148 MALVACEAE. [Cl. 13. 



with Stipulas. Flowers opposite to the alternate 

 Leaves, axillary at the opposite ones.'' 



Geranium, fig. 31-35, from which are now so satis- 

 factorily separated Erodium and Pelargonium, fig. 227, 

 composes, with Monsvnia, the whole of this Order. 

 Trop&olum, fig. 228, Impatiens (Balsamina Juss.) and 

 Oxalls are subjoined as related to those genera. In 

 the first I confess myself unable to discern any affinity 

 whatever with them, or to form any idea to what 

 tribe it belongs. Impatiens is surely, as Jussieu hints, 

 p. 237, more akin to his Papaverace<e, Ord. 62. 

 Oxalis I have long ago, Engl. Bot. t. 762, proposed 

 removing to the Rutacete, see Ord. 81. 



Ord. 74. MALVACEAE. " Calyx in 5 segments, 

 more or less deep, either simple, or accompanied by 

 an external Calyx, of 1 or many leaves. Petals 5, 

 equal, either distinct and hypogynous, or connected at 

 the base, and united to the lower part of the tube of 

 the Stamens, which are hypogynous, and either de- 

 finite or indefinite. Their Filaments are either united, 

 almost all the way up, into a tube, closely embracing 

 the Style, and nearly as long, which bears the Petals 

 at it's base, and is laden, at or about the top, with 

 Anthers, each supported by it's own Filament, rarely 

 sessile : or the Filaments are merely combined into 

 a sort of cup, whose segments either all bear one or 

 more Anthers, or some of them are without any. Ger- 

 men one, in some instances stalked. Style mostly 



