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54. Sphseralcea A. S. H.' — Flowers nearly of Abutilon ; ovary 

 cells co , 2_3-ovulate ; disk hypogynous, sometimes smooth, 5-lobed 

 (Afeliphlea 2 ). Carpels co , apex rotund, truncate, muticous, or dorsally 

 angulate, or 2 -bristled, separating from axis at maturity, 2-valved. 

 — Shrubs, undershrubs, or herbs (habit of Malva and Malvastrum) ; 

 leaves usually angular or lobed ; flowers 3 axillary or in spikes, or termi- 

 nal racemes ; pedicels long, or oftener very short almost wanting, 

 solitary or fasciculate-cymose ; bractlets 3, sometimes more or less 

 shortly connate into involucel under flower {Anisodontea, 3Ieliphlea 4 ), 

 or oftener free {Warm America, South Australia*). 



55. Modiola Mcench. 6 — - Flowers of Abutilon (or Sjjhceralcea), style 

 branches co (equal in number to cells), filiform, apex capitate stig- 

 matiferous. Carpels co ; dorsally 2-bristled, 2-valved inwardly be- 

 tween seeds, transversely septate, separating from axis at maturity ; 

 seeds reniform ; other characters of Sphceralcea. — A herb throwing 

 out prostrate roots at base ; leaves partite ; flowers 7 axillary, pedun- 

 culate, 8 bractlets 3, free under flower {America and South Africa 9 ). 



56. Howittia F. Muell. 10 — Calvx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla of Malva. 

 Stamens co {of Sida). Staminal column divided into filaments at apex, 

 Grermen 3-locular; ovules in each cell 2, collaterally ascending ; style 

 branches 3, apex capitate stigmatiferous. Capsule 11 depressed-globose 

 muticous, loculicidal ; valves 3, inwardly septiferous at middle ; seeds 

 ascendent ; cotyledons 3-fid. — A sarmentose stellate tomentose shrub ; 

 flowers 12 axillary solitary pedunculate, ebracteolate {Australia™). 



1 PI. Us. Brasil.,t,52.—VC., Prodi:, i. 435. — B. H., Gen., 205, n. 23.— A. Geay, Gen. 



— Endl... Gen., n. 5272.— Payee, These Mai- III,, t. 128.— Haynea Reichb., Consp., 202. 

 vac, 5, 23.— A Geay, Gen. Ill, t, 69.— B. EL, 7 Small, red. 



Gen., 204, n. 22. — Sphceroma Schltl, in 8 Perhaps better as a section of Sphceralcea, 



Lvnncea, xi. 352. — Fhymosia Desvx., in Sam. if distinguished from Abutilon or Wissadula 



Prod,: Fl. Lid. Occ, 49. with septate carpels ? 



3 Zucc, in Abk. Ale. Man., ii. 359, t. 9. 9 Spec. 1 (?) M. caroliniana. — M. mullifida 



3 Red, carnation or violet. M(ENOH, loc. cit. — A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 



4 Presl, Pot. Pern., 18.— Sphceroma Haev., 210, t. 43.— Wale., Rep., i. 296.— Malva caro- 

 Fl. Cap., i. 166. Union* L., Spec, 969. 



5 Spec, ad 25, quar. 4 capens— Jacq., Sort. 10 la Sook. Journ., viii. 9 ; PI. Vict., i. 167, 

 Sehcenbr., t. 293 ( Malva).— Cat., Diss., ii. 1. 16, t. 4.— B. H., Gen., 203, n. 18. 



fig. l,t.20,fig. 1; Ic,t. 9b (Malva).— A. S. U.,Fl. u Nearly as in- Sibiseus Pombycellis, but 



Bras. Mer., i. 209.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iii. habit of plant and androceum cmite of Sida. 



357.— Haev. & Sond , Fl. Cap., i. 165.— Bot. u Somewhat purple. 



Mag.,t. 2544, 27S7,2839 (J/«Z«?).— Walp., Rep., 13 Spec. 1. H. triloculare F. Muell., loc 



i. 296; ii. 789; Ann., i. 100; ii. 140; vii. 397. cit.— Bentii., Fl. Austral., i. 198.— Walp., 



6 Meth., 620. — DC, Prodr., i. 435. — Endl., Ann., vii. 395. 

 Gen., n. 5273, — Payee, These Malvac, 6, 22. 



