Classification of Plants 



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obliquely hanging flowers are so nearly regular. The smaller 

 herbaceous flowers, like those of Sida, have short stamen tubes, 

 and stigmas that can curve over and help themselves to the 

 pollen which ripens with the stigmas. 



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Fig. 241. — Hibiscus. I. Corolla, with petals adherent to monadelphous stamens. 

 II. Diagram. (From Edmonds and Marloth's " Elementary Botany for South Africa.") 



Fig. 242.— J/<a;/»a. I. Portion of plant (reduced). II. Pistil. (From Thome 

 and Bennett's "Structural and Physiological Botany.") 



Order Sterculace^. 



Flowers regular. Calyx lobes united, valvate. Petals 5. 

 Stamens monadelphous (sometimes merely joined at the base) 



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