Kydia
(named after Colonel Robert Kyd, who died in 1794, founder and first Director of the Calcutta Botanic Garden). ORD. Malvaceoe. A small genus (two or three species) of slender, stellato-tomentose, stove evergreen trees, natives of India. Flowers in long panicles. Leaves palmate-nerved, entire or lobed. The species thrive in a well-drained compost of sandy peat and fibry loam. Cuttings of half-ripened shoots will root in sand, under a bell glass, in heat.
K. calycina (large-calyxed). fl. white or pink; involucel four-leaved, much longer than the calyx. l. rounded-cordate, palmately seven-nerved. 1818. (B. F. S. 3.) K. fraterna (brotherly). fl. white; involucel six-leaved, shorter than the calyx. 1823.