28 XXII. MALVACER. 
along the inner face. Fruit of many reniform, dry, 1-seeded, 
separable carpels.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 158. 
_ Annuals or perennials, natives chiefly of the northern hemisphere. A, 
Ludwigii, Linn., a hispid, much-branched annual, with nearly glabrous, 
deeply 5-lobed leaves, and axillary white flowers, occurs at the Orange River. 
A. Burchellii, DC., an endemic species, is unknown to me. 
2. MALVA, Linn. 
Tnvolucel 3-bracted, persistent. Staminal column bearing 
anthers at the multifid summit. Ovary of many carpels ; 
styles as many as the carpels, stigmatose along the mner 
face; ovules solitary. Fruit of many dry, 1-seeded, hard- 
shelled, indehiscent, separable carpels; seed filling the cavity. 
—Fl. Cap. i. p. 159. 
Herbs, natives of temperate climates. M. parviflora, Linn., a prostrate 
procumbent plant, with long-petioled, reniform, bluntly 5-7-lobed leaves, 
and small, clustered, subsessile, axillary flowers (a European weed), occurs 
on roadsides and in waste places. 
3. MALVASTRUM, A. Gray. 
Involucel 3-bracted or wanting. Styles capitellate. Other 
characters as in Malva.— Fl. Cap. i. p. 159. . 
Herbs or small shrubs, known from Malva by the capitate stigmas. 
Leaves lobed, stipuled. Flowers axillary or racemose. About 15 South 
African species, dispersed. 
4. SPH ARALCEA, St. Hil. 
TInvolucel of 3 (or 2) narrow bracteoles, or monophyllous 
and 3-fid. Staminal column and stigmas as in Malvastrum. 
Ovules 2-8 in each carpel. Fruit of many compressed, 2- 
valved, dehiscing, 2—3-seeded carpels, separating at maturity 
from a central torus— Fl. Cap. 1. p. 165. Also Spheroma, 
Harv. l.c. p. 166. 
Herbs or shrubs, with the habit of Malvastrum.—4 South African species, 
natives of the Western and Northern districts ; 2 have 3-leaved and 2 have 
3-fid involucels, the latter constituting the subgenus Spheroma. 
5. SIDA, Linn. 
TInvolucel 0. Staminal column antheriferous at its mul- 
tifid summit. Ovary ‘of 5-15 carpels; styles 5-15; stigmas 
capitellate ; ovule solitary, pendulous. Fruit of 5-15 1-seeded 
carpels, dehiscent at the summit and at length separating ; 
seed 3-cornered, suspended.—#V. Cap. i. p. 166. 
An immense tropical or subtropical genus, very various in aspect. 5 spe- 
cies in the Eastern district and at Natal, of which 2 are endemic, the others 
subtropical weeds.—Leaves entire or lobed, often penninerved. Flowers 
small, yellow or white. 
