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Cullenia
Cullenia
is
a genus
of
flowering plants
native
to
India
and
Sri Lanka
. Earlier
classification
schemes
place the
genus
in the kapok-tree
family
, but the
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
places
it in the
mallow family
.
The name is after General
William Cullen
, a
Resident
in the
court
of the
Maharaja of Travancore
who also took an
interest
in
botany
.