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mens go ; apex of column divided into filaments. Germen 5- -o -locular; 

 1 ovule in each cell descending ; micropyle introrse superior ; style 

 branches equal in number to the cells, filiform or subclavate, stig- 

 matiferous truncate or capitate at apex. Mature carpels 5- oo, accompa- 

 nied by fructiferous calyx, sometimes accrescent patent membranous 

 {Meischeria 1 ) finally separating from the axis, sometimes membranous 

 {Gay a?), erostrate or apex produced in rostra or erect connivent 

 prickles, indehiscent (Diclyocarjmi), or at apex 2-valved, bare 

 inwardly, sometimes dehiscing dorsally in 2 small valves, leaving the 

 internal dorsal ligule ascending from the base round the seed (Gay a) ; 

 seed descendent or sometimes subhorizontal. — Herbs, undershrubs 

 or shrubs ; indumentum often soft or tomentose ; leaves entire, angu- 

 lar, or lobed ; flowers subsessile or oftener pedunculate, solitary or in 

 glomerules, axillary or in clusters, sometimes corymbiform, spikes or 

 terminal capitula; bractlets 4 (All warm regions of the Globe b ). 



47. Bastardia H. B. K. 6 — Flowers nearly of Sida ; germen 

 5 -locular ; cells ovulate ; style branches same in number, apex capi- 

 tate stigmatiferous. Capsule depressed-globose erostrate, 5-sulcate, 

 loculicidal ; valves 5, septiferous at middle ; seeds descending ; 

 micropyle introrse superior. — Undershrubs or tomentose herbs ; 7 

 leaves cordate, entire, or crenulate ; flowers 8 axillary solitary, peduncu- 

 late ebracteolate (Trop. America*). 



1 Steud., in PI. Preiss., i. 236.— Steetz, 50 ; Fl, Bras. Mer., i. 173, t. 33-37, 3S (Gaga). 

 in PI. Preiss., ii. 365. — Wigiit, Icon., t. 95. — Moeic, PI. Nonv. 



2 H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 266, t. Amer., t. 24, 25.— C. Gat, Fl. CHI., i. 329.— 

 475, !7G.— Exdl., Gen., n. 5290. — B. H., Gen., Haey. &Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 166. — Thw., Fnum. 

 203, n. 15. PL Zeyl., 27.— Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 73. 



3 Wight, in Madr. Joiim. Se. (ex Ann. Sc. —A. Geat, PI. Fendler., 22. — Seem., Fl. Tit., 

 Nat., ser. 2, xi. 169). 15. — Tr. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 



4 Malvella Jaitb. & Spach., by us (see p. 172. — Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 191. — Mast., in 

 90, note 2), referred to Malvastrum, A. Gray Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr., i. 178. — Bot. Mag., t. 

 (sect. Malta) is, on the authority of B. H. 2193, 2857.— Wale., Rep., i. 313, 321 (Gaga) ; 

 "Vera Sidce species, hracteolis 2 in pedicello ii. 792 ; v. 93; Ann., i. 102 j ii. 153; iv. 310; 

 minimis non obstantibus." Ovules erect (Spach), vii. 392. 



and said to be suspended (B. H.). But we (in 6 Nov. Gen. et Spec, v. 254, t. 472. — Endl., 



Adansonia, x. 188) see the ovule to be some- Gen., n. 5293 (part. excl. sect. Gayoides). — 



times ascending (micropyle extrorse inferior), Pater, These Malvac, 19. — B. H., Gen., 203, 



sometimes descending (micropyle introrse su- n. 17. 



perior), as the insertion of the style may be more ' Habit of Sida. 



or less gynobasic. Sometimes ovules and seeds 8 Yellow. 



become quite transverse. Finally we hold all 9 Spec. 2. A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 194, 



legitimate Sidas ecalyculate. t. 39.— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 80.— Ts. 



5 Spec, ad 85. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, & Pe., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 186.— 

 v. 256, t. 473.— A. S. H., PI. Us. Bras., t. 49, Waep., Ann., vii. ?95. 



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