MALVALS. 135 BYTTNERIADS. 
Natural Order, Byttneriaus; Byttneriacee (V. K., p. 363.) 
Prevailing Quality. Uncertain. 
THEOBROMA. Jussieu. 
Sepals 5. Petals 5, arched at the base, and extended into a strap. Fruit 
fleshy, 5-celled. Seeds lying in buttery pulp. 
1. T. Cacao Linneus.—(Cocoa or Cuocorate Tree.) Fig. 196. 
Leaves quite entire, ovate-oblong, acuminate, smooth and the same colour 
on both sides. 
Habitat. West Indies. 
Quality. Somewhat astringent, oily, nutritious. 
Uses, Forms chocolate with Vanilla, &c. 
Guazuma. Plumier. 
Sepals 5, more or less combined. Petals 5, 2-horned. Capsule woody, 
warted, valveless, 5-celled, pierced by many perforations. 
1. G. ulmifolia Lamarck. 
Leaves when full-grown oblong, unequally toothed, smooth on each side. 
Habitat. West Indies. 
Quality. Mucilaginous, sudorific. j : 
Uses. Sweet succulent fruit, eaten in Brazil ; bark in cutaneous diseases. 
Natural Order, Mallow-warts; Malvacewe (V. K., p. 369.) 
Prevailing Quality. Mucilaginous. 
Auroma. Linneus. 
Calyx 5-cleft, surrounded by a 6-9-cleft involucel. Styles numerous. 
Fruit as in Malva. . : 
1. A. officinalis Linnseus.—(Marsu Mattow. —GuIMAUvE Fr.) ; 
Leaves soft and hoary on each side, the lower 5-lobed, the upper 3-lobed. 
Habitat. Meadows in Europe. 
Quality. Demulcent, pectoral. 4) 
Uses. As Malva sylvestris ; injections in difficult parturition. 
2. A. rosea Cavanilles.—(HotLYHock.) g 
Stem tall, straight, hairy ; leaves cordate, 5-7-angled, crenate, rugose + 
| flowers axillary, sessile, or forming terminal spikes; petals hairy at base. 
Habitat. South of Europe. 
Quality. Flowers mucilaginous, demulcent. Leaves dye blue. 
Uses. “ As the last. 
: Anetmoscuus. Medicus. 
_ Anvolucel of from 8-15 bracts. Carpels many-seeded, Seeds smooth, or 
. hairy along a dorsal line. Corolla spreading flat. : 0 
. ae esculentus Wight and Arnott. Hibiscus esculentus Linn.—(OcHRO. 
-Goxso.) : j 
tem unarmed ; leaves cordate, 5-lobed, toothed ; bracts 10, deciduous ; 
___ ealyxes bursting laterally. 
: hey Both Indies. 
: “ty. Fruit extremely mucilaginous. 
: Use. “In thickening soups ; leaves as poultices. 
