. Cochlospermum.] 13. BIXACE.E. 



FAM. 13. BIXACEJE. 



l'rees or shrub.-: with mucilage canals in the bark (and other 



linute caducous stipules, and usually large flowers which BM 



anicled, regular and 2-sexual. Sepals 4 5, free, hypogynous, 

 :nbrii -ate. Petals 4 5, free, large and coloured. Stamens many. 

 Lnthers 2-celled, opening by short slits or pores. Ovary 1-celled, 

 dth parietal plao 



any. a natropous. Style 



many, sometimes with long hairs, sometimes outer lay* 

 testa arilifovm ami coloured. Albumen copious. Embry 

 curved with more or less foliaeeous cotyledons, which i 

 palminerved. Germination epigeal. 



DC. Hupu, K. ; Hopo, 8. ; Galgal, H. ; Golgol, Beng. ; 

 Konto palas, <>,: ■. Yellow Silk Cotton Tree. 

 A small, straight, very soft-wooded tree, with palmately 3 -5-lobed 



leaves, :; s'diaiu.. an-1 bearing, when leafless, large handsome yellov. 

 Bowers, t 5' diam., which are succeeded by large pear-shaped 





and somewhat shin 

 on 2 parietal placer 



