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pyle extrorse inferior, or very rarely subtransverse or descendent ; 

 micropyle introrse superior {Malvastrum) ; style branches equal in 

 number to cells, either filiform inwardly longitudinally stigmati- 

 ferous {Eumalva, Callirhoe), or truncate stigmatiferous, or clavate or 

 capitate {Malvastrum, Phi/llanthophora) at apex. Mature carpels go in 

 depressed verticillate globe, shortly cylindrical, separating from short 

 cylindrical or conically prominent axis, indehiscent or more rarely 2- 

 valved, sometimes shortly spinose dorsally (Phj/llanthopho?'a), erostrate 

 {Eumalva), or more or less long rostrate ; cavity of beak sometimes 

 separated into cells by horizontal processus {Callirhoe). Seeds ascen- 

 dent, reniform ; embryo exalbuminous or more rarely scarcely albu- 

 minous between the folds, curved ; cotyledons foliaceous, more or less 

 plicate or contortuplicate, more or less involving short inferior radicle, 

 folded. — Herbs, sometimes suffrutescent at base ; leaves alternate, 

 usually angular, lobed or dissected, sometimes cordate or partite ; 

 stipules 2-lateral ; flowers axillary, solitary, or in cymes, pedunculate 

 or subsessile ; cymes sometimes in terminal racemes ; pedicels rarely 

 petiolate, adnate to leaves of flowers {Phyllanthophora) ; involucel 

 under flower of 3 bractlets {Eumalva), free, or more rarely 1, 2, 

 small {Malvastrum), constant, sometimes {All Temperate regions, 

 Warm America, Southern Africa). See p. 86. 



43. Althaea L.' — Flowers nearly of Malva ; carpels oo, in a 

 depressed globe at maturity, rising above or equal to the short axis, 

 sometimes scarcely longer than conical axis {Olbiar), or crowned with 

 variously dilated axis {Lavaterd"), rarely membranous at margin 

 {Alceaf), finally separating at axis, indehiscent; seed and other 

 characters of Malva. — Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes high 

 tomentose {Eualthcea), or more rarely shrubs or trees; leaves angular, 

 lobed, or partite; flowers 5 axillary, solitary, pedunculate, or in 



1 L., Gen., n. 839.— Adans., Fam. des PL, 3 L., Gen., n. 839. — DC, Prodr., i. 438. — 

 ii. 400. — J., Gen., 272. — G^eetn., Fruct., t. Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. 337. — Ekdi., Gen., 

 136.— Lame., Diet., iii. 58; Suppl., ii. 862; n. 5269. — B. H., Gen., 200, n. h.—Stegia 

 III., t. 581. — DC, Prodr., i. 436.— Spach, Mcench, Meth., 609.— DC, Fl. Fr., iv. 583. 

 Suit, a Buffon, iii. 354.-Endl., Gen., n. 5270. 4 L> Gen> n 840 ._DC, Prodr., i. 437,— 

 — H. Bn, in Payer Fam. Nat., 282.— B. H., Reichb j C- FL Germ ^ v# 175. 



Gen., 200, n. 4 (incl. : Alcea L., Ferbena Scop., 



Lavatera L.). VV hlte ' pink ' somevvbat purple, or very rarely 



2 Medik., ' Malv., 4\.—Savignonia Webb, pale yellow. 

 Fl. Canar., 30, t. 13. — Navcea Webb, loc. cil., 



32, t. 1, c. 



