NOTES ON CEIBA. 178 v.-c. 47 on the authority of " Melvill cat." I mention it here to correct Bot. Record Club Report for 1883, where on p. 6 the above find stands reported by me for Denbighshire — in confirmation of queried record. This must be withdrawn. NOTES ON CEIBA. By James Britten, F.L.S., and Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. The following notes have been drawn up in the course of a revision of the material in the British Museum Herbarium : we have also consulted the specimens at Kew. The three species described do not correspond with any specimens or descriptions we have seen, and we therefore suppose them to be new. A note on the synonymy of the one species common to both hemispheres is prefixed, and an arrangement of the genus is appended. Ceiba Adans. Fam. PL ii. 399 (1763). C. Casearia Medic. Malven-Familie, 16 (1787). C. pentandra Gaertn. Fruct. ii. t. 133 (1791) ; K. Schum. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xii. 3, 209 (1886). Bomhax pentcmdnun L. Sp. PI. 511 (1753); Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 191, t. 176, fig. 70 (1763). Eriodendron anfractuosurn DC. Prodr. i. 479 (1824), etauct. plur. Bomhax orientate Spreng. Syst. iii. 124 (1826). Bombax occidentale Spreng. I.e.* Gossampinus alhm Hamilt. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. 126 (1826). Bomhax guineense Thonn. in Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. ii. 76 (1827). Eriodendron carihcBum G. Don in Loud. Hort. Brit. 292 (1830). Eriodendron guineense G. Don, I. c. Eriodendron occidentale G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 613 (1831) ; Kosteletzky, AUgem. Med.-Pharm. Flora, iv. 1876(1835); Tr. & PI. in Ann. Sci. Nat. s6r. 4, xvii. 322 (1862). Gossampinus Rumphii Schott & Endl. Meletem. 35 (1832). Enodendron orientale Kostel. I. c. 1875 (1835). Eriodendron pentandrum Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xliii. ii. 113 (1874). Xylon pentandrum 0. Kuntze, Eevis. Gen. Plant. 75 (1891). C. Schottii, sp. n. Arbor ? Foliola digitatim disposita. Foliola (immatura?) oblanceolata vel oblonga, apice acuta vel subacuminata mucronata rarius emarginata ad basin attenuata utrinque sparsissime pilis albidis obtecta, margine integra subtus subpallidiora, nervo medio prominente. Petiolus communis strictus,
- Sprengel, who first separated the Old World and New World forms, also
refers to his occidentale B. mompoxense H.B. K. v. 300 (1821), but Mr. Jackson keeps this distinct. It was originally described from imperfect material, the flowers and fruits being unknown, and no further light, so far as we are aware, has been thrown upon it.
