158 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
curved, radicle short; cotyledons 2-plicate——Trees, glabrescent or 
stellate-tomentose ; leaves entire or subdentate, sometimes shortly 
3—5-lobed ; flowers solitary axillary pedunculate ; bracts 4-6, under 
flower verticillate in involucre (nearly 1-inch), lanceolate, subconnate 
at base, stellate-patent much longer than calyx (Hastern mountainous 
India, Zeylania’). 
XII. BOMBACEX. 
74. Bombax L.—Flowers regular, hermaphrodite ; receptacle de- 
pressed or slightly coneave. Calyx (afterwards sometimes slightly 
perigynous) cupulate, truncate or irregularly 3-5-lobed. Corolla 
(malvaceous) ; petals narrow or obovate generally pubescent, usually 
connate at base among themselves and with the androceum, con- 
torted in bud. Stamens » ; column above divided into  fila- 
ments, L-anthered, or more rarely 2-anthered (Zotheca) ; the interior 
or nearly all more or less 2-nate connate and 5-adelphous at base ; 
anthers 1-lobed, more or less arched, rimose at margin. Germen 
free, 5-locular ; cells &-ovulate; style clavate at apex 5-agonal or 
very shortly 5-fid. Capsule coriaceous or more or less ligneous, 
loculicidal ; cells 5, inwardly clothed with very dense wool (spring- 
ing from interior of pericarp) enfolding seed. Seeds subglobose 
or ovoid; testa crustaceous smooth or opaque, generally naked at 
lateral hilum ; embryo scantily albuminous ; cotyledons much contor- 
tuplicate, oftener surrounding straight radicle.— Lofty trees, apex 
often densely comose ; leaves alternate long-petiolate (stipules deci- 
duous) digitate ; folioles 3-9, apex of petiole expanded in continu- 
ous disk, entire or subentire ; flowers pedunculate ; axillary or sub- 
terminal, solitary or cymose-fasciculate (Zrop. America, Asia, and 
Africa). See p. 99. 
75. Eriodendron DC.’—Perianth of Bombax, receptacle more or 
less concave with perigynous insertion. Staminal column outwardly 

1 Spec. 2. Grirr., Notul., iv. 534, t. 595 Gen. 210, n. 43.—Ærione SCHOTT, Melet., 
(Kydia).—Tuw., Enum, Pl. Zeyl., 30 (Kydia). 
2 DC., Prodr., i. 479.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5302, 
—H. BN., in Payer Fam. Nat., 286.-—B. H., 
34,—Campylanthera SCHOTT, loc. cit.— Gos- 
sampinus SCHOnT, loc. cit,, 35.—Ceiba PLUM., 
Gen., t. 32.—GÆRTIN., Fruct., t. 133. 
