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Bracteoles : 



Fruiting carpels spreading star-wise with points outwards ; 



fruiting calyx flat; flowers purple Anoda. 



Fruiting carpels erect, with the fruiting calyx appressed to 

 them ; flowers yellow : 



Carpels bursting irregularly, points not spreading ; flowers 



opening in the morning 3. Sida. * 



Carpels dehiscing by a regular central line, forming a 

 flat-topped fruit with radiating points ; flowers opening in 



the evening 4. Abutilon. 



Style-branches twice as many as the carpels ; staminal tube 

 antheriferous on the outside not at the top : 



Flowers capitate, 4-6 together in each involucre Malachra. . 



Flowers not in heads : 



Leaves with a large gland at the base of the midrib beneath ; 

 bracteoles or lobes of the involucre triangular-lanceolate ; ripe 



carpels often glochidiate 5. Urena. 



Leaves eglandular ; bracteoles or lobes of the involucre ovate 

 or setaceous ; ripe carpels never glochidiate, but 1-3-aristate 



or bare 6. Pavonia. 



Carpels not separating ; fruit capsular : 

 Bracteoles persistent and forming spreading wings to the fruit ; 



anthers in 5 clusters; flowers polygamous 7. Kydia. 



Bracteoles not spreading nor fimbriate (0 at the time of flowering 

 in Hibiscus ficulnau) : 



Capsule 10-valved 8. Decaschistia. 



Capsule 5-valved 9. Hibiscus. 



Bracteoles large, cordate, foliaceous, fimbriate or toothed 



Gossypium. 

 Leaves digitate ; trees : 



Trunk short, thick, unarmed ; peduncles pendulous, 6-8 in. long ; 



calyx 5-fid; stamens monadelphous Adansonia. 



Trunk tall, armed at least when young ; peduncles under 2 in. long ; 

 calyx truncate ; stamens 5-adelphous : 

 Flowers over 3 in. long ; capsule thick, woody ; bark soon grey 



10. Bombax. 

 Flowers 1-1*5 long ; capsule thin, leathery ; bark remaining green 



for a long time 11. Eriodendron. 



All herbaceous parts covered with peltate scales ; trees : 

 Flowers large, solitary, axillary ; leaves cordate, ovate. ..12. Thespesia. 

 Flowers small (for the Family), densely clustered on the old wood; 

 leaves linear-lanceolate 13. Cullenia, 



