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at the summit truncated ; flowers quite small, axillary, 

 solitary, on short stalklets ; fruitlets five to eight, dorsally 

 beset with hairlets, but without wrinkles. 



S. intricata. 



ABUTILON. 



746. Shrubby. 



A dwarf shrub, closely invested with minute starry hairlets ; 

 leaves orbicular- or ovate-cordate, unequally crenate ; 

 flowers axillary, solitary, conspicuously stalked ; calyx 

 inflated, five-angled, its lobes long-pointed ; fruitlets ear- 

 shaped, enclosed, much compressed, slightly coherent. 



A. otocarpum. 



Annual. 



An erect herb, closely invested with minute starry hairlets ; 

 leaves rather large, roundish-cordate, pointed, slightly 

 crenate ; lobes of the calyx deltoid-semilanceolar ; fruit- 

 lets pointed, exserted. A. Avicexmae. 



KOWZTTIA. 



747. Leaves from lanceolar-ovate to broad-cordate. 



Invested with starry hairlets ; leaves lobeless, hardly in- 

 dented or almost entire ; stipules very fugacious or 

 obliterated ; flowers axillary, often solitary ; styles con- 

 nate to the summit ; stigmas very short ; fruit enclosed ; 

 cotyledons trisected. Figure 19. H, trilocularis. 



HIBISCUS. 



748. Involucral bracts about seven, linear, almost discon- 



nected. 



A half-shrub, densely invested with minute grey starry 

 hairlets ; leaves from lanceolar- to orbicular- ovate, irregu- 

 larly crenate-denticulate ; flowers often axillary and soli- 

 tary, conspicuously stalked, rather large ; petals about 

 three times longer than the calyx. H. Krichauffii. 



LAVATERA. 



749. Involucral bracts to about one-third of their length 



connate, the disconnected portion nearly semiovate. 



A somewhat shrubby plant, usually tall, closely invested 

 with short grey starry hairlets ; leaves orbicular-cordate, 

 often bluntly five- to seven-lobed ; stipules short, semi- 

 lanceolar-deltoid ; flowers comparatively large, usually 

 several together, on short stalklets ; calyx nearly twice 

 as long as the involucre ; fruitlets much shorter than the 

 calyx, acutangular. L. plebeja. 



