100 MALVACEZ. HYPERICUM, 
MALVA, 
leafy cymes: sepals foliaceous, unequal, lanceolate to broadly oyate, 1-3 
lines long; longer than the ovate 1-celled capsule: stamens 15-20. In wet 
places, Brit. Columbia to California. - 
H. Canadense var. major Gray Man. 86. Stems rather stout and strict, 
almost simple, 12-18 inches high: leaves lanceolate, 1-2 inches long, 4-6 
lines broad, more or less clasping, often very acute, glandular dotted be- 
neath: flowers in somewhat crowded cymes: sepals linear-lanceolate long- 
pointed ; stamens 5-10: capsule very acutely conical, 3-4 lines long: seeds 
yellow, more or less striate and pitted. Green Lake, King county, Wash- 
ington and the Eastern States. 
OrpER XVI. MALVACEAt Neck. Act. Ac. Theod. Palat. 2, 488. 
Herbs or shrubs with alternate stipulate mostly palmately 
veined leaves and usually showy flowers. Flowers regular, — 
hermaphrodite or rarely dicecious or polygamous. Sepals 5, 
rarely 3 or 4, valvate in the bud, more or less united at base, 
often having an external calyx or involucre, Petals hypogyn- 
ous, equal innumber to the sepals, twisted in the bud. Stamens 
hypogynous, commonly indefinite in number, rarely as few as 
the petals, united below into a monadelphous tube or ring: 
anthers 1l-celled, reniform, bursting transversely. Ovary form- 
ed of several carpels around a common axis, either distinet or 
cohering. Styles as many as carpels, united or distinct Fruit 
capsular or rarely baccate: carpels 1 to many-seeded sometimes 
closely united, sometimes separate or seprrable. Seeds cam- 
pylotropous or heterotropous with little or no albumen. Em- 
bryo curved: cotvledons foliaceous, twisted and doubled up. 
* Styles stigmatic on the inner face: carpels indehiscent: oyules 
solitary, ascending. 
1. Malva. Bractlects 1-3, distinct: axis broad, shorter than the numer- 
‘ous carpels, filaments in 1 series. 
2. Sidaleea. Bractlets none. Filaments in 2 series; those of the outer 
series united into 5 clusters: carpels 5-10, covering the axis. 
* * Stigmas capitate: carpels mostly dehiscent, at least at the 
apex. . 
3. Spheraleea. Bractlets 1-3, ovules 2, the lower ascending, the up- 
per pendulous. . 
4. Sida. Bractlets usually none: ovule solitary. 
5. Abutilon. Bractlets none: ovuled 3-4 in each cell. 
1 MALVA L. Gen. n. 841. 
Hirsute or glabrate herbs with angularly lobed or dissected 
leaves and mostly showy flowers solitary in the axils of the 
leaves or rarely in terminal racemes. Calyx 5-cleft, with an in- 
volucre of usually 3 oblong or setaceous bractlets or rarely none. 
Petals 5, obcordate. Staminal column divided above into numer- 
ous filaments. Styles filiform; stigmatic on the inner side. Car- 
pels numerous with a single ascending ovule in each. Fruit de- 
pressed, the numerous free carpels separating from the broad and 
not projecting axis, indehiscent, beakless. 
M. sporeatis Wall. in Liljebl. Sy. Fl. ed. 2,218. Annual, erector some- 
