MINBU IN UPPER BURMA. 
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65 . Hibiscus schizopetalus Hooker f.(Bot. Mag, pi. 6524) 
Sinbok, cultivated. 
Distribution. — Native of Tropical East Africa. Cultivated 
generally throughout India and Burma, 
38. Tliespesia Corr, 
€6. Tliespesia Lampas Dalz. & Gibs. 
Mon valley near Sidoktaya. 
Distribution. — North-West Frontier, Peninsular and Central 
India, N.-W. Himalaya, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Ceylon, Java, East 
Tropical Africa. 
$7. Tliespesia populnea Corr. 
Pyogingon. A single tree in the village, considered a marvel by 
the villagers on account of the diurnal changing tints of the corolla. 
DISTRIBUTION.— Shores of Bengal and Peninsular India, Anda- 
man islands, also planted in Rajputana, Central India and Burma, 
Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, Africa, Pacific islands. 
39, Gossypium Linn. 
68. Gossypium herbaceum Linn. 
Arracan Yomahs. 
69. Gossypium barbadense Linn. VAR. acuminata. 
Nwamadaung hills. Cultivated by the Chins. The above 
identifications of cotton are provisionally given according to the 
names in the Calcutta Herbarium. 
40. Bombax Linn. 
70 . Bombax malabaricum DC. 
Common along the river valleys. 
DISTRIBUTION.— Throughout the plains and low hills of India aud 
Burma and Andaman Islands, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago. 
71. * Bombax sp. Fruits only seen. Burm. Didok-bin . 
Nwamadaung hills. 
This is certainly not B . malabaricum , and the writer is of 
opinion that it cannot very well be B. insigne Wall. The fruit of 
B. insigne Wall, is described as “ 10 inches by 1 inch, elongated, 
curved at the apex, glabrous.” The fully developed fruit of 
the Nwamadaung hills plant is 5 inches long, with 5 stout 
rounded ridges, its diameter from one ridge to the opposite one 
about 2| inches. Its fruit resembles the fruit of a specimen in the 
Calcutta Herbarium which Kurz had collected in Pegu, and had 
named first B . malabaricum DC. and then Bo insigne Walk The 
