1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 49 
as B. insigne is really an undescribed species which Wallich issued as 
1840-2 B of his Catalogue under the name B. malabaricum, var. albijlora. 
His No. 3 of the same name 1 have not seen. A tree with leaves 
exactly like Wallich’s 1840-4 and with unarmed trunk and branches 
has recently been collected in the little Coco Island by Dr. D. Prain for 
the Calcutta Herbarium. 
2. B. malabaricdm, DC. Prod. i. 479. A tree with the general 
characters 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. FI. Br. Ind. i. 349; Kurz 
For. FI. Burm. 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 FI. Sylvat. t. 82. Salmalia malabarica, Schott Meletem, 35 ; 
Thwaites Enum. 28 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 22; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. 
pt. 2, 166. Bombax heptaphylla, Cav. Diss. v. p. 293 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 
50; Cor. PI. iii. t. 247; FI. Ind. iii. 167. B. Geiba, Burm. FI. Ind. 145, 
excl. syn. Gossampinus rubra, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 
Andamau Islands ; common. 
7, EmODENDRON, DC. 
Trees. Leaves digitate, deciduous. Flowers appearing before the 
leaves, tufted at the ends of the branches, or axillary, large white or rose- 
coloured. Bracteoles 0. Calyx cup-shaped, truncate, or 3-5-fid. Petals 
oblong. Staminal bundles 5, opposite the petals, connate at the base, 
each bearing 2-3 sinuous or linear anthers. Ovary ovoid, 5-celled ; style 
cylindrical, dilated, stigma obscurely 5-lobed. Capsule oblong, coria- 
ceous or woody, 5-celled, 5-valved, valves densely silky within. Seeds 
globose or obovoid ; testa crustaceous, smooth with silky hairs, albumen 
scanty ; cotyledons contortuplicate. — About eight species — 1 Asiatic and 
African, the others American. 
1. E. anfractuosum, DC. Prod. i. 479. A tall tree, the trunk 
prickly when young ; branchlets stout, smooth, glaucous. Leaflets 8 or 
9, lanceolate, acuminate, entire or serrnlate towards the apex, the 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-shaped, 
with 5 rounded lobes, glabrous externally, sericeous internally. Petals 
oblanceolate, tomentose externally, glabrous within, l to 1'5 in. long, 
whitish. Filaments shorter than the petals. Capsule oblong, 3 to 5 in. 
long, smooth. Seeds numerous, sub-ovoid, black. Mast, in Hook. fil. 
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