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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



62. Pavonia Cav. 1 — Calyx 5-fid, 5 -dentate, valvate. Corolla (of 

 Malvern*) connate at base with stamina] column, truncate at apex or 

 5 -dentate, bearing oo filaments outwardly and below ; anthers of 

 Malvea.* Germen 5-locular; cells alternipetalous (or sometimes 

 oppositipetalous) ; ovule 1 (of Urena) ; style branches 10 (placed as 

 in Urena), apex capitellate stigmatiferous. Carpels 5, separating 

 from axis at maturity, apex rotund or truncate, naked at back ; 

 cocci sometimes externally covered with mucilage (Lopimia") ; 

 1-3-aristate, naked at back, 1-3-aristate or 1-3-rostrate, sometimes 

 reticulate or echinulate, 5 sometimes but more rarely membranous-2- 

 winged indehiscent (Lebretonia'') or more or less high 2-valved (Astero- 

 clilama 7 ); seeds ascendent. — Shrubs, undershrubs or herbs, glabrescent 

 or oftener tomentose or hispid ; leaves usually angular or lobed ; 

 flowers 8 pedunculate, sometimes at apices of branchlets shortly race- 

 mose or capitate-congested; bract] ets under flower 5, or co,' J some- 

 times distinct, sometimes connate between themselves at base and 

 with base of calyx 10 (All warm regions of the Globe 11 ). 



G3 ? Malachra L." — Flowers nearly of Urena ; calyx 5-fid or 5- 



1 Diss., iii. 132, t. 45-47, 49.— Lame., Diet, 

 v. 102; Suppl., iv. 334; III, t. 585.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 442. — Endl., Gen., n. 5275 (port.). — 

 Spach, Suit, a Bvffon, iii. 363. — Payee, These 

 Malvac, 21 ; Organog., 38,- 1. 7. — H. Bn., in 

 Adansonia, ii. 176; in Payer Tarn. Nat.,2&Y. 

 — A. Dickson, in Adansonia, iv. 208, t. 6. — 

 A. Gray, Gen. III., t. 130.— B. H., Gen., 205, 

 n. -26. — Thorntonia Reichb., Comp., 202. — 

 Diplopenta Alep., in QZsir. Bot. z. Schr. 

 (1863), 10. 



2 Sometimes subaborted, subclosed. 



1 In P. hastata Cav., we sometimes see 

 flowers at every age 5-androus; staminal leaves 

 simple to the end, while in normal flowers they 

 finally become compound or lobate, that is poly- 

 androus (see Adansonia, ii. 176). For a plant 

 (nearly the same) see F. Mueller (in Hook. 

 Journ. viii. 8) under the generic name of Gree- 

 vesia (Benth., Fl, Austral., i. 207. — Walp., 

 Ann., vii. 400). 



4 Nee's & Mart., in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 

 t. 96,— DC, Prodr., i. 459. 



5 Not as in Urena, glochidnte. 



,; Schranck, PI. Par. Hurt. Monac., t. 90.— 

 PC, Prodr., i. 446. 



7 Oarcke, in Bot. Zeit. (1850), 666.. 



; White, pale yellow, golden, reddish, pink, 

 somewhat purple or violet. 



9 In sect. Lojiimia. 



10 "Gen. Urena et Malvavisco arete aff., in 

 sect. (pot. quam gen.) plures dividend., Botan. 

 system, sedulo commendatur." (B. II., Gen., 

 206.) Sect, ex Endl., 3 scil. : 1. Fvpavonia 

 {Pavonia Nees & Mart.) ; cocci dry muticous 

 or aristate at apex 2-valved incl. : Ti/phalea 

 (DC), Malache (Trew), Malvaviscoides (Ano- 

 tea DC) ; 2, Lopimia (Nles) ; 3, Lebretonia 



(SCHR.). 



11 Spec, ad 70, H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, 

 v. 279, t. 477.— A. S. H., PI. Us. Bras., t. 53; 

 Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 210, t. 44-47.— Wall., PL 

 As. Bar., i. 23, t. 26 {Urena). — Keicub., Ic. 

 KroL, t, 203, 215, 227.— C. Gay, Fl. CLil, i. 

 307.— Moric, PI. Now. Amer., t. 72-75. — 

 A. Rich., Fl. Cub., t. 13.— Thw., Enum. PI. 

 Zeyl., 26.— Geiseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 81.— 

 Tr. & Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 159. — 

 M \st., in Oliv. Fl. Prop. Afr., i. 189.— Harv. 

 & Sond., Fl. Cap., i. 169. — Benth., Fl. Aus- 

 tral., i. 207.— Bot. Beg., t. 339.— So*. Mag., 

 t. 3692 (lebretonia), 4365 (Lopimia).— Walp., 

 Sep., i. 297; ii. 789; v. 90; Ann., i. 100; ii. 

 140 ; iv. 303 ; vii. 399. 



'• Mantiss., n. 1266.— J., Gen., 272.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 440. — Endl., Gen., n. 5292. — Payer, 

 These Malvac, 20.— A. Gray, Gen. III., t. 129. 

 — B. H., Gen., 205, n. 24. 



