MALVACEÆ. 159 
naked (not annulate), apex divided into 5 elongated branches 2, 
3-antheriferous ; anthers adnate linear or anfractuous ; each branch 
simulating one anther. Germen of Bomba, cells 5, æ-ovulate; style 
at apex stigmatiferous clavate, 5-agonal. Capsule ligneous or coria- 
ceous 5-locular ; seeds «, 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 (47 warm 
regions of the Globe’). 
76. Chorisia H. B. K.°—Perianth of Bombar. 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).’ 
Germen of Bombazx ; cells 5, sometimes incomplete, »-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‘ pedunculate axillary or subracemose ; 
bractlets under flower 2, 3° (Zrop. America).° 
77. Pachira Avs..’—Calyx cupulate, apex truncate or obsolete 
d-dentate. Petals (nearly of Bombax), much longer than calyx, 

1 Gav., Diss., t. 151, 152.—A. S. H., 77, 
Bras, Mer., i. 264, t. 52—Marvr., Nov. Glen. 
apice antheriferi, sed annulus exterior ut in 
Chorisia adest.” (B. H., loc. cit.) 
et Spec., i. t. 96-98.—Wreur, Zcon., t. 400.— 
Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iii. 427.—THW., Enum. 
Pl. Zeyl., 28.—Grises., Fl, Brit. W.-Ind,. 88. 
—A. Gray, Amer. Expl. Exp., i. 182.—Masr., 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., Bot., i. 213.—Tr. & 
Px., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 322.— Bot. 
Mag., t. 3360,—Watp., Rep., i. 880; Ann, ii, 
159 ; iv. 318. 
2 Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 295, t. 485.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 480.—ENDx., Glen., n. 5299.—B. H., 
Gen,, 210, n. 44. 
3 “In C. rosea SEEM. (Bot. Her., 84), co- 
lamnæ stamineæ rami ut in Æriodendro elongati, 
4 Pink or reddish, 
5 A genus scarcely distinct from Ærioden- 
dron. 
6 Spec. 3, 4. A. S. H., Pl. Us. Bras. t. 63; 
Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 266.—Tr. & Px. in Ann. Se. 
Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 321.—Watp., Rep. i. 329; 
Ann., iv. 318. 
7 Guian., 725, t. 291, 292.—J., Gen., 279.— 
LamrK., Dict., iv. 690; Jul, t. 589.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 478.—-ENDL., Gen., n. 5298.—H. Bn., 
in Payer Fam, Nat., 286.—B. H., Gen., n. 41. 
—Carolinea Li. r, Suppl., 51—Spacu, Suit. 
à Buffon, iii, 423.—Scuorr & Enpt, Melet., 35. 
