MALVACE^. (mallow FAMILY.) 53 



* Carpels 1 -seeded. 

 ■•- Stigmas occupying the inner face of the styles. 



1. MALVA. Carpels beakless. No process within. 



2. CALLIRRUOii. Carpels beaked, and bearing a dorsal process above the seed within. 



•1- -I- Stigmas capitate. 



3. MALVASTRCM. Involucel 2 - 3-leaved. Ovule peritropous-ascending. Radicle inferior. 



4. SIDA. Involucel none. Ovule resupinate-pendulous. Radicle superior. 



* * Carpels 2 - few-seeded. 



5. ABUTILON. Carpels Icelled. Involucel none. 



6. MODlOIiA. Carpels transversely 2-celled. Involucel 3-leaved. 



Tribe. II. XJRENE.^. — Carpels half as many as the stigmas, separating at maturity. 

 Anthers borne above the middle of the column. 



7. PAVONIA. Carpels 5, dry, I-seeded. Involucel 5 - 15-leaved. 



Tribe III. IIIBISCEjS. — Carpels as many as the stigmas, united and forming at ma- 

 turity a loculicidal capsule. Column bearing the anthers throughout, or from above the 

 middle. 



8. KOSTELETZKYA. Cells of the depressed capsule 1-seeded. 



9. HIBISCUS. Cells of the globose or oblong capsule few - many-seeded. 



1. MALVA, L. Mallow. 



Involucel 3-leavcd, persistent. Petals obcordate. Styles 9 - 20, filiform, stig- 

 matic on the inner face. Carpels broadly reniform, beakless, 1-seeded, indehis- 

 cent, disposed in a circle around the central axis, from which they separate at 

 maturity. Embryo nearly annular. Radicle inferior. — Herbs. Leaves i-ound- 

 ed. Flowers axillary, not yellow. 



1. M. rotundifolia, L. Stems several, prostrate; leaves long-petioled, 

 round-cordate, crenate and crenately-lobed ; flowers single or clustered, white 

 veined with purple ; carpels even. — Around dwellings. Introduced. Ij.. 



2. CALLIRRHOii, Nutt. 



Involucel 1 -3-leaved and persistent, or none. Petals wedge-shaped, entire, 

 or crenate. Styles as in Malva. Carpels numerous, with a short and naked 

 beak, and a ligulate dorsal process below the beak Avithin. Embryo curved. 

 Radicle inferior. — Perennial herbs. Leaves palmatcly-lobed, or angled. Flow- 

 ers showy, purple or wliitish. 



1. C. triangulata, Gray. Rough-pubescent; stem ascending from a 

 perpendicular rhizoma, branching above; leaves triangular, coarsely and une- 

 qually crenate, the lowest ones long-petioled and cordate, the upper 3 - .5-lobed ; 

 flowers approximate, panicled, longer than the pedicels ; involucel 3-leaved, the 

 leaves linear; carpels at length 2-valved. (Malva trianguhita, Za/cenifor^/i.) — 

 Dry soil in the upper districts of Alabama to North Carolina and northwestward. 

 July. — Stem 2° -3° high. Flowers 1'- 1 j' wide, purple. 



2. C. Papaver, Gray. Rough with scattered appressed and rigid hairs ; 

 stems low, simple ; leaves 3 - 5-parted ; the lobes oblong or lanceolate, toothed 

 or entire ; flowers few, solitary, axillary, long-peduncled ; involucel 1 - 3-leaved, 

 or none; petals finely crenate ; carpels indehiscent. — Rich open woods. Georgia, 



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