eet eee MALVACER. [| Bombax. 
or nearly all in pairs and united at base into 5 or more bundles. 
Ovary 5-celled, with several ovules in each cell; style club-shaped, 
or shortly 5-lobed at top. Capsule woody or coriaceous, loculici- 
dally 5-valved, the cells densely woolly inside. Seeds obovoid or 
globose, envelo in the wool. Albumen thin.—Leaf-shedding 
trees, with digitate leaves. Flowers large, scarlet or white. 
Leaflets on a 10-12 lin. long petiolule ; staminal bundles consisting 
of 15 to 20 strong and thick filaments; petals broader and 
Suometowenexea 5 ee eg B Malabaricum, 
Leaflets decurrent on the 2-3 lin. long petiolule; staminal bundles 
consisting of 50 or more long filiform filaments; petals longer 
and straight, with incurved margins. : ‘ . . B,. insigne. 
. B. Malabaricum, DC.; H.f. Ind. Fl.i. 849; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. t. 82; Brand. For. Fl. 31.—Letpan or deedoo—A tree 
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Has.—Frequent in all lent shedding forests, especially the mixed ones, all 
over Burma from Chittagong and Ava downto T i f 
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| Latin grr ood very light, white, or yellowish-white, coarsely fibrous, 
0 x e, s es no polish. Used for coffins, in 
Hindostan also for light packing boxes, fishermen’s floats, &c. O' = 28 pd. 
Cotton used for stuffing cushions and pillows. Yields the brown mtichi ras 
2. B, insigne, Wall. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 349.—A tree (60—100+ 
40—60 + 5—16), leafless in HS., all parts glabrous, the stem and 
branches unarmed; leaves long-petioled, 7-9-foliolate; leaflets 
2 to 3 lin 
the branchlets; calyx about 14 in. long or somewhat longer, 
urceolate-globular, densely silk-hairy inside, usually shortly and 
