150 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



57. Kydia Roxn.' — Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous- 

 dioecious. Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla rather short (malvaceous). 

 Stamens co ; apex of column divided into 5 branches ; anthers 

 (barren in female flowers, shortly stipitate) at apex of each branchiet 

 2-1 0, sessile globose-capitate, 1-locular, wide 2-valved. Germen 2, 

 3-locular; ovules in each cell 2, ascending; micropyle extrorse in- 

 ferior; style branches 2, 3, apex stigmatiferous dilated or wide 

 peltate (in male flowers short placed on the abortive germen). Capsule 

 depressed-globose muticous loculicidal ; seeds ascending, reniform 

 windless ; embryo ? — Trees thinly stellate-tomentose ; leaves alter- 

 nate, entire or lobed, digitinerved ; flowers in large much ramified 

 cymiferous racemes ; bractlets 4-6, foliaceous, patent under fruit 2 

 (Fas fern India 3 ). 



IX. MALOPEjE. 



58. Malope L. — Calyx 5-fid, valvate, contorted corolla, and 

 stamens of Malva. Carpels oo , inserted on the convex receptacle, 

 distinct. Germen in each 1-locular ; style filiform, inwardly longitudi- 

 nally stigmatiferous. One ovule in each germen inwardly inserted 

 above the base, ascendent ; micropyle extrorse inferior. Achenes go, 

 distinct, irregularly inserted on the globose receptacle, multiplicate 

 capitate-congested in fruit, finally deciduous, indehiscent ; seed 

 ascendent (of Malva). — Annual herbs ; leaves alternate stipulate, 

 entire or 3-fid, glabrous or pilose ; flowers pedunculate ; bractlets 

 3, large cordate, distinct, in verticillate involucel (sometimes 

 wide membranous) under flower (Mediterranean region). See p. 91. 



59. Kitaibelia W. 4 — Flowers 5-merous (of Malope) ; styles 

 filiform, apex inwardly stigmatiferous. Carpels cc, 5 finally congested 



1 PL Coromand., Hi. 11, t. 215, 216.— Spacit, 3 g peC- 2 (?). Wight & Abn., Prodr., i. 69. 

 Suit, a Buffon, iii. 456.— DC, Prodr., i. 500. —Wight, Icon., t. 879-881.— Thw., En. PI. 

 — Endl., Gen., n. 5353.— B. H., Gen., 203, n. Zeyl., 30. 



19, ' 4 In Keue Sc7ir. Nat. Fr. Perl,, ii. 107. — 



2 "Gen. ab auctt. Bueitneriaceis adscit. ; DC, Prodr., i. 436. — Endl., Gen., n. 5268. — 

 sed antliera) . . . omnino Sidce. Bracteolse et B. H., Gen,, 200, n. 2. 



capsula tere Hibiscearum, sed column, stam. 5 Concerning the evolutions of which see 



Abutilearum, inter quas Howittim accedit." (B. Pater, Organog., 34, t. 8. Styles filiform, bran- 



H., loc. cit,). ches inwardly stigmatiferous at apex. 



