94 MALVACEAE. 



Urencie. Styles or stiginatic branches twice as many as the carpels. (5) 

 Hibiscese. Herbs or shrubs. Fruits capsular, sepals leafy. Stnminal tul>o 



truncate or 5-toothed at tlie apex. (6) 

 Bombaceie. Trees. Sepals leathery Bomlax. 10 



(1) Ovules solitary. (2) 



Ovules more than two AlvJtilon. 5 



(2) Ovules ascending. (3) 



Ovules pendulous Sida. 4 



(3) Stigma linear. (4) 



Stigma capitate Malvaslrum. 3 



(4) Bracteoles more than six Althcea. 1 



Bracteoles three Malva. 2 



(5) Carpels beset with spines Urcno. 6 



((i) Stigmas spreading Hibiscus. 7 



Stigmas coherent in a club-shaped mass. (7) 



(7) Bracteoles 5, small Thespcsia. 8 



Bracteoles 3, large, cordate Gossypium. 9 



1. Althcva LINN. 



Althaea rosea CAV.; HAB. Taito : Daironkosha, cultivated ? 



2. Malva LINN. 



Malva sylvestris LINN. Sp. PI. erl-2, p. 969 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 432 ; 

 MASTEHS in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. I. p. 320 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Lid. Fl. Sin. 

 I. p. 84 ; DIELS Fl. Centr. Cliiu. p. 469 ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enum. PI. 

 Formos. p. 50. 



Malva mauritiana LINN. Sp. PI. cd-2, p. 970 ; MAXIM. Ind. Fl. Pek. in. 

 Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 469. 



Malva mauriliana ft sinensls DC. Prodr. I. p. 432. 



HAB. Pachina. 



DISTPJB. Plant of the Old World; widely diffused in the northern 

 temperate regions. 



