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GENUS II. ERIODENDRON. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Erion, wool, and Dendron, a tree, the capsules 
being filled with cotton. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx irregularly 5-lobed: lobes usually in pairs: 
petals united at the base, and cohering to the. staminiferous column< 
filaments jointed at the base, but collected upwards into 5 slender 
bundles, each bearing 2~8 -bent anthers: style crowned by a 5-6- 
cleft stigma: capsule and seeds as in Salmalia. 
(1) E. anrracruosum. (Dec.) 
Ident. W.&. A. prod. I. p. 61.—Dec. prod. I. p. 479. 
_ Syn. Bombax pentandrum, Linn. Roxb, fl. Ind. III. p. '65.— 
Ceiba pentandra, Gaertn. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. II. t,400.—Rheede Mal, III. t. 49, 51. 
—Rumph. Amb. I. t. 80. 
Spec. Cuar. Tree: trunk prickly at the base: leaves palmate: 
leaflets 5-8, quite eritire or slightly serrate towards the apex, lan- 
ceolate, mucronate: flowers whitish. 
Peninsula. Bengal. Hindostan. Flowering in February and 
March, 
GENUS IV. STERCULIA. 
Monecia Monadelphia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Latin word Stereor, ‘in -allusion -to the fetid 
smell of the flowers of some of the species. 
Gen. Cuan. Trees, with simple or compound leaves: calyx 5-« 
lobed: anthers 10-20, in one or two rows, solitary or in threes: 
ovary stalked or sessile: follicles 5, distinct, 1-eelled, 1 or many- 
seeded, dehiscent : seeds with oily albumen. 
m (1) S. atata. (Roxd.) 
Ident. Don’s Mill. I. p. 516.—Roxb. fl..Ind. III. p. 182. 
Syn. Pterygota Roxburghii, Schott. .§ Endl. 
‘Engrav. Roxb. Cor. III. t.-287. 
Srec. Cuan. Tree: leaves broad, ovate, acuminated, quite en- 
-tire, cordate at the base: sepals reflexed, long-lanceolate, rusty on 
the outside: racemes axillary, solitary, ‘shorter than ‘the petioles: 
flowers largish, rusty-coloured, streaked with crimson and yellow. 
Silhet. Chittagong. Flowering in February and March, 
