MALVAGEJE. 135 



dentate ; flowers 1 in cymes, usually mucli ramified axillary, lateral, 

 sub-leaf-opposed or more rarely terminal {Tropical Asia and Australia"). 



26 ? Rulingia R. Br. 3 — Flowers nearly of Commersonia ; base of 

 petals wide concave, laterally subauriculate, above (sometimes 

 shorty) ligulate. Staminodes 5, alternipetalous, ligulate, connivent 

 or patent. Germen sessile ; cells oppositipetalous, sometimes free at 

 apex ; stvles more or less connate and coalescing ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell, ascending; micropyle extrorse and inferior. Capsule tomentose 

 or echinate, sometimes covered with soft hairs, loculicidal, 5-valved, 

 or carpels separating 2-valved, 1-spermous. Seeds ascendent, aril- 

 late ; embryo albuminous ; cotyledons flat. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; 

 hairs stellate ; leaves entire, dentate or lobed ; flowers 4 as in Com- 

 mersonia 5 (Australia 6 and Madagascar 1 ). 



27. Theobroma L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx 5-fid, or 

 5-partite valvate ; petals 5, shortly unguiculate, afterwards cucullate- 

 concave above, the cucullus inflexed, produced in spathulate laminae 

 with narrow base; prsefloration contorted. Stamens shortly connate 

 at base in urceolas ; sterile 5 alternipetalous, linear or lanceolate ; the 

 fertile in pairs, oppositipetalous ; each cell lateral, extrorsely rimose, 

 or more rarely 3-nate ; cells 6 ; filaments all erect, stipitate. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; cells oppositipetalous co-ovulate ; ovules 2-seriate ; 

 styles filiform, connate to a greater or less height ; apex not at all 

 or scarcely thickened stigmatiferous. Fruit baccate, finally dry, 

 suberose-ligneous, longitudinally 5-10-costate, indehiscent. Seeds 

 oo , nidulant in pulp ; embryo large, rather fleshy ; cotyledons thick, 



1 Small, close. 4 Small, often whitish. 



2 Spec. 7, 8, Kttmph., Herb. Amboin., iii. 5 A Genus, especially by the species witli short 

 t. 119 (Restiaria) ? — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et ligulate petals, closely connecting the true Buett- 

 Spec., v. 311, uot.— A. S. H„ Fl. Bras. Mer., nerice with the Lasiopetalce, and sometimes 

 i. 140, not.— Andr., in Bot. Repos., t. 519.— with difficulty distinguished from them. 

 Guillem., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 2, vii. 365.— 6 Spec, ad 13, J. Gay, in Mem. Mas., x. t. 

 Seem., Fl. Vit., 25.— Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 12, 13 (B uettneria). —Steetz, in Fl. Preiss., ii. 

 241. — Bot. Mag., t. 1813. — Waep., Eep., 352. — Endl., in Hueg. Enum., 12. — Tuecz., in 

 ii. 795 ; V. 110 ; Ann., i. 107 ; iv. 322 ; vii. 433. Bull. Mosc. (1852), ii. 151.— P. Muell., Fragm., 



3 In Bot. Mag., t. 2191, 3182 — A. S. H., i. 68.— Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 237.— Bot. 

 Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 140, not.— Endl., Gen., n. Mag., t. 3182. — Walp., Rep., i. 337 j Ann., ii. 

 5328.— H. Bk., in Adansonia, ix. 342.— B. H., 165 ; vii. 432. 



Gen., 226, 983, n. 33. — Achilkopsis Ttjkcz., in 7 Species 1, imperfectly known. 

 Bull. Mosc. (1819), ii. 165. 



