270 BENGAL PLANTS. 
staminal column. Stamens numerous, united in a tube, 5-t 
at the me and giving off below the top numerous antl 
filamen Ovary 4-5-locular ; style clavate, 
ered ovules in each loculus few. Fruit a joule C 
or stibinttebiced Seeds glabrous or tomentose. 
A tree with glabrous leaves; young branches and unripe capsules 
with rusty-coloured scales ...........«...-«.¢ssesssscescsepassaananunll D0 
A shrub with leaves sparingly pilose above, tomentose beneath; ¥ 
branches stellate-tomentose, unripe capsules densely hirsute...... 
194. THEsPesia poputnea Corr.; F. B. I. i. 845; E. D. T 
Hibiscus populneus F. I. iii. 190. 
Sundribuns, plentiful ; elsewhere very often as a 
- 387. Hibiscus a F. I. iii. 198. 
Behar ; Chota N 
A small bush. vali ‘Reabapelt 
102. Adansonia Linn. 
Trees, with short thick trunk, bulbous below and with sp! 
solitary, long peduncled, pendulous. Calyx cupular, 
5-cleft, 2-bracteolate. Petals 5, adnate at base to th 
co! ens numerous, connate in a cylindric tube gi 
at the on many antheriferous filaments. Ovary 5-10 
style long, exserted, divided into as ses branches as there 
radiating; ovules in each cell numerous 
oblong: woody, velvety outside, Gidahingente Seeds reniform, 
a thick testa and scanty albumen, embedded in a mealy pulp: 
96. ApaNsonia vigrrara Linn.; F. I. iii. 164; F. Be L* 
E.D. A. 455, 
Planted here and there, especially in the westerD 
parts and especially near the tombs of Mussalman® 
3 thick-based spreading tree. Vernac. Gorakh-amli. 
aobab, 
103. Bombax Linn. 
Wed stdin armed with prickles; leaves agitate 
deciduous. Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary 
