142 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



squamiform or subpctaloid, sometimes connate at base ; 5 oppo- 

 sitipetalous fertile ; anthers longitudinally 2-rimose. Germen 

 5-locular ; ovules 2 or 3 in each cell (more rarely more) ; styles 

 connate or coalescing. Carpels distinct at maturity, shortly winged 

 above, back finally gaping; seeds arillate ; embryo albuminous; 

 cotyledons foliaceous. — Shrubs j 1 leaves entire or dentate ; llowers in 

 much ramified terminal racemes of cymes {Subtropical or Extra- 

 tropical Eastern Australia 2 ). 



41. Keraudrenia J. Gay. 3 — Flowers nearly of Seringia ; calyx 

 finally membranous-dilated, coloured or transparent. Petals or 

 very small, squamiform. Stamens of Thomasia. Germen 3-5-locu- 

 lar ; styles coherent at apices ; ovules in each cell 3-qo . Capsule 

 3-5-locular, membranous, villous or shortly setose, loculicidal, or 

 carpels finally distinct. Seeds arillate ; embryo albuminous, straight 

 or curved ; cotyledons flat. — Shrubs ; habit and leaves of Lasio- 

 petalum (or Thomasia) ; stipules small, persistent, or very small ; 

 flowers terminal, solitary, or in short cymes 4 (Madagascar, b Extra- 

 tropical and Subtropical 6 Australia). 



VIII. MALVEJ]. 



42. Malva T. — Flowers hermaphrodite, regular ; calyx 5-fid, val- 

 vate or subreduplicate. Petals 5, connate between themselves at base, 

 and with the stamina! column, contorted. Stamens go ; filaments 

 1-adelphous at base, column tubular, afterwards divided at apex; 

 anthers reniform, 1-locular, extrorsely rimose. Germen 8-locular ; 

 cells in a verticillate globe ; 1 ovule in each cell adscendent ; micro- 



1 Habit often of Commersonia, hence also eon- fordice acced., calyce fere Thomasia." (B. H., 

 necting Buettneriea with Lasiopetalce. Gen., 984.) 



2 Spec. 1. S. plati/phylla J. Gay, loc. cit. — 5 Spec. 1, flowers rather large, fruit hitherto 

 Bentii., Fl. Austral., i. 245 — Walp., Ann., vii. not described. 



n. 1. — Lasiopetalum arborescens Ait., Sort. 6 Spec. 6. Stetjd., in PI. Preiss., i. 236. — 



Kew., ed 2, ii. 36. Steetz, in PI. Preiss., ii. 349 (Seringia). — F. 



3 In Mem. Mm., vii. 461, t. 23. — DC, Mueix., Fragm., i. 28, 242; ii. 5; in Hook. 

 Prodr., i. 489. — Endl., Gen., n. 5327. — B. H., Journ., ix. 15 {Seringia). — Bentii., Fl. Aus- 

 Gen., 227, 984, n. 36. t,al., i. 245.— Walp., Ann., ii. 164; vii. 434. 



4 " Gen. quoad anther. Seringia et Hanna- 



