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dentate. Carpels 5, separating from axis at maturity, obovoid, 

 membranous or coriaceous, indehiscent, or slightly dehiscent at 

 inner angle ; seeds reniform ascending, and other characters of 

 Urena.— Hispid herbs ; leaves angular or lobed ; flowers 1 con- 

 gested in dense capitula axillary or terminal, bracts foliaceous, in- 

 volucrate ; bractlets unequal sometimes foliaceous irregularly mingled 

 with flowers or 2 (Warm America 2 ). 



64 ? Gcethea Nees & Mart. 4 — Flowers nearly of Urena ; calyx 

 5 -fid, valvate or sub reduplicate and petals short. Stamens co ; 

 apex of column 5-dentate, filament exserted below apex. Germen 

 and style (1 O-branched) of Urena ; cells 5, alternipetalous. Carpels 

 5, separating from axis at maturity, apex rotund muticous, indehis- 

 cent ; seeds ascending, micropyle introrse inferior. Other characters 

 of Urena. — Shrubs ; leaves entire or remote and unequally dentate ; 

 flowers 5 axillary solitary or very often growing from woody stems 

 (showing cicatrices of long-since fallen leaves) cymose ; bractlets 5, 

 oppositisepalous, or 4-6, large including coloured calyx 6 (Brazil 7 ). 



65. Malvaviscus Dill. 8 — Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla and 

 stamens of Urena ; staminal column truncate below apex, filaments 

 go exserted. Germen 5-locular ; cells oppositipetalous, 1-ovulate; 

 style branches 10 (of which 5, alternate with the lobes), apex capi- 

 tellate stigmatiferous. Fruit subglobose baccate; carpels finally 

 separating from axis, indehiscent ; ascendent seed, and other charac- 

 ters of Urena. — Small trees, or shrubs, sometimes hispid; leaves 



1 Whitish or pale yellow. 5 Often red. 



2 Genus better as a section of Urena. (?) 6 A genus differing from Urena sect. Pavonia 



3 Spec, about 5 (of which 2 have been intro- only in the proportion and inflorescence of its 

 duced into the warm regions of the Old World, perianth and in its inflato-vesicular involucel. 

 and are widely dispersed there). Cat., Diss., ii. t. " Spec. 3. Bot. Mag., t. 4677. — Walp., Ann., 

 33, fig. 2. — J acq., 1c. Ear., t. 548, 549.— iv. 303 ; vii. 401. 



DO, PI. Ear. Jard. Gen., iv. t. 5.— A. S. H., 8 Elth., 210, t. 170, fig. 208.— Cay., Diss., 



Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 216. — Te. & Pi., in Ann, So. iii. 131, t. 48, fig. 1 (nee G^etn.). — UO, 



Nat., ser. 4, xvii. 180. — Ttjbcz., in Bull. Mose. Prodr., i. 445. — Endl., Gen., n. 5278. — 



(1858), i. 205. — Bot. Beg., t. 467. — Walp., Payee, These Malvac., 7, 20 ; Organog., 36, t. 



Eep., i. 322; v. 95; Ann., i. 104; ii. 156; vii. 398. 6. — H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 281. — A. 



4 In Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 91, t. 8 (r.ec Geay, Gen. III., t. 131.— B. H., Gen., 206, n. 

 7)_DC., Prodr., i. 501. — Endl., Gen., n. 5275 28.— Achania Sw., Prodr., 102; Fl. Ind. Occ, 

 d. — Gaecke, in Bonflandia, ix. 18.— B. H., 1222. 



Gen., 206, n. 27. — Schouwia Schkad., in Gustt. 

 Gel. Anzeig. (1821), 717 (ex Endl.). 



