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POI'L'LAU FLORA, 



Invcilucel or outer cnlyx none. 



Flowers tli<ecious, small, white. Pods or cells i-seeded, 

 Flowers perfect. Colls of the pod 5 to 15. 



Seed only i in each cell. Flowers yellow or white, 

 Seeds 2 to 9 in each of the cells, 

 Anthers attached along the sides of the upper part of the slender column, 

 cells, and splittiii<,'into as many valves. 

 Involuccl of many tliread-shape<l leaves. 



Calyx splitting down one side when the flower opens. Pod long, 

 Calyx not splitting down one side. Pod short. Heeds naked, 

 Irivolucel of 3 heart-shaped toothed leaves. Seeds bearing wool, 



{Nap(va) Glade- Mallow. 



(Si (la) Si DA. 

 {Afiiitifii)}) Tndia.s-Mallow. 

 Pod of 3 to 5 



{Ahehndschns) *Okra. 



(Hibi'ncus) HiBl.SCUS. 



( (Jossypi u m ) *Cotton. 



317. StiniiMis dl" Miilldw ijiiltiil ill a tiil.i' (m()ii:idfl|jliiiiis). ;UH. .\ii author irwup mnKnlfiod. 319. Flow cis and leaf o* Marsh- 

 Mallow. If.li. It.i <'iiiiipoiiiiil |)istil iiiajLtiifled. ;21. I'imI of HlliiBciis siiniiiimlcd liy Uu: ciilyx ami liivulucfl. '3'-2. The ln.«l 

 spliltiiig into ."> valves. 



Mallow. Mdlva. 



Involucel or outer calyx 3-leaved. Petals notched at the upper and broader end. Styles many. 

 Little pods or cells many in a ring around a narrow axis or column (the whole shaped like a cheese), 

 when ripe falling away separately, each i-seed,ed. Herbs; flowering all summer. 



1. Low Mallow. Hoot very long; stems spreading on tlie ground ; leaves round-kidney-shaped, 



long-stalked, scarcely lobed, crenate ; flowers several in the axils, small, whitish. Very common 

 weed in waste and cultivated ground. M. rotundijoHa. 



2. High M. Stem 3° high ; leaves lobed ; flowers large, rose-purple. G.irden.s. M. si/fvestrk. 



3. MisK M. Stem 2° high ; leaves 5-parted and the divisions cut into linear lobes (the smell faintly 



musky) ; flowers large, rose-colour. Gardens. M. mosckala. 



4. Cl'ULKl) iM. Stem 4° to 6° high ; leaves round, toothed, much curled around the edge ; flowers 



small, white, sessile in the axils. Gardens. M, crispa. 



Hibiscus. Hihiscus. 



Flowers large, with an involucel of many narrow bractlets, and a 5-clcft calyx, which does not 

 <»pen down one side. Stamens in a long and slender column. Stigmas 5. Pod short, s-celled, 

 splitting wiien ripe into 5 valves, many seeded ; the seeds smooth or hairy, not long-woolly. Showy 

 lierbs or shrubs : flowering in autumn. 





