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159. Fruit consisting of one-seeded fruitlets. 



Herbs or shrubs; petals generally small, often yellow; 

 stigmas terminal; fruitlets seceding, imperfectly or hardly 

 dehiscent. Sida. 745 



Fruit valvate or consisting of two- or more-seeded 

 fruitlets .................. 160 



160. Fruit consisting of connate or coherent fruitlets. 



Herbs or shrubs or rarely small trees; petals generally large, 

 often yellow; stigmas terminal; fruitlets dehiscent. 



Abutilon. 746 



Fruit three-valved. 



Tall shrub; petals violet; stigmas terminal; seeds two in 

 each fruit-cell. Figure 19. Howittia. 747 



161. Floral bracts five or more. 



Herbs or shrubs or small trees; petals often large; floral 

 bracts connate; stigmas terminal; fruit five-valved; seeds 

 few or several in each fruit-cell. Hibiscus. 748 



Floral bracts three. 



Herbs or shrubs; petals generally large, often bluish or 

 pink ; floral bracts connate ; stigmas decurrent ; fruit 

 consisting of one-seeded, indehiscent, seceding fruitlets. 



Lavatera. 749 



162. Anthers quadrangular. 



Perennial herbs or somewhat shrubby plants ; leaves small, 

 scattered or somewhat whorled, rarely absent ; petals 

 red, exceptionally white ; anthers attenuated at the 

 summit. Tetratheca. 750 



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163. Fruit smooth, lobeless, somewhat succulent and often 

 blue outside, hard inside. 



Trees, often tall ; petals at the upper end fringed or den- 

 ticulated or rarely entire ; anthers narrow, at the summit 

 dehiscent. Figure 2C. Elaeocarpus* 751 



