part.). 
—DC., Prodr., i. 478.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5300.— 
H. By., in Payer Fam. Nat., 286.—B. H., Gen., 
210, n. 42.— Æriotheca SCHOIT, Melet., 35.— 
Expz., Gen., n. 5301.—Salmalia SCHOTT, Loc. 
cit—ENpz., Gen., n. 5303.—Ceiba Mant. et 
Zucc., Nov. Gen. et Spec., i. 95, not.—Go:- 
sampinus HAMILT., in Trans. Linn. Soc., xv. 
128 (ex. Expz.).-Hook.& Masr., FV. of Ind., 349. 
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