Malvaceae, Hallow Family. 
Herbs or shrubs with alternate palmately veined or lobed leaves 
bearing stipules. Flowers perfect, regular, Sepals 5, more or less 
united, persistent, valvate, often subtended by a whorl of sepal-like 
bracts. Petals 5, convolute,. Stamens numerous, monadelphous, forming 
e column around the styles and more or less united at the base to the 
petals, Pistils several, appearing as one, the ovaries more or less 
united into a ring and Separating at maturity or forming a capsule 
with several chambers, 
© Style branches filiform, not capitate; carpels falling 
4 apart at maturity, l-seeded, indehiscent 
2 Bractlets none; carpels 5-9 ), Sidalcea 
2. Bractlots S subtending the calyx; carpels numerous 2. Malva 
——x, 
© Style branches capitate; carpels remaining joined at 
4 maturity, l-s-seeded, dehiscent 3 Sphaeralcea 
