48 G. Kin g — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 18; Wall. Cat. 1888, 1, 2, & C to H. Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 150. Hibiscus populneus, L. ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 51 ; 
Flor. Ind. iii. 190. H. populneoides, Roxb. l.c. Malvaviscus populneus, 
Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 253, t. 135. Azanza acuminata, Alefeld Bot. Zeit. 
1861, 299. 
In all tlie provinces, on the sea-shore. Distrib. Tropics generally. 
6. Bombax, Linn. 
Trees. Leaves digitate, deciduous. Peduncles axillary or subter- 
minal, solitary or clustered, 1-flowered. Flowers appearing before the 
leaves. Bracteoles 0. Calyx coriaceous, cup-shaped, truncate or lobed. 
Petals obovate or oblong. Stamens in 5 bundles opposite the petals : 
filaments numerous ; anthers reniform, 1-celled. Ovary 5-celled, rnulti- 
ovulate ; style clavate, stigmas 5. Capsule loculicidally 5-valved, valves 
coriaceous, wooly within. Seeds silky, the testa thin, albumen small ; 
cotyledons contortuplicate. About 10 species, all tropical and mostly 
American ; 1 in Africa. 
1. B. INSIGNE, Wall. PI. As. Rar. i. 71, t. 79, 80; Cat. 1841. A 
tall tree ; trunk without prickles ; branehlots armed or not ; all parts 
glabrous. Leaves 7-9-foliolate ; leaflets sub-coriaceous, obovate or ob- 
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 towards the 
end of the leafless branches ; peduncles '75 in. long, stout, clavate. 
Calyx 1'5 in. long, thickly coriaceous, urceolate-globose, obscurely and 
irregularly lobed, ultimately 2-cleft, sub-glabrous outside, silky inside. 
Petals fleshy, oblong, obtuse, recurved, internally glabrous, externally 
shortly sericeous, red to orange or yellowish. Stamens many ; filaments 
fleshy, united for '5 in. above the base iuto 4 or 5 bundles. Capsule 
oblong, 10 in. long by 1'5 in thick, curved, glabrous. Mast, in Hook. til. 
FI. Br. Ind. i. 349 ; Kurz For. FI. Burm. i, 130 ; Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
1873, ii. p. 61- B. festivum, Wall. Cat. 1841. 
Andamans. Distrib. Burmali. 
The earliest name of this is B. festivum (1828). But at p. 89 of 
his Catalogue, Wallich changed this to tt. insigne, under which name 
he figured and described it. It comes very near to B. malabaricum, 
DC.; but Wallich says it is a much smaller tree, and Kurz says it 
has many more stamens, than the former. I include it as an Anda- 
man plant solely on the authority of the late Mr. Kurz, but 1 have 
seen no specimen collected by him or by any other person in the 
Andamans. And 1 have a strong suspicion that what Kurz regarded 
