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lanceolata, subrhomboidea, basiattenuata, 3-nervia, sub-ascendentia, serrato-dentata, acuta, utrinque 

 pubescentia, supfà saturatè viridia, subtùs pallidiora. Petioli 2 lin. longi, cylindracei, tomentosi. Sti- 

 pula petiolis subbreviores, lineares, tomentosae. Pedicelli in axillis foliorum plures aut solitarii, 1-mul- 

 ti-flori, 2-6 lin. longi, apice foliosi, cymosi, subdichotomi, flores pedicellulatos gerentes. Calïx 

 5-phyllus, rotundatus, basi planus, 10-nervius, foliolis ultra médium coalitis, birsutis, ciliatis, apicu- 

 latis. Petala fulva , venosa, calyce duplô longiora. Androeciom incurvum , apice in stigmata plu- 

 riina divisum. Styli ad médium usque coaliti, glabri. Stigmata capitellata. Ovaricm ovato-subrotun- 

 dum, apice crenulatum et styli basi persistente apiculatum. Ovula solitaria , pendula. Columella in- 

 clusa , in membranam basilarem margine erosam , plicis 10 elevatis , et in filamenta produc- 

 tis, extensam. Cocca 1 ; lin. longa, rugosa, pubescentia, dorso rufescentia, subgibba, apice demùm 

 extra debiscentia, bifurcato-cuspidata. Semina 1. lin. longa, pendula, fusca, subtrigona, apice crenata, 

 crenulae latere interiore producto recurvo. Testa crustacea cum tegmine coalita. Chlamys perispermica 

 tenuis, alba. Perispermium ad i\mbilicum mucilaginosum. Embryo abrupte curvatus. Radicula cylin- 

 dracea, gracilis, acuta , longitudine ferè cotyledonum. Cotvledones flexuoso-plicatœ» foliacé», ovatfp. 

 subacutae, basi rotundata;, petiolulata?. 



ABUTILON. Kunth. 



Câlyx simplex, 5-phyllus, persistens, foliolis ultra médium con- 

 natîs. Petala 5, hypogyna, sequalia, aut aliquando inaequilatera, 

 patentia. Androecium unguibus petalorum adnatum , filamentis om- 

 nibus usque ad tubi apicem coalitis, aut rariùs quibusdam ante 

 apicem liberis. Ovarium supcrum, 6-multi-loculare, loculis 3-rariùs 

 4-9-ovulatis. Ovula angulo interno affîxa, superiùs ascendens, mé- 

 dium peritropium, inferiùs reversum, pendulum. Columella brevis, 

 ïnclusa, styli basi persistente apiculata, membranâ basilari nullâ. 

 Styli tôt quot loculi, basi plus minus coaliti. Stigmata capitellata. 

 Capsula orbiculato-depressa, aut vesicaria, supernè mutica, aut 

 2-cuspidata, 5-poly-cocca, coccis 3-rariùs 4-9-spermis, aut abortu 

 1 spermis, inter se insolubiliter coalitis, aut demùm maturitate 

 solutis, apice déhiscent ibus. Semina subreniformia. Embryo cur- 

 vatus, semicircularis. 



Herb.«, suffrutices, frutices, aut arbores orbis aïquinoctialis, undè 

 boream versus species aliquot in Carolinam, ÂEgyptum, Canarias et 

 Maderam, unica in Europam meridionalem evasit. Folia alterna, 



