MALVACEAE 847 
HIBISCEAE 
Styles en A. Spreading: seeds usually reniform 
Cap as long E broad or much longer, "tie cavities 
many-s 
Bractlets of "the ‘involucel dis 
Calyx not bladdery, bc unis the base of the 
capsule. persistent or deciduous. 
eB cup-like, persistent, nearly equally 5- 
13. HIBISCUS. 
Calyx spathe-like, split on one side and decidu- 
ous about the base 14. ABELMOSCHUS. 
ere bladdery-inflated, scarious and conspicuously 
ned. 15. TRIONUM. 
Br ace of the involucel united into a lobed cup. 16. PARITI. 
Capsule much oe e oe 1-seeded. 17. KOSTELETZKYA. 
Styles united: seed not re 
Bractlets of the invotueels enire rather inconspicuous. 
“Se n wholly ted or nearly so: capsule inde- 
18. THESPESIA. 
Se epals e m united at the base: capsule loculicidal. 19. CIENFUEGOSIA. 
Bractlets.of the involucels laciniate, conspicuous. 20. GOSSYPIUM 
ABUTILON [Tourn.] Mill Herbs, shrubs, or rarely trees.  Leaf- 
T de toothed, or lobed.  Involueel wanting. Sepals 5, he below 
Petals 5, often yellow. Carpels 5-30, beaked at maturity.—About 100 species: 
mostly in ird regions.— INDIAN-MALLOWS.—The bark yields a CUN The 
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plants, especially the flowers, are mucilaginous. 
caves a Rud more: fruit hirsute at the top: mature carpels short-beaked or merely 
ate. 
Plant npud petals yellow. 1. A. Abutilon. 
Plant perennial: p. pink, salmon-pink, or red, or yellow 
above a purple 
Petals yellow apoE purple base: mature carpels less 
than 15 mm. long: seed merely minutely ae 2. A. hirtum. 
Petals pink, salmon-pink or red: carpels mostly o 
. long; seed hirsute. 3. A. pauciflorum. 
Carpels 10 o or fewer: fruit finely pubescent or puberulent at the 
top: mature carpels slender-beaked. . A. permolle., 
1. A. Abutilon (L.) n sby. Stem 3-18 dm. tall, velvety-pubescent: leaf- 
blades a to ovate or reniform- orbicular, 9- 30 em. long: calyx-lobes 
ruptly pointe 5 
LEAF.)—Roadsi sides, ve grounds, : = waste- 
places, various provinces, Fla. to pes 
and Me. Nat. of Asia c (W. I. y 
A. hirtum Sweet. sd < 3.5 dm 
a ety-canescent, and what villou 
hirsute: leaf -blades pa pn suborbicular, 
2-15 em. long: Po ins acute or acumi- 
nate: petals 15-20 mm. long: carpels 8—10 
mm. long. Coastal er pen. Fla. and the 
Keys.—(F. I., E. I.)—All year. 
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. pauciflorum St. Hil. Stem 9-40 dm : 
a hirsute: p blades AN. to suborbieular, 5-8 em. long: calyx-lobes 
acuminate: petals 20-25 . long: earpels 15-17 mm. long. [A. pedunculare 
H.B. 2: prasides pinelands, and a Aros -places, pen. Fla. and the Keys.— 
(W. I., S. A.)—A1 yea 
4. A. permolle (Willd.) Sweet. Stem 5-16 dm. tall, velvety-tomentose: 
leaf-blades ovate, 2.5-10 cm. long: petals yellow, 10-15 mm. long: carpels 
