MALVAGEM. 



141 



small or 0. Stamens 5-10; 5 sterile, small, alternipetalous or ; 

 fertile anthers longitudinally rimose. 1 Germen 3-5-locular; cells 2 

 2-30 -ovulate; style entire. Capsule loculicidal ; seeds 1 or few, 

 ascending ; embryo straight, albuminous ; cotyledons flat, foliaceous. 

 — Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves nearly of Lasiopetalum, generally 

 lobed or incised ; stipules small or oftener wide, resembling leaf; 

 flowers in false racemes, cymiferous, subterminal or lateral ; cymes 

 often laterally 1 -parous, few flowered ; bracts and bractlets 2, often 

 forming a kind of epicalyx under flower {South and Western Australia*). 



39. Hannafordia F. Muell. 4 — Calyx campanulate, 5-fld, slightly 

 dilated after anthesis ; lobes acute, externally elevate-3-5 ribbed. 

 Petals 5, shorter than calyx, lanceolate, often unequal, apex some- 

 times reflexed. Stamens 1-adelphous at base ; 5 fertile oppositi- 

 petalous ; cells elongated, parallel, extrorse, rimose ; staminodes 1-4, 

 longer, alternating, subpetaloid, subulate. Germen 3, 4-locular ; 2-4. 

 ovules in each cell, ascending ; micropyle extrorse inferior ; style 

 entire, erect, stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule encircled by base of 

 calyx, oblong, thick, ligneous, loculicidal, 3, 4-valved. Seed ascending, 

 base furnished with laciniate (umbilical?) aril; embryo straight; 

 cotyledons thick ; radicle inferior. — A stellate, tomentose shrub ; 

 leaves alternate, subcordate, undulate-sublobed, softly tomentose, 

 exstipulate ; flowers in leaf-opposed pedunculate few cymes, shortly 5- 

 bracteolate ( Western Australia 5 ). 



40. Seringia J. Gay. 6 — Calyx campanulate, 5-fid at a greater or 

 less height, tomentose, scarcely dilated after anthesis (nor coloured). 

 Petals ; stamens 5-10, 5 usually alternipetalous, more or less 



1 Anthers often introrse in the bud, about 

 anthesis versatile; clefts afterwards extrorse. 

 Filaments in Leucothamnus, with very peri- 

 gynous insertion. Anther of Rhynckostemon 

 with connective produced beyond the cells, 

 rostrate. 



2 Connate in plurilocular germen, or free to a 

 greater or less height. 



3 Spec, ad 25. Labill., PI. Nouv.-Holl., i. 

 t. 88 {Lasiopetalum). — Htteg., in JSndl. Dec, 

 32. — Stetjd., in PI. Preiss., i. 230. — Steetz, 

 in PI. Preiss., ii. 319. — Turcz., in Bull. Mosc. 

 (1846), ii. 500 (1053), ii. 142.— Spach, Suit. 



a Buffon, iii. 497. — Lindl., Swan Riv. Bot. 

 App., 18. — P. Muell., Fragm., ii. 7 ; in Trans. 

 Phil. Soc. Vict., i. 35. — Benth., Fl. Austral., 

 i. 248.— Walp., Rep., i. 336 ; ii. 795 ; v. 107 ; 

 Ann., i. 106; ii. 162; vii. 435. 



4 Fragm., ii. 9.— B. H., Gen., 227, n. 38. 



5 Spec. 1. M. quadrivahis F. Muell., loc. 

 cit. — Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 247. — Walp., 

 Ann., 436. 



6 In Mem. Mus., vii. 442, t. 16, 17.— DC, 

 Prod,:, i. 488.— Endl., Gen., n. 5322.— B. H., 

 Gen., 226, 984, n. 35. 



