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Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 18; Wall. Cat. 1888, 1, 2, & C to H. Mi 4 . Fl. 
In<l. Bat. i. pfc. 2, 150. Hibiscus populneus^ L. ; Roxb. Hort, Beng, 51; 
Flor. Ind. iii. 190. II. pop idneoides, Roxb. I.e. Malvavucus populneus, 
G&ertn. Fruet. ii. 253, fc. 135. Azanza acuminata, Alefeid Bot. Zeit. 
1861, 21)9. 
In all the provinces, on the sea-shore. Dislrib. Tropics generally. 
6. Bombax, Linn. 
Trees. Leaves digitate, deciduous. Peduncles axillary or subter- 
miiial, solitary or clustered, 1-flowered. Flowers appearing before the 
leaves. Braeteoles 0. Calyx corinceous, cup-shaped, truncate or lobed. 
Petals obovate or oblong, Slamens in 5 bundles opposite the petals : 
filaments numerous ; anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary 5-celled, multi- 
ovulate ; style clavate, stigmas 5. Capsule Ioculicidally 5-valved, valves 
coriaceous, wooly within. Seeds silky, the testa thin, albumen small ; 
cotyledons contort u plicate About 10 species, all tropical and mostly 
American ; 1 in Africa. 
1. B. insist, Wall. PI, As. Rar. i. 71, t. 79, 80; Cat. 1841. A 
tall tree; trunk without prickles; branchlets armed or not; all parts 
jflabrous. Leares 7 9-foliolnle ; leaflets Mib-coriaceotis, obo\ato <,v nb- 
lanceolate, shortly acuminate, attenuate at the base, glaucous beneath ; 
length 5 to 8 in., breadth 2*5 to 3 in. ; petiolules '5 to - 75 in. : petioles 
longer than the leaflets. Flowers 5 or 6 in. long, solitary toward* tho 
end of the leafless branches; peduncles '75 in. long, stout, clavate. 
Calyx I'd in. long, thickly coriaceous, urceolate-glubose, obscurely and 
irregularly lobed, ultimately '2-cleft, sub-glabrous outside, silky iusido. 
Petals fleshy, oblong, obtuse, recurved, internally glabrous, externally 
shortly Bericeoos, red to orange or yellowish Stamens many ; filaments 
fleshy, united for '5 in. above the base into 4 or 5 bundles. Capsule 
oblong, 10 in, long by 1*5 in thick, curved, glabrous. Mast, in Hook. fil. 
Fl. Br. Ind. i. 349; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 130; Journ. As. Soo. Bong. 
1873, ii. p. 61. B.festivum, Wall. Cat. 1841. 
Andamans. Diatrib. Burmah. 
The earliest name of this is B.festivum (IS28). But at p. 89 of 
his Catalogue, Wallieh changed this to B. insigne, under which name 
he figured and described it. It cornea very near to B. mafabaricum t 
DC. ; but Wallieh says it is a much smaller tree, and Kurz says it 
has many more stamens, than the former. 1 include it as an Anda- 
man plant solely on the authority of the late Mr. Kurz, but 1 hav* 
Been no specimen collected by him or by any other person in the 
Andamans. And I havo a strong suspicion that what Kuiv, regarded 
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