MALVAOE.E. 



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with the micropyle looking outwards. This character has here, 

 however, as elsewhere, a merely artificial 1 value. To this subseries 

 belong the allied genera Bastardia, Anoda, Cristaria, and the slightly 

 exceptional genera Hoheria and Plagianthus : the former (fig. 143) 

 remarkable for its carpels, surmounted by a dorsal and vertical wing ; 

 the latter (fig. 142) is noticeable by its flowers, often reduced, which 

 may have only one carpel to the gynseceum, and only one ovule in 

 each carpel, and whose flowers are sometimes polygamous, but which 

 in the most perfect species has a piuricarpellary gynseceum ; it is, 

 however, quite inseparable from Sida. 



Abuiilon (fig. 144) has given its name to a third subseries, in 

 which, although all the organization is that of the Mallows, 



each carpel encloses more Mutilon striatum . 

 than one ovule, often two, 

 ascending, with inferior and 

 exterior micropyle, some- 

 times a larger number ; 

 some ascending, others hori- 

 zontal or descending. Beside 

 it is ranged in this small 

 group the five nearly allied 

 genera : Wissadula, Spltce- 

 ralcea, Modiola, Hotoittia, 

 and Kydia, which only differ 

 from it by the number or absence of the bractlets of the epicalyx, or 

 by the presence in the carpels of a more or less complete false trans- 

 verse partition. 



Hoheria populnea. 



Fig. 143. 

 Portion of the fruit 2 (f ). 



Fig. 144. 

 Flower. 



IX. MALOPE SERIES. 



Malope 3 (figs. 145-148) has regular hermaphrodite flowers with 

 convex receptacle very analogous in exterior to that of the Mallows. 

 The calyx is gamosepalous with five lobes valvate reduplicate in the 



1 As demonstrated by the example of Malvella 

 (see p. 90, note 2), the ovule of which is some- 

 times ascending and sometimes descending. [See 

 also on this subject the These of Pater (15, not.), 

 where the value of the direction of the ovule is 

 equally contested.] 



2 Fig. de Raoul, Ch. de PI. N.-Zel, t. 26. 



3 Malope L., n. 841. — J., Gen., 272. — Lamk., 

 Diet., iii. 689 ; Suppl., iii. 582 ; III., t. 583. — 

 DC, Prodr., i. 429. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 

 344.— Endl., Gen., n. 5267. — Payee, Orgatwg., 

 40, t. 8.— B. H., Gen., 200, n. 1.— H. Bn., in 

 Payer Fam. Nat., 283. 



