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tinea, Lavatera, Ma/ope, Gossypium and Hibiscus. Petals 

 generally five, but as they often adhere to the united fila- 

 ments, the corolla seems monopetalous. This adhesion 

 contradicts the opinion of Vaillant, who has said that 

 stamens are never inserted but into a monopetalous co- 

 rolla. Their connected claws often form a nectary be- 

 tween them. The corolla is somewhat abrupt, and twisted 

 contrary to the sun's motion. Pistils usually correspond- 

 ing in number to the parts of the fruit; as do the stigmas, 

 where the style is simple. Turnera has as many styles 

 as there are cells in the capsule. The fruit is always su- 

 perior, but differs in different genera. Malva, Alcea, Al- 

 thaea, Lavatera and Malope, have numerous capsules, 

 ranged like a wheel round the base of the style ; nor is the 

 latter placed upon, but in the midst of, them, as in the 

 Asperifolice, order 41. Each capsule is single-seeded, 

 and falls off with the seed ; which is likewise the case in 

 Urena; such seed-vessels might perhaps rather be named 

 arilli, or tunics, as they burst at their inner side. Many 

 of this order have solitary seeds in their cells, or capsules, 

 like the above, and the genus Ayenia; but many others 

 are polyspermous, as Bombax, Hibiscus, Theobroma, &c. 

 A few of the genera produce woolly seeds, as Bombax and 

 Gossypium ; in the place of which appendage, Adansonia 

 has a mealy powder. Some bear a capsule of five cells, 

 containing many seeds; which in Hibiscus Malvaviscus," 

 (now constituting the genus Achania,) " becomes pulpy. 

 It is curious that Hibiscus Moscheutos bears its flower- 

 stalk upon the footstalk, like Turnera; a rare circum- 

 stance in the whole vegetable kingdom." 



u Hermannia has hooded petals, in a corolla twisted 

 like that of Malva. They are auricled and dilated below, 

 forming a nectary by their involution, as the true Malva- 

 ceae do by the cohesion, or approximation, of their petals. 

 The calyx is tumid. Capsule of five cells. All the species 

 are shrubby. The flowers' are so alike in all, as hardly 

 to be distinguishable from one another ; and hence pet- 



