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or less distance from the apex, slightly dilated, stigmatiferous 

 at apex. Capsule encircled by base of calyx, exterior lepidote, loculi- 

 cidal, 5-valved ; cells 1-6-spermous ; seeds albuminous ; embryo 

 rather fleshy; cotyledons folded 2-partite.~-Undershrubs ; leaves 

 alternate linear entire, lepidote beneath, stipules linear-subulate ; 

 flowers few (2, 3) in racemose pedunculate axillary and terminal 

 cymes ; bracts ; epicalyx under flower of 3 bractlets, inciso-digi- 

 tate or subpinnate 3-fid, constant 1 {Madagascar). 



18? Melhania Forsk. 3 — Mowers of Dombeya ; stamens solitary 

 between staminodes ; filaments very shortly connate in cupule ; 

 anthers extrorse elongate; cells parallel. Ovary 5-celled ; cells 1-oc- 

 ovulate ; style branches 5, patent, inwardly stigmatiferous. Other 

 characters of Dombeya (or Trochetia). — Herbs or undershrubs, 

 softly tomentose ; 4 leaves ovate or cordate serrate-crenate ; flowers 

 axillary or lateral pedunculate, solitary or in small cymes ; each 

 furnished at base with 3 bractlets, cordate or linear, often longer 

 than calyx, persistent 5 ( Warm regions of Asia and Africa, Tropical 

 Australia 6 ). 



IV. CHIRANTHODENDEE^E. 



L9. Chiranthodendron Larreat. — Flowers regular, apetalous ; 

 calyx (coloured) subcampanulate deeply 5-fid ; lobes thick coria- 

 ceous or subpetaloid (Fremontia), pitted at base ; pra3floration imbri- 

 cate. Stamens 5, alternating with the lobes of calyx ; filaments 



1 For certain affinities with Friolana see 4 Habit similar to some Hermannias and 

 Bentham. Melochias, also to Sida and. Hibiscus (sect. 



2 Spec. 1. C. linearis Benth., said to be Senrce). 



found in the Mauritius, but all the specimens 5 Genus scarcely distinct from Trochetia (on 



preserved by us and collected by Dupetit- account of Greek species 5-androus). 

 Thotjaes, Bojee, Richaed, Bebniee, and 6 Spec, ad 15. Wall., PI. As. Ear., t. 



Boivin are certainly Madagascarian.- 77. — Wight, Icon., t. 23. — Ande., in Bot. 



3 Fl. ASg.-Arab., 64.— DC., Prodr., i. 499, Rep., t. 389 (Dombeya). — Guillem. & 

 § 2.— Endl., Gen., n. 5348. — H. Bn., in Payer Peee., Fl. Seneg. Tent., i. 85, t. 17. — 

 Fam. Nat., 288. — B. H., Gen., 222, n. 19. — Hook, v., Niger, t. 4. 5. — Haev. & Sond., 

 Brotera Cav., in Ann. Cienc. Nat., i. 33 (part.); Fl. Cap., i. 221 — Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 

 Icon., v. 19, t. 433.— Endl., Gen., n. 5344. — 234. — Pot. Mag., t. 100. — Walp., Rep., i. 439 ; 

 Sprengelia Schttlt., Obs. Pot., 134,— Penta- ii. 789; Ann., i. 109; ii. 167 ; iv. 327; vii. 

 glottis Wall., Cat., n. 1156. — Cardiostegia 424. 



Peesl, Fpimel. Pot., 219.— Vialia Vis. (ex 

 Linncea, xv. Littb., 103). 



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