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NATURAL HISTORY OF FLANTS. 



48. Anoda Cav. 1 — Calyx 5-fkl, and corolla of Sida ; apex of staminal 

 column divided into oo filaments. Germen co-locular ; 1 ascending 

 ovule in each cell ; micropyle introrse superior ; style branches 

 equal in number to cells, filiform ; apex truncate stigmatiferous, not 

 thickened or capitate. Carpels oo, wide stellate-verticillate, eros- 

 trate, separating from axis at maturity ; laterally opened by disap- 

 pearance of septa ; seed ascendent or subhorizontal, more rarely 

 subdescendent. — Glabrous or hispid herbs ;" leaves entire hastate- 

 3-lobed or rarely dissected ; flowers 3 pedunculate, axillary, soli- 

 tary, or in terminal racemes, involucel {Warm America*). 



49. Cristaria Cav. 3 — Flowers nearly of Anoda, ecalyculate ; 

 carpels oo membranous or coriaceous at maturity, apex j^roduced in 

 double erect connivent wings, separating from the axis, dorsally 

 2-valved, laterally closed or more rarely opened by disappearance 

 of septa. Germen oo locular; 1 ovule in each cell descendent 

 or subhorizontal ; seeds and other characters of Anoda. — Herbs 

 usually prostrate tomentose ; leaves angular, lobed or dissected ; 

 flowers 6 axillaiy, solitary, or in terminal racemes {South Extra- Trop. 

 America'). 



50. Hoheria A. Cunn. 8 — Calyx cyathiform, 5 dentate valvate. 

 Corolla of Sida. Staminal column 5-adelphous, apex finally divided 

 into oo filaments. Germen 5-locular 9 ; 1 descending ovule in 

 each cell ; micropyle introrse superior ; style branches 5, filiform, 

 peltate stigmatiferous at apex. Carpels indehiscent, dorsal wing 

 longitudinally simply tufted, separating from axis at maturity ; seed 

 descendent or rarely subhorizontal. — A subglabrous small tree ; leaves 



1 Diss., 38, t. 10, fig. 3.— J., Gen., 273.— 

 DC, Prodr., i. 458.— Endl , Gen., n. 5287. — 

 Payer, These Malvac, 17. — A. Geay, Gen. 

 Ill, t. 124.— B. H., Gen., 202, n. 13. 



2 Habit of Malcece. 



3 Violet or yellow. 



4 Spec. 7, 8. Keichb., Ic. Fxot., t. 34. — H. 

 B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 265.— C. GayJ 

 Fl. CMl., i. 314.— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 

 73. — Te. & Pi., in Ann. So. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 

 172.— Bot. Mag., t, 330.— Walp., Sep., i. 313; 

 ii. 791 ; Ann., iv. 310; vii. 391. 



5 Icon., v. 10, t. 418.— DC, Prodr., i. 458.— 



Endl., Gen., n. 5288. — Payee, These Malvac, 

 19.— B. H., Gen.. 202, n. 14. 

 v_ G Usually violet. 



7 Spec, ad 20. A. Geay, Amer. Expl. Exp., 

 Bot., i. 165.— Peesl., Bel. ffank., ii. 119.— 

 Cav., Diss., i. t. 4, fig. 2. — Lh^.e., Stirp., t. 57 

 (Sida). — Phil., in Linna>a, xxxiii. 28. — Bot. 

 Mag., t. 1673.— Waip., Rep., i. 313; Ann., i. 

 101 ; iv. 309 ; vii. 392. 



8 In Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 1. iii. 319 — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 5312.— B. H., Gen., 202, n. 12. 

 — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 283. 



Cells alternipetalous. 



