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as JS. insigne is really an undescribed species which Wallich issued as 
1840-2 B of his Catalogue under the name B. malaharicum^ var. albifl&ra. 
His No. 3 of the same name I have not seen. A tree with leaves 
exactly like Wallich r s 1840-4 and with unarmed trunk and branches 
has recently been collected in the little Coco Island by Dr. D. Praia for 
the Calcutta Herbarium. 
2. B. malabaricum, DC. Prod. i. 479. A tree with the general 
chamcters of the last, but much larger ; and with the trunk and branches 
prickly, the leaflets much narrower (lanceolate not obovate) and the 
flowers and fruit smaller. Mast, in Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. i. 349; Kul-z 
Fur. Fl. Hurra, i. 136; Bl. Bijdr 81; Wight 111. t. 29; W. & A. Prodr. 
i. 61 ; Wall. Cat. 1840 (exclude No. 4 and possibly No. 2 B) ; Bed- 
dome Fl. Sylvat. t. 82. tialiiialia mahtlarica, Solicit Mclcteni, 35; 
Thwuiles Euura. 28; Ihih. A (Jibs. Uomb. Fl. 22; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 
pt. 2, 166. Bornbax heptaphylla, Cav. Diss. v. p. 296; Roxb. Horfc. Bong. 
50; Cor. PI. iii. t. 247; PI. Ind. iii. 167, B. Ceiba, Barm. PI. Iud. 145, 
excl. syn. Oossampinus rubra, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x.v. 
Andaman Islands ; common. 
7. Eriodendron, DC. 
Trees. Leaves digitate, deciduous. Flowers appearing before the 
leaves, tufted at the ends of the branches, oinxillary, large white or rose- 
coloured, Utracteoles 0. Calyx enp-shaped, truncate, or 3-5-fid. Petals 
oblong. St annual bundles 5, opposite the petals, connate at the base, 
each bearing 2-3 sinuous or linear anthers. Ovary ovoid, 5-celIed ; style 
cylindrical, dilated, stigma obscurely 5-lobed. Capsule oblong, coria- 
ceous or woody, 5-celled, 5-valved, valves densoly silky within. Seeds 
globose or obovoid ; testa crustaceous, smooth will; silky hairs, albumen 
scanty ; cotyledons contortuplicute. — About eight species — -1 Asiatic and 
African, tbe others American. 
1. 13. ANPRACTUOsr/M, DC. Prod. i. 479. A tall tree, the trunk 
prickly whon young ; branchlets stout, smooth, glaucous. Leaflets 8 or 
9, lanceolate, acuminate, entire or serrulate towards the apex, tbe base 
acute ; glaucous beneath ; length 3 to 4 in., breadth 75 to 1 in., petiolule 
*25 in. broad ; petioles usually longer than the leaflets. Flowers pedun- 
culate, in fascicles of 3 to 8 below the apices of the branches; peduncles 
1 to 2 in. long, minutely bracteate : involucre none. Calyx cup-sliapod, 
with h rounded lobes, glabrous externally, sericeous internally. Petals 
oblfvueeolate, tmuentose externally, glabrous within, 1 to F5 in. long, 
whitish. Filaments shorter than the petals. Capsule oblong, 3 to 5 in. 
long, smoutli. $46ds numerous, sub-ovoid, black. Mast, in Hook. fil. 
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