50 
Fl. Br. Ind. i. 350 ; Bl. Bijdr. 81 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 6 L ; Wight Io. t. 
400; Griff. Not. iv. 533; Dalz, & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 22; Miq. Fl. Ind. 
Bat. i. pt. 2, 166 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. 4. Wall. Cat. 
1839. Bombax pent andr urn , Linn. Sp. PL 989; Cav. Diss v. 293, t. 151 ; 
Koxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 1(35. B. orientals, Spreng. Syst. iii. 124. Ceiba 
pentandra, Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 244, t. 133; Hara. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xv. 126. Fjt hnhnulron orientate, Steud. Nomencl. 587; Thwaites l^unm. 
28; Kurz For, Fl. Br. Burra. i. 131, 
In all the provinces. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, British 
India, West Indies. Often planted. 
8. Duiuo, Linn. 
Trees, with entire coriaceous penni-nerved leaves, scaly beneath 
(except in D. Qxleyauus). Fhtoers in lateral cymes: peduncles augular. 
Bracts 2 or 1, connate into a cup, or distinct below, tips free, deciduous. 
Calyx bell-shaped, leathery, like the bracteoles densely scaly, the sepals 
distinct, or 5-fid, lobes valvatc oblong or rounded. Petals 5, coutortod- 
imbricate, epathulate, longer than the sepals. Staminal-tubv divided 
into 4-5 phalanges opposite the petals; filaments many, bearing a 
globose head of sinaous l-celled anthers, or (in D. Oxleyanus) a single 
annular l-celled anther. Ovary usually scaly externally, 4-5-colled ; 
styles connate, stigmas capitate ; ovules many and 2-seriate in each cell. 
Fruit very large, subgloboae or oblong, spiny, indeiuscenfc or loculicidally 
5-valved. Seeds arillate ; cotyledons fleshy, often connate, Distrib. 
Malay Peninsula and islands ; species 3. 
1. D. Zibethinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. xiii. p. 581. A tall tree ; 
young branches thin and, like all the soft parts except the upper 
surfaces of the leaves, minutely scaly. Leaves elliptic-oblong, rarely 
obovuto-oblnug, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base rouudod ; 
both surfaces shiniug, the upper glabrous, the lower ad pressed- lepidofce ; 
main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, thin, slightly ascending; length 4"5 to 6 in., 
breadth 1*5 to 1"8 in., petiole '4 to *5 in. Flowera 2 in. long, 2 to 3 in. 
in diam., on long slender pendulous dichotomus peduncles in fascicles 
from the stem and larger branches, globose in bud : peduncles lepidole, 
3 in. long, the bracts embracing the calyx and shorter than it. Calyx 
tubular, ventricose at the base, the limb with 5 or 6 short broad teeth. 
Petals twice as long as the calyx, spathulate. Stamens in 5 bundles 
united only at the very base ; the filaments in each bundle united for 
one-fourth of their length ; anthers glomerulate, reoiform, compressed. 
Ovary ulon gate-ovoid, scaly ; style pubescent, as long as the stamens. 
Fruit ovoid-glubose, 8 to 12 in. long, woody, densely covered with strong 
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