MALVACEAE 



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Other fairly common or well-known members of 

 this family are ALTH^A ROSEA (the Holly-hock) a 

 well-known garden plant, of a typically malvaceous 

 character. The flowers are large (in garden varie- 

 ties often double, that is, with numerous petals). They 

 have an epi-calyx of several bracteoles, and the fruit 

 is a schizocarp, splitting into a large number of one- 

 seeded segments. 



ABUTILON INDICUM an undershrub with cordate 

 almost entire leaves covered with soft 'down'. The 



FIG. 72. ABUTILON INDICUM, G. Don. 



