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XXXVI. MALVACE^. 





AUfiaea. 

 Flower cut vertically. 



riagianthus (Philippodendron). 

 AndrcEcium and petals. 



AWuea. 

 Calyx and pistil. 



riagianthui. 

 Tart of andrcEcium with one petal. 



Allliati 



I'lagianthus. 

 Flower cut vertically (mag.). 



CALYX generally 5 - lobed, 

 valvate. PETALS contorted, equal 

 :md alternate with the calyx- 

 lobes, hypogynous, bases very often 

 adnate to the staminal tube. 

 STAMENS oo , hypogynous; fila- 

 ments more or less monadelphous, 

 alternate or opposite to the calyx- 

 lobes; anthers 1-celled, pollen 

 echinulate. OVARY of many carpels, whorled or agglomerated into a head. FRUIT 

 usually dry, rarely a berry. SEEDS reniform, ascending, horizontal or pendulous; albumen 

 scanty. EMBRYO curved; cotyledons folded on each other. 



HERBS, SHRUBS, or TREES, with light and soft wood. LEAVES alternate, simple, 

 usually palininerved, entire or paltnilobed, hairs usually stellate; stipules 2, lateral, 

 persistent or deciduous. FLOWERS $f , regular, axillary, solitary or agglomerated, 

 sometimes in a raceme, corymb, or panicle. CALYX with an involucel of whorled 

 bracts, rarely naked (Sida, Abutilon), 5-fid or -partite, rarely 3-4-fid, valvate in 

 cestivation, persistent or rarely deciduous. PETALS equal and alternate with the 

 calyx-segments, inserted on the receptacle, claw very often adnate to the staminal 

 tube, limb usually inequilateral, aestivation contorted. STAMENS connate in a tube 

 or column enclosing the ovary with its dilated base, sometimes divided at the top 

 into segments alternate or opposite to the calyx-lobes, and separating into numerous 

 antheriferous filaments, sometimes emitting shortly stipitate or sessile anthers from 



