Eriodendron. | MALYACER. 131 
bluntish 2-lobed, finally deeply 2-cleft; petals oblong-lanceolate, 
| lunt, narrowed at base, 5-6 in. long, those of the fallen corollas 
| straight, densely stellate-tomentose outside; staminal bundles con- 
sisting of 50 or.more unequally long filiform filaments; capsules 
oblong, woody, 7-10 in. long, obtusely 5-angular, glabrous. 
Has.—Frequent in the upper mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah and the 
zdamans, up to 3,000 ft. elevation ; also Ava.—Fl. H.S.; Fr. C.S.—1.—SS. = 
1D. 
RemaRxs.—Wood as in the preceding species. 
ERIODENDRON, DC. 
Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, or irregularly 3-5-lobed. Staminal 
bundles 5, united at base, each bearing 2-3 sinuose or linear anthers. 
Ovary 5-celled with several ovules in each cell; capsule woody or 
riaceous, densely woolly inside. Seeds enve oped in the wool; 
albumen very thin or absent.—Armed or unarmed trees with 
digitate leaves. Flowers solitary or fascicled, usually white. 
g pedicels, fase: 
the sears of the fallen leaves and crowded at the end of the branch- 
lets; petals about an in. long, of a thick fleshy texture, densely 
tomentose outside ; calyx thick coriaceous, bell-shaped, irregularly 
5-lobed ; anthers linear, serpentinely bent and variously convolute ; 
capsules oblong, smooth, thick and coriaceous; seeds numerous, 
iss ina fine silky wool and slightly adhering to it. 
Hap.—Here and there cultivated in Pegu and Tenasserim; a single tree 
observed wild in the coast forests of South Tdeen: “i 
the PEMARKS.—Wood light, good for toys. The cotton of the seeds used in 
same way as that of Bombax. Gives also a resin. 
DURIO, L. 
ae divided into 4 or 5 bundles; filaments many, each bearing a globose 
= head of sinuous 1-celled anthers. Ovary 4-5-celled, with many 
_ gyules m 2 series in each cell; styles connate; stigmas capitate. 
Fruit a very large woody prickly capsule loculicidally 5-valved or 
