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axillary, sometimes in simple or ramified racemes ; bractlets under 

 calyx 7-10, sometimes small or {Warm Jmerica 1 ). 



71. Decasehistia Wight & Arn. 2 — Flowers nearly of Hibiscus (or 

 Kbsteletzhyd) ; filaments of staminal column go, exserted below apex. 

 Germen 10-locular; cells 1 -ovulate; style branches, 10 apex capitel- 

 late stigmatiferous. Capsule loculicidal 10-valved; seeds reniform 

 ascending : micropyle extrorse inferior. — Shrubs or herbs, tomentose ; 

 leaves entire or lobed ; flowers in upper axils solitary or glomerate 

 at summit of branchlets, shortly pedicellate ; bractlets 10, verticillate 

 under flower {Eastern India 3 ). 



72. Julostyles Thw. 4 — Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Petals (spotted in 

 lower part), base connate in cupuliform corolla. Stamens 10, 2- 

 seriate ; filaments connate in column 5-dentate at apex. 4 Germen 

 2-locular ; ovules in each cell 2, collaterally ascending ; micropyle ex- 

 trorse inferior ; style branches 2, densely woolly, apex wide peltate- 

 stigmatiferous. Capsule globose stellate-hispid, 2-valved de- 

 hiscing (?). — A tree ; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire 

 3-nerved at base ; flowers crowded in large much ramified pendulous 

 cymes, surrounded by epicalyx of 4 bracts, wide subconnate at base, 

 constant, longer than calyx {Zeylania*). 



73. Dicellostyles Benth. 7 — Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla nearly 

 of Julostyles. Stamens co ; column short, filaments go, exserted below 

 apex. Germen 2-locular (nearly of Julostyles) ; style branches 2, 

 at apex wide globose stigmatiferous. Capsule globose stellate-hispid, 

 8-costate ; cocci 2, indehiscent solute from axis ; seed (solitary by abor- 

 tion in each coccus) reniform ascending ; albumen fleshy ; embryo in- 



1 Spec, ad 5. Cav., Diss., iii. t. 50 {Hibiscus). 3 Spec. 2. Walp., Sep., i. 312. 



— DC, Prodr., i. 447 (Hibisci sect. Penta- 4 Thw., Enum. PI. Zeyl., 30. — B. H., Gen., 



spermum). — Griseb., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 83.— 207, n. 3J. 



Turcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 192. — Te. & 5 Pollen of Hibiscus. Perianth, also and au- 



Pl., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 4, xviu 165. — Walp., thers as in Malvern (not Sterculia). 



Rep., i. 302; Ann., i. 100; ii. 142; iv. 304; 6 Spec. 1. J. angustifolia Thw., loc. cit.— 



vii. 401. Walp., Ann., vii. 402. — Kydia angustifolia 



2 Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind., 52 ; Icon., t. 42, Arn. 



88.— Endl., Gen., n. 5285.— Payee, These 7 Gen., 207, n. 32. 



Malvac., 20 —P>. H., Gen., 206, n. 30. 



