Kydia
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Kydia. (Col. Robert Kyd, founder of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, died 1794). Malvaceae. Oriental trees, one of which has been cultivated in southern Florida and southern California. Plants with stellate pubescence: lvs. entire or lobed, palmi-nerved : fls. polygamous, in panicles, white or pink, ornamental ; sepals 5, joined at the base, subtended by 4-6 leafy bracts which enlarge in fr. ; petals 5, exceeding; the calyx and joined to the stamen-tube; staminal tube divided about the middle into 5 divisions, each bearing 3 anthers, which are imperfect in the pistillate fls. : fr. a 3-valved caps. — Two or three species in India.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963