GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Calyx-lobes longer than the tube, very concave 
strongly keeled and acuminate; fruitlets about 
10, ear-shaped, much compressed, rather obtuse 
or scarcely pointed .. 
Carpels 10 to 15, exceeding the calyx- lobes, the points 
divergent. Stems herbaceous. 
Stem coarse and erect; leaves broadly cordate, 3 
to 4in., carpels 10 ‘to 15 with long divergent 
points .. 
Stem staat) leaves are or cabetacns: bites inte: 
1 to 3 in., carpels about 10 with short divergent 
points .. 
Ti, Fruitleta acai 1- Sead aut radaded or scoala 
at the upper outer edge. 
Leaves cordate, crenate, about 1 in.; flowers 4 in. or 
more in diameter much exceeding the calyx. Cap- 
sule exceeding the calyx, depressed in the centre, 
slightly tomentose or pubescent 
Leaves orbicular, truncate or retuse 
Leaves ovate- eplone under 1 in.; flowers minute; car els 
3-seeded .. 
Lavatera. 
A coarse erect, branched, somewhat shrubby plant ; 
leaves orbicular- cordate, 5- to 7-lobed, on long 
stalks; flowers large, pink or white, usually several 
together, on short stalks, in the axils of the leaves 
Malvastrum. 
An erect branching herb of 1 to 2 feet ; flowers in short 
terminal spikes; leaves stalked ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate 
Hibiscus. 
I. Floral bracts free. 
Calyx shortly 5-lobed, inflated, enclosing the hairy 
capsule ; Ba glabrous. "Erect annual, leaves 
deeply 3- or 5-lobed 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed. 
Seeds covered with woolly hairs. 
Staminal tube short with long filaments round 
the summit; lower leaves small, orbicular.. 
Staminal aie slender, the filaments not ex- 
tending beyond the middle. 
Leaves ovate or lanceolate, entire 
Leaves orbicular, broadly 3-lobed 
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otocarpum 
Avicennae 
oxycarpum 
Fraseri 
halophilum 
macrum 
plebeia 
spicatum 
trionum 
brachysiphonius 
microchlaenus 
Pinonianus 
