42 MALVACEAE. | Malva. 
1-celled; pollen-grains hispid. Several carpels around the central axis, 
free, or united into a several-celled ovary. Style single, with as many or 
twice as many lobes as carpels, rarely entire. Ovules 1 or more in each 
carpel ell. Fruit usually capsular, ¢ or separating into closed cocci or 
hiscent carpi us um ittle or none 
Embryo with twisted i cic curyed in the reniform seeds. — Herbs, 
shrubs or soft-woo trees, with stellate down. eaves alternate, 
stipulate, usually annie veined or lobed. Peduncles 1- EE axillary 
and solitary, or arranged in axillary fascicles or short racemes or in 
terminal racemes. Bracteoles often 3 or more close aude or upon the 
calyx, sip or united into an involucre or outer calyx. 
r, dis isperse ed over the whole globe, except the arctic region 
Besides che follo ing, Urena lobata has to be mentioned, a few lants of which have 
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forming a naar aceme, the calyx surrounded by a 5-leaved involucre 
— 1- ovulate, at last mised seceding from the axis; staminal 
n ending in 
Beis tenhchcs iistatooe alo: sin the somes side 
Style-branches with terminal stigmas 
ha a bracts 3—1; ovule ascen ndin 
nvolucral bracts none; ovule pe pain g or horizo tal 
bsicae generally with 2 or more ovules, more or less canes into a 
capsule: 
No inyolucral bracts; staminal col ding in fil ts; carpels 
reet near the to, 
a involucrate; staminal column 5-toothed or ' truneate at the 
p; carpels united to the top 
Cal K.lnahsaaA ro.) a | ST + "a4 . 4 as 
Involucral bracts free : : ; i : f ¢ 5. Hibiscus. 
Involucral bracts united . 6. Paritium. 
Calyx truncate; ciedid simple, with clavate stigma: 
Inyolueral pita caducous, lanceolate 7. Thespesia. 
Involucral bracts permanent, generally broad and cordate 8. Gossypium. 
1. MALVA, L. 
Involucre of 3 distinct bracts. Calyx 5-cleft. Petals obcordate. Staminal 
column ending in filaments. Style-branches as many as carpels, stigmatose 
along the inner side. Carpels 8 many, forming a depressed ring round the 
short axis, breaking away from it at maturity as closed nutlets, each 
containing 1 ascending seed. — Herbs, with palmately mre mostly 
lobed or dissected leaves and oe white or red flower 
Natives of ue northern Africa and 
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Malva. 
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Malvastrum. 
Sida. 
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Abutilon. 
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—— seeing shorter than the calyx. or ae; 2" Petals 
