50 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. I, 
FI. Br. Ind. i. 350 ; Bl. Bijdr. 81 ; W. & A. Prodr. i. 61 ; Wight Ic. t. 
400 ; Griff. Not. iv. 533 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 22; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. i. pt. 2, 166; Beddome FI. Sylvat. Anal. Gen. t. 4. Wall. Cat. 
1839. Bombax pmtandrum, Linn. Sp. PI. 989; Cav. Diss. v. 293, t. 151 ; 
Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 165. B. orientate, Spreng. Syst. iii. 124. Oeiba 
pentandra, Gsertn. Frnct. ii. 244, t. 133 ; Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soe. 
xv. 126. Eriodendron orientate, Stend. Nomencl. 587 ; Thwaites Enum. 
28; Kurz For. FI. Br. Burm. i. 131. 
In all the provinces. Distrib. Malayan Archipelago, British 
India, West Indies. Often planted. 
8. Dukio, Linn. 
Trees, with entiro coriaceous penni-nerved leaves, scaly beneath 
(except in D. Oxleyanus) . Flowers in lateral cymes : peduncles angular. 
Bracts 2 or l, 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 valvate oblong or rounded. Petals 5, contorted- 
imbricate, spathulate, longer than the sepals. Staminal-tube divided 
into 4-5 phalanges opposite the petals ; filaments many, bearing a 
globose head of sinuous l-celled anthers, or (in I). Oxleyanus) a single 
annular l-celled anther. Ovary usually scaly externally, 4-5-celled ; 
styles connate, stigmas capitate ; ovules many and 2-seriate in each cell. 
Fruit very large, subglobose or oblong, spiny, indehiscent or loculicidally 
5-valved. Seeds arillate ; cotyledons fleshy, often connate. Distrib. 
Malay Peninsula and islands ; speoies 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 
ohovate-ohlong, shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base rounded ; 
both surfaces shining, the upper glabrous, the lower adpressed-Iepidote ; 
main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, thin, slightly ascending; length 4'5 to 6 in., 
bngadth 1’5 to 1'8 in., petiole ’4 to ’5 in. Flowers 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 lepidote, 
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, reniform, compressed. 
Ovary elongate-ovoid, scaly ; style pubescent, as long as the stamens. 
Fruit ovoid-globose, 8 to 1 2 in. long, woody, densely covered with strong 
