OO XXIV. ANCISTUOCLADACE.'E. 



veined, narrowed at the base and with subrepand margins ; petioles very 

 short or 0. Flowers small, very caducous, in branched panicles ; corolla 

 about equalling the calyx. Calyx-lobes enlarged in fruit, unequal, 

 l|-2|ia. long, obovate, cuneate, with prominently and closely reticulate 

 veins. Petals small, white, ovate-oblong. Stamens 10, alternately 

 shorter. Fruit small, surmounted by 5 wings (accrescent calyx-lobes). 

 Fl. B. 1. V. 1, p. 299 ; Grab. Cat. p. 2S ; Dalz. & dibs. p. 34 ; Gilg, iu 

 Engl. & Prantl, Pflauzenf. v. 3, part G, p. 275, fig. 129, a ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. p. 17; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 126.— 

 Flowers : Mar. Veen. Kardal. 



Pretty common on the Ghats. Konkan : Stoclsl, Law \ ; Matherau, Coole\, 

 Woodrotv !, Mac/iai/hfcn ! ; Mira Donger (near Pen), Dalzell cj- Gibson ; Ghats in the 

 Thana district, Woodrow. Deccan: ravines at Khandala, Graham; Parghdt, Graham. 

 S. M. Country: Eauighat, Dalzell cj'- Gibso7i. Kanaka: in evergreen forests of N. 

 Kanara, Talbot ; Divimana (N. Kanara), Woodrow. 



Ordek XXV. MALVACE.S]. 



Herbs, shrubs, rarely soft-wooded trees with tenacious inner bark, 

 often with stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, frequently palmi-nerved, 

 entire, toothed or lobed ; stipules free, sometimes caducous. Flowers 

 irregular, hermaphrodite or very rarely dioecious or polygamous (Kydia), 

 axillary, terminal, solitary, clustered or cymoso-paniculate. Involucral 

 bracts 2 or more, connate or free (absent iu Sida, Ahatilon, Bomha.v, and 

 Eriodendron). Sepals 5 (rarely 3-4), valvate, more or less united into 

 a lobed or subentire calyx. Petals 5, more or less adnate to the base 

 of the stamiiial-tube, twisted, imbricate. Stamens indefinite (rarely 

 definite), usually connate into a tube adnate to the base of the petals, 

 and divided at the apex into numerous aiitheriferous filaments, or into 

 2-many 1-many-antheriferous branches, or sometimes emitting shortly 

 stipitate or sessile anthers from its outer surface ; anthers globose, oblong 

 or reniform, cells sinuous or twisted, linear or annular, ultimately 

 ] -celled, bursting longitudinally. Ovary 2-many-celled, entire or lobed, 

 of 2-5 or more carpels, whorled round a central axis ; ovules 1 or more, 

 curved, attached to the inner angle of each carpel ; styles distinct or 

 more or less connate ; stigmas linear, peltate, capitate or spathulate. 

 Fruit of dry cocci, or capsular and loculicidal, sometimes large and 

 woody. Seeds reniform or obovoid, rarely arillate ; albumen scanty, 

 often mucilaginous or ; embryo curved in reniform seeds, usually 

 straight in obovoid ; cotyledons leafy, usually folded or crumpled. — 

 DiSTBiB. "Warm and temperate regions ; genera 57 ; species about 700. 



Tribe 1. MALVEiE. Staminal-tube autheriferous at or to the apex. 

 Involucral bracts present or 0. Brajiches of the style as many as the 

 carpels, liipe carpels separating front the axis or united into a capsule 

 (^Kydia). Pollen globose, echinulate. 



Ovule solitary, ascending ; styles longitudinally stigmatose on 

 the inside. 



Invdl. bracts 6-9, connate at the base 1. Altilea. 



Invol. bracts 3, distinct 2. Malva. 



Ovule solitary, pendulous ; invol. bracts 3. Sida. 



Ovules 2-many. 



Invol. bracts 4-fl ; fruit capsular 4. Kydia. 



Invol. bracts 6. Abutilon. 



