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2. BOMBAX, Linn. 1753. 



{Eriotheca, Schott and Endl., 1832 ; Salmalia Schott. and Endl., 1852 ; 

 Pachira,Aubl., Carolinea, L.) 



1. B. malabaricum, D.C. — Point Charles, G. F. Hill (3rd Series, 18), 

 14/8/1913. Recorded. Careening Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 



Kapok or Cotton Tree. Silk cotton tree. Yields kapok. 



Camptostemon Schultzii, Masters ; recorded from -North Australia in Nat. 

 Herb. Census. 



STERCULIACEai. 



Anthers 5 to 15, sessile or stipitate, surroundiag the ovary at the top of a 

 column or gynophore. 



Flowers unisexual or polygamous. No petals. Anthers sessile. No 

 staminodia. Fruit-carpels separate, sessile or stipitate. Trees. 

 Leaves simple or digitate. (Tribe Sterculieoe). 

 Seeds free. — 8. Sterculia. 



Seed enclosed by and united to the inner waU of the fruit. — 

 9. Brachychiton. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite. Petals 5, clawed. Anthers on short fila- 

 ments, surrounding or alternating with 5 teeth of the column or 

 stamiaodia. Leaves simple. (Tribe Helicterece). — 7. HeUcteres. 

 Stamens 5, united at the base in a short cup or ring, or rarely free, with or 

 without intervening staminodia, and surrounding the sessile ovary. 

 Petals flat, longer than the calyx. 



Stamens 5, united in a cup, with 5 intervening elongated flat 



staminodia. — 1. Melhania. 

 Stamens 5, united at the base without intervening staminodia. 

 (Tribe Hermanniee). 

 Ovary 5-celled. — 2. Melochia. 

 Ovary 2-celled. — 3. Dicarpidium. 

 Ovary of 1 1 -celled carpel. — 4. Waltheria. 

 Petals with a short, broad, very concave base, and a sessile or 



stipitate lamina. (Tribe Buettneriece). — 5. Rulingia. 

 Petals small and scale-hke or none. (Tribe Lasiopetalece) . — 6. Kerau- 

 drenia. 



1. MELHANIA, Foesk. 



1. M. incana, Heyne. — Recorded. York Sound, Cygnet Bay, and 

 Dampier's Archipelago, A. Cunningham ; Upper Victoria River and Sturt's 

 Creek, F. v. Mueller ; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Albert 

 River, Hemie. 



2. MELSCHIA, Linn. 1732. 



( Aleurodendron, Reinw., 1828 ; Altheria, Thou., 1806 ; Anomorpha, 

 Karst., 1844 ; Glossospermum, Wall, 1831 ; Lochemia, Am., 1839 ; Meluchia, 

 Medic, 1791 ; MoliicMa, Medic, 1787 ; Physocodon, Turcz., 1858 ■,Polychlaena, 

 0. Don., 1838 ; Riedlea, Vent., 1807 ; Visenia, Houtt., 1777 ; Physodium, 

 Prsl. ; Mougeotia, Kth.) 



Capsule very angular, pyramidal, much longer than the calyx. — 2. M. 

 pyramidata. 



Capsule small, globular. — ^1. M. corchorifolia. 



