148 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
I. MALVA, L. 
Calyx 5-cleft, with a small, 3-leaved involucre. Petals 
obcordate or truncate. Styles many, slender, with stigmas 
running down the sides. Carpels many, 1-seeded, arranged 
in a circle and separating from each other, but not opening 
when ripe. 
1. M. rotundifolia, L. Common MAtitow, CueEEses (from ap- 
pearance of the unripe fruit). A common biennial or perennial 
weed, with nearly prostrate stems. Leaves long-petioled, round- 
kidney-shaped, with crenate margins. Flowers small, whitish, on 
long peduncles. 
2. M. sylvestris, L. HiagH Maxriow. Biennial or perennial. 
Stem erect, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves 5-7 lobed. Flowers purplish, 
larger than those of the preceding species. 
Il. ABUTILON, Tourn. 
Calyx 5-cleft, the tube often angled. Styles 5-20, with 
knobbed stigmas. Carpels as many as the styles, arranged in 
a circle, each 1-celled, 3-6-seeded, and opening when ripe by 
2 valves. 
1. A. striatum, Dicks. Tasser Trees FLOWERING MAPLE. A 
shrub 5-10 ft. high. Leaves maple-like. Flowers showy, solitary, 
nodding on slender peduncles. Corolla not opening widely, orange, 
striped with reddish-brown veins. Column of stamens projecting 
beyond the corolla like a tassel. Cultivated in hothouses. From 
Brazil. 
65. HYPERICACEZAR. Sr. Jonnswort FAmILy. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite, often covered 
with translucent or dark dots, entire or with glandular teeth, 
without stipules. Flowers usually in terminal cymes. Sepals 
5, rarely 4. Petals as many as the sepals, hypogynous. 
Stamens usually many, more or less grouped in bundles, 
anthers versatile. Pod 1-celled, with 2-5 parietal placentz 
and the same number of styles. or else 3—7-celled, splitting 
along the partitions. 
