348 XXVI. MALVACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Kydm. 



15. K'VDXA, Hoai. 



Trees with stellate pubescence. Leaves palminerved, usually lobed. 

 Flowers panicled, polygamous. Bracteoles 4-6, leafy, connate at tlie base, 

 accrescent and spreading in fruit. Sepals 6, connate below the middle. 

 Petals 5, obcordate, oblique, longer than the calyx, adnate to the staminal 

 tube. Stamirial-tube divided about the middle into 5 divisions each bearing 

 3 reniform anthers which are imperfect in the female flower. Ovary 

 2-3-celled ; style 3-cleft, stigmas 3 peltate, imperfect in the male flower ; 

 ovules 2 in each cell, ascending. Capsule subglobose, muticous, loculicidaUy 

 3-valved. Seeds reniform, furrowed.— Disteib. Exclusively Indian. 



1. K. calyclna, Roocb. Hort. Beng. 50; Cor. PI. iii. 11, t. 215; Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 188 ; leaves downy beneath, bracteoles oblong downy. Wight Ic. 

 I. 879-80 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 70 ; Dalz. <t Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 24 ; Beddcme Fl. 

 Sylvat. t. 3 ; Wall. Gat. 1176. K. Eoxburghiana, Wight Ic. iii. t. 881 ;. 



Wall. Gat. 1177. K. fraterna, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 216; Fl. Ind. iii. 189;, 

 W. & A. I.e. K. pulverulenta. Ham. in Wall. Gat. 1176. 



Tropical regions of the Himalaya, from Kumaon eastward, and throughout' th& 

 Western Ghats. Biema, Wallich. 



A tree. Leaves 4-5 by 3 in., rouijded, cordate, palmately 7-nerved, more or less lobed, 

 midlobe longest, glabrous above or with thinly scattered hairs, closely felted beneath j 

 petiole 1-2 in. Inflorescence much branched, many-flowered. Bracteoles 4—6, oblong- 

 spathnlate, nearly as long as the calyx, ultimately spreading. Flowers white or pink. 

 Sepals ovate, acute. Petals exceeding the sepals, obcordate. Staminal-tuhe shorte* 

 than the petals, branches opposite to the sepals. — The size and proportion of the parts 

 vary according to the sex of the flower. 



2. K, g'labrescens, Mast. ; leaves suborbicular slightly angled, 

 bracteoles oblanceolate glabrous. 



BaOTAH, Assam, and Malacca, Griffith (all the localities). 



A tree, herbaceous portions sparingly hairy. Leaves 4 by 34 in., palminerved, 

 obscurely lobed, base wedge-shaped ; petiole 24 in. Panicle terminal ; bracteoles 4-5, 

 spreading, accrescent, ultimately 1 in. Sepals lanceolate. Capsule the size of a small 

 pea, shorter tlian the incurved sepals, globose, pubescent. — I have only seen fruiting 

 specimens. 



15.-^ ADANSONXA, Linn. 



Tree with a short thick trunk and very widely spreading branches 

 forming a mushroom-shaped head. Zea^es pubescent beneath when young,, 

 glabrous digitate, deciduous. Flowers solitary, axillary, pendulous, long-* 

 peduncled. Calyx leathery, cup-shaped, 5-cleft, bibracteolate. Petals 5, 

 exceeding the sepals, adnate below to the stamens. Staminal-tube cylin- 

 drical, dividing above into numerous filaments; anthers reniform, 1-ceUed. 

 Ovary 5-10-celled ; style long, exserted, divided into as many stigmatic 

 branches as there are cells to the ovary, stigmas radiating ; ovules many in 

 each cell. i''ntii oblong, woody, indehiscent; with mealy pulp in the 

 inside. Seeds reniform, testa thick, albumen thin, embryo curved, coty- 

 ledons contortupIicate.-^Two species are knovm, one the Baobab, a native 

 of Africa, not truly wild in India, and the other Australian. 



A. BiGiTATA, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 478 ; Gav. Diss. v. 298, t. 15 ; F. <fc A. 

 Prodr. i. 61 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. in. 164; Thwaites Enum. 28 ; Wall. Cat. 1836 ; 

 Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 212. 



Cultivated in various parts of India and Ceylon. — Distkie. Tropical Africa. 



