148 MALVACEA-. [CI. 13. 



with Stipulas. Flowers opposite to the alternate 

 Leaves, axillary at the opposite ones." 



Geranium, fig-. 31-35, from which are now so satis- 

 factorily separated Erodium and Pelargonium., fig. 

 227, composes, with Monsunia, the whole of this 

 Order. Tropceolum, fig. 228, Impatiens {Balsamina 

 Juss.) and Oxalis are subjoined as related to those 

 genera. In the first I confess myself unable to discern 

 any affinity whatever with them, or to form any idea 

 to what tribe it belongs. Impatiens is surely, as Jussieu 

 hints, p. 237, more akin to his Papaveracece, Ord. 62. 

 O.valis I have long ago, Engl. Bot. t. 762, proposed 

 removing to the Rutacece, see Ord. 81. 



Ord. 74. Malvaceae. "Calyx in 5 segments, 

 more or less deep, either simple, or accompanied by 

 an external Calyx, of 1 or many leaves. Petals 5, 

 equal, either distinct and hypogynous, or connected 

 at the base, and united to the lower part of the tube 

 of the Stamens, which are hypogynous, and either 

 definite or indefinite. Their Filaments are either 

 united, almost all the way up, into a tube, closely em- 

 bracing the Style, and nearly as long, which bears the 

 Petals at it's base, and is laden, at or about the top, 

 with Anthers, each supported by it's own Filament, 

 rarely sessile : or the Filaments are merely combined 

 into a sort of cup, whose segments either all bear one 

 or more Anthers, or some of them are without any. 

 Gerrnen one, in some instances stalked. Style mostly 



