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15. MALVACEiE. 



[Thespesia, 



2. T. populnea, Oorr. in Ann. Mus. IX. 290 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 345 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bom. FJ. 18 ; Bedd. ¥1. Sylv. t. 63. Bhendy, Tulip or Portia 

 Tree, parascha jhad, H. ; Parascha pipla, Guz. 



Tropical shores of Bengal, Ceylon and both E. & W. Peninsulas. Along 

 the sea-shores of the Konkan and Korth Kanara ; often cultivated as a 

 roadside tree. Fl. C. S. Fr. R. S. A small or medium-sized evergreen 

 tree with smooth, grey bark. Wood fine-grained, tough, durable, dark- 

 coloured, sapwood soft, pale-reddish. Used for gun-stocks, wheels, and 

 for boat-timber ; also for carts and furniture. Bark yields a good fibre 

 and the capsules a yellow dye. The bark and wood contain tannin and a 

 fine red colouring matter. 



4. G-OSSYPIUM, L. 



Herbs, shrubs or low trees. Leaves palmately lobed. Flowers 

 large, yellow with a purple centre or all purplish. Bracteoles 3, large, 

 leafy, cordate, black glandular dotted like the calyx. Calyx cup- 

 shaped, truncate or 5-toothed. Petals convolute or spreading. Ovary 

 5-ce!led ; style clavate 5-grooved with 5 stigmas; ovules many in 

 e^ch cell. Capsule 3-5-valved. Seeds clothed with woolly hairs;, 

 cotyledons leafy, black-dotted, plicate. 



G. Stoeksii, Mast. Fl. Br. I. 1. 346. 



Limestone rocks on the sea-coast of Sind, apparently common near 

 Karachi. Fl. Dec.-Jany. Fr. Feb.-Mar. An interesting plant, being 

 probably the wild form of G. herbaceum, L., and therefore the parent of 

 the di:fferent kinds of Indian cotton. G. herbaceum, Linn., G. barbadense, 

 Linn., and G. arboreum, Linn., are cultivated species. 



5. KYDIA, Roxb. 



Trees. Young leaves, branches, inflorescence, capsule, &c., covered 

 with a grey or reddish stellate tomentum. Leaves palminerved, 

 usually lobed, with a raised gland on the midrib, '75 in, from base. 

 Flowers unisexual. Calyx 5-lobed, persistent, surrounded at the base 

 with the 4-6 leafy bracteoles, which are accrescent in fruit. Petals 5, 

 longer than calyx, attached to the base of the staminal column. 

 Stamens monadelphous ; the tube divided into 5 divisions, each bearing 

 3 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. Capsule subglobose^ 3-valved, Seeds reniform, fur- 

 rowed. 



K. calycina, Roxb. Fl. Ind. IIL 188; Fl. Br. I. 1. 348; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 24 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 3 ; Brandis For. FL 29. Waning, 

 iliya, bhendy, M. ; Bellaka, billu bhendy, K. 



Tropical Himalaya from Kumaon eastwards, Burma and the W. 

 Peninsula along the ghats. Common in deciduous forests on the North 

 Kanara and Konkan ghats. Attains a height of 30 to 40 ft. with a 



