88 NATU11AL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



gynobasic, divided into as many slender thread-like branches as 

 there are cells in the ovary. Within, on each branch of the style, 

 there is a longitudinal groove more or less decided, with lips fur- 

 nished with stigmatic papilla). There is in each cell, towards the 

 base of the internal angle a placenta supporting a single anatropous 

 ascending ovule, with the micropyle looking downwards and out- 

 wards. 1 The fruit, accompanied by the persistent calyx, is dry, formed 

 of a verticil of achenes which, at maturity, separate from each 

 other, and are detached from the common receptacle. Each of 

 them encloses an ascending seed, containing under its coats an 

 embryo with inferior radicle, and cotyledons contortuplicate, 

 crumpled, more or less folded upon themselves, and enveloping 

 the radicle to a greater or less extent. The albumen is totally 

 wanting at maturity, or is only represented by small mucilaginous 

 masses interposed to the folds of the embryo (fig. 140). The Mallows 

 are herbaceous or suffrutescent plants, slightly glabrous and covered 

 with hairs. They have alternate, petiolate leaves, accompanied by two 

 lateral, generally large, foliaceous stipules. The limb is ordinarily 

 digitate-nerved, dentate, angular, lobed or dissected. The flowers 2 

 are solitary, or usually united in cymes in the axils of the leaves 

 with pedicels sometimes short or even almost wanting. When the 

 leaves towards the summit of the branches are replaced by bracts, 

 the cymes situated in the axil of these are arranged in more 

 or less elongated racemes. Immediately under each flower are 

 found three free foliaceous bracts, which form the involucel or the 

 subcalyx. Fifteen or sixteen species 3 of Mallows proper are known; 

 they inhabit Europe, the temperate regions of Asia, North Africa, 

 and some of them have penetrated into all parts of the world. 



Under the name of Cailir/ioe, 4 six or seven 5 Mallows of North 



1 There are two coats in most Malvacece. Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 177. — Bot. 



2 Pink, white or purple. Reg., t. 1306.— Bot. Mag., t. 1998, 2179, 2298, 



3 Cav., Diss., ii. v. icon.— Reichb., Ic. Fl. 3698, 4681. — Walp., Rep., i. 292 ; Ann., i. 99 ; 

 Germ.^v. t. 166-172.— Geen. et Gode., Fl. de l ii. 139; iv. 297 (part.); vii. 386. 



Fr., i. 233.— Wight Icon., t. 950.— Jacq., 4 Ntttt., in Journ. Acad. Philad., ii. 181.— 



llort. Schoenbr., t. 139; Ic. Rar., 1. 139 ; Sort. A. Geay, Gen. III., t. 117, 118.— H. B., Gen., 



Vindob., t. 35, 141, 156. — Toee. et Geat, Fl. 201, n. I.—Xuttallia Baet., Fl. N.-Amer., ii. 



N.-Amer., i. 225.— H. B. K., Nov. Gen et Spec, 74, t. 62 (nee DC, nee Toee., nee Dicks.). 



v. 274.— A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 213.— A. 5 Hook., Fxot. FL, t. 171, 172 ; in Bot. 



Geat, Man., ed. 5, 66.— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. Mag., t. 3287 {Nuttallia).—Bot. Reg., t. 1938 



W.-Ind., 72 (Malvaslrum).— Te. et Pi. in Ann. (Nultallia).—\V alp., Ann., ii. 149; iv. 298 



Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 153. — Haev. et Sond. Fl. {Malva); vii. 388. 

 Cap., i. 159. — Bentii., Fl. Austral., i. 186. — 



