. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. XIX. MALVACEJ] Bonibax] 4. BOMBAX, Linn.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 349. Deciduous trees with digitate glabrous leaves. Peduncles axillary, 1- flowered, congregated at the ends of ^branch- lets. Calj^x leathery, cup-shaped, splitting irregularly. Staminal tube shortj divided into numerous filaments, longer than tube, each bearing a 1-celled an- ther. Ovary 5-celled, ovules numerous. Cap- sule loculicidal, 5- valved, inside thickly clothed with long silk
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. XIX. MALVACEJ] Bonibax] 4. BOMBAX, Linn.; M. Brit. Ind. i. 349. Deciduous trees with digitate glabrous leaves. Peduncles axillary, 1- flowered, congregated at the ends of ^branch- lets. Calj^x leathery, cup-shaped, splitting irregularly. Staminal tube shortj divided into numerous filaments, longer than tube, each bearing a 1-celled an- ther. Ovary 5-celled, ovules numerous. Cap- sule loculicidal, 5- valved, inside thickly clothed with long silky hairs, in which the seeds are embedded in dense wool. Cotyledons much folded, enclosing the radicle, albumen thin. Species 40-50, chiefly in Central and South America, a few in Africa. 1. B. malabari- cum, DC.; Wight 111. t. 29; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 82.â-Syn. B. licpta- ])hyUt{mj Cav.; Boxb. Cor. pi. t. 247. The Cotton tree, Vern. Simal, shembal^Bmd,; Idel, Kol; b^\ ; Btirla, sauri, Kan. ; Btmjhaj buraga, Tel. ; llJacUy Tarn. Mai.; Let pan ^ Burm. A very large tree, stem generally with large buttresses at the base, wood white, very soft, turning dark on exposure. Branches in whorls of 5-7 spreading nearly horizontally, the stem of young trees covered with sharp conical prickles. Leaflets 5 or 7, lanceolate, 4-8 in. long, common petiole as long as or longer than leaflets. Fl. appearing before the leaves, large, scarlet occasionally white, calyx inside silky tomentose. Petals 2-3 in. long, stellate^ tomentose on both faces. Filaments about 70, much longer than staminal column, the 5 inner stout, forked at the top, each branch bearing an anther some intermediate ones simple, the numerous outer ones at the base united in 5 clusters. Anthers long, afterwards twisted. Capsule oblong, hard, woody 4-5 m. long. Seeds glabrous, embedded in silky wool. ' Subhimalayan tract, from the Indus eastward, ascending to 3,500 ft. Common in both peninsulas and often cultivated. Leafless f
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