78 XIX. MALVACEAE [Bombax 



armed. Fl. scarlet or white, petals 5-6 in. long. Stamens 400 to 600. Capsule glabrous, 

 7-10 in. long. 3. B. anceps, Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinch. t. 175. Pegu (Didu Lefipan,Kokye), 

 Shan hills, Upper Burma, Coehinchina. Fl. white, petals 3 in. long, pubescent on both 

 faces. Stamens about 350, staminal tube J in. long. Style glabrous. B. eambodiense, 

 Pierre I.e. t. 174, has a hairy style. 



Adansonia digitata, Linn., the Baobab or 3IonJcey bread tree, indigenous in tropical 

 Africa, and often cultivated, is a large tree with a disproportionately thick trunk, 

 rapidly tapering upward and divided into large limbs. Leaves digitate, leaflets 5 or 7, 

 lanceolate, downy beneath. Fl. large, white, staminal tube thick, longer than the 

 free portion of filaments. Anthers linear, contorted. Fruit pendulous, oblong-obovoid, 

 8-12 in. long, filled with tough fibres and a mealy slightly acid pulp, in which the 

 kidney-shaped brown hard shining seeds are immersed. 



Durio zibethinus, Linn., the Doorian {Duyin, Burm.), indigenous in the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, is cultivated in Tenasserim. Leaves entire, penninerved, elliptic-oblong, both 

 surfaces shining, the upper glabrous, the lower clothed with orbicular scales. Fl. 2 in. 

 long, on pendulous dichotomous panicles, mostly from the old wood, on stem and 

 branches. Inflorescence, involucre and calyx clothed with shining orbicular scales. 

 Bracteoles more or less connate, calyx leathery, 5 lobes on a short tube. Petals 5, 

 spathulate. Staminal tube divided into 4-5 bundles, filaments numerous, each bearing 

 several anther cells on a globose fleshy connective. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 8-12 in. long, 

 densely covered with large smooth pyramidal prickles. Seeds pale yellow, embedded in 

 a thick cream-coloured pulp (the confluent arilli) of delicious taste but offensive 

 smell. 



5. CULLENIA, Wight; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 350. 



C. excelsa, Wight Ic. t. 1761, 62. The only species. Bedd. Manual t. 

 iv. fig. 3. Vem. Veclupla, Tarn. ; Karayarii, Mai. 



A tall tree, wood moderately soft, not durable. Young shoots covered with 

 peltate scales. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, entire, penninerved, caudate-acumi- 

 nate, glabrous above, covered beneath with silvery or orange-coloiu-ed peltate 

 scales. Stipules 0. Fl. reddish-brown, in large clusters on the old wood. 

 Bracteoles connate into a tube splitting irregularly into 3-5 lobes. Calyx tubu- 

 lar, obscurely 5-lobed, as well as bracteolar tube completely covered with large 

 peltate scales, petals 0. Staminal tube exserted, divided into 5 filiform segments, 

 each segment bearing along its length numerous minute anthers in globose 

 clusters. Ovary 5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell. Style hairy, longer than 

 stamens, stigma globose. Fruit 4—5 in. long, densely covered with long 

 prickles, valves 3-5. Seeds few, 1J- in. long, testa hard, shining, brown, 

 nearly covered by a large fleshy white arillus. Cotyledons flesh}', no albu- 

 men. 



Western Ghats 'up to 4,000 ft., from Coorg southwards. Fl. H. S. Ceylon, moist 

 region, 2,000-5,000 ft. Common. 



6. KYDIA, Roxb. ; Fl. Brit. Jnd. i. 348. 



Fl. numerous, male and bisexual, in large terminal panicles. Bracteoles 

 4—6, leafy, connate at the base, in fruit accrescent and spreading. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, 5-lobed. Petals 5, longer than calyx, attached by their claws to the 

 base of staminal column. Staminal tube divided into 5 linear segments, 3-8 

 .sessile anthers at the end of each segment, style 3-cleft. Capsule globose, 

 3-celled, opening loculicidally, 3-seeded. Species 2, Indian. 



1. K. calycina, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 215 (the bisexual plant) ; Wio-ht Ic. t. 

 879, 880.— Syn. K. fraterna, Roxb. I.e. t. 216 (the male plant); K. Rox- 

 burghiana, Wight Ic. t. 881. Vem. Pula, puli, patlia, Hind. ; Bargcih, 

 Baranga, Centr. Prov. (N. C.) : Koixisia, Uriya ; Waning, Iliya, Mar. : 

 Bcllaka, Bench', Kan. ; Potri, j)<rarf/A:?, Tel. ; Tabo, Dwaldk, Myethlwa, 

 Burm. 



A large shrub or small tree, wood greyish-white, soft, no heartwood, medul- 



