156 NATURAL IIISTORY OF PLANTS. 



lobed ; flowers 1 pedunculate axillary ; bractlets under flower 3-5, 

 small or deciduous 2 {Trop. Asia, Malaysia, Pac. Arch?). 



69 ? Fugosia JV — Flowers nearly of Gossypium (or Hibiscus) ; 

 calyx 5-fid, valvate. Staminal column dentate below apex, truncate 

 antherifcrous, filaments oo exserted. Germen 3, 4-locular; cells few 

 or oo-ovolate ; style clavate at apex 3, 4-sulcate or divided into 3, 

 4 short branches erect clavate stigmatiferous. Capsule loculicidal 3, 

 4-valved ; seeds subglobose, generally pubescent or Woolly ; embryo 

 scantily albuminous ; cotyledons 2, 3-plicate, base auriculate involving 

 short radicle. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; B leaves entire, lobed or 

 more rarely partite; flowers 6 generally solitary axillary pedun- 

 culate ; bractlets under flower 3-co , generally small or deciduous, 

 sometimes dentiform 7 {Warm America, Trop. Africa, Australia!'). 



70 ? Kosteletzkya Presl. 9 — Flowers nearly of Hibiscus ; filaments 

 of staminal column oo, exserted below entire or 5-dentate apex. 

 Germen 5-locular ; ovules solitary in cells ascending ; micropyle ex- 

 trose inferior; style branches 5, apex stigmatiferous capitate or 

 sometimes dilated. Capsule depressed, prominently 5-angled, locu- 

 licidal ; seeds solitary reniform ascending ; other characters of 

 Hibiscus. — Shrubs or herbs, usually hispid or scabrous ; leaves some- 

 times sagittate or angular-lobed ; flowers 10 solitary or more numerous 



1 Handsome, generally bright yellow. in Proceed. Amer. Acad. (1861), 450 (ex A 



2 A genus closely related to Gossypium, thence Gray). 



to Paritium among the Hibisci, and rather to 5 Habit of Hibiscus. 



be considered a section of those, more frequently 6 Handsome, generally bright yellow, 



distinguished by the character of style and " Better perhaps as one genus with Thespesia 



seed (see Garcke, he. cit.). and Hibiscus? 



3 Spec. 5, 6. Wight, Icon., t. 5, 8.— Seem., 8 Spec. 10-12, A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 

 Fl. Fit., 18.— Thw., Enum. PI. Zeyl., 27. — 251, t. 49, 50.— Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 219. 

 Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 221. — Mast., in Oliv. *— Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 208. — 

 Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 209.— Walp., Pep., i. 812 Pot. Mag., t. 4218, 4261.— Walp., Pep., i. 

 (part.). 307 ; v. 92 ; Ann., iv. 308 j vii. 408, 409 {Eli- 



4 Gen., 274. — DC., Prodr., i. 457. — Endl., durandia). 



Gen., n. 5279.— Payee, These Malvac, 2k — 9 Pel. Hank., ii. 130, t. 70.— DC, Prodr., 



B. H., Gen., 208, 439, 982, n. 36.— Cienfugosia i. 447.— Ene-l., Gen., n. 5276.— Payee, These 



Cav., Diss., 174, t. 72, fig. 2.— Gaecke, in Malvac., 20.— A. Gray, Gen. III., t. 132.— 



Bonplandia, viii. 148. — Cienfuegia W., Spec. B. H., Gen., 206, n. 29. — Thorntonia Keichb., 



PL, iii. 723. — Pedoulea Vent., Jard. Cels., Comp., 202 (part.). 



t. 11. — ? Bombycospermum Presl, Pel. i0 Bright yellow, pink or purple, corolla patent 



Hank., ii. 137, t. 71. — Elidurandia Buckl., or erect-convolute. 



