Tow fete een Sey 
Eriodendron. | STERCULIACEA. 271 
appearing before the leaves. Calyx cupular, coriaceous, irregularly 
bursting into 3-7-lobes; bracteoles obsolete but ca alyx and peduncle 
marked with 2-3 scars. Petals 5, adnate below to staminal tube. 
Stamens numerous, connate below in a tube, dividing upwards 
more or less complicately into 5 usually again subdivided pips Be 
ultimate filaments all with 1-celled or occasion nally the series next 
the style with 2-celled anthers. Ovary 5-celled, pre filiform ; 
stigmas 5, often very minute; ovules in each cell numerous. 
Fruit a 5-valved capsule, valves woody or coriaceous, woolly 
within. Seeds globose, embedded in the woolly packing derived 
from the endocarp ; testa thin; albumen scanty. 
197. Bompax NE Bere DC; Bi dh.  Eodiicsegeicws heepha 
phyllum 167. 
In all a provinces, very comm 
A prickly stemmed tree with bisbiteana base. 
Vernac. Simal. The Red Cotton-tree. 
104. Eriodendron DC. 
Trees; trunk armed with prickles ; leaves digitately compound, 
deciduous, Flowers tufted at ends of branches or axillary, 
Ppearing before the leaves; bctoles obsolete. Calyx cup- 
shaped, truncate. Petals 5, white. Stamens few, 1-seriate, united 
below in a tube, divided above into ig or more thick filaments 
bearing 2-celled or rar rely 1-celled anthers with sinuate lobes. 
Ovary ovoid, 5-loculayr ; style cylindric, dilated, stigma obscurely 
5-lobed. Fruit an oblong 5-valved capsule, valves coriaceous, 
Woolly within. Seeds globose, embedded in the woolly packing 
derived from the endocarp ; testa thin; albumen scanty. 
198. Ex1openpRon anrractuosum DC.; F. B. I. i. 350; E. D. 
E. 
beset with prickles. Beng. Swet simal. The Kapok, or 
White Cotton-tree. 
Order XXIV. STERCULIACE. 
en or shrubs, rarely climbing, or herbs, often stellate-haired ; 
‘auer bark fi fibrous, wood soft, juice mucilaginous. Leaves alter- 
