88 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
gynobasic, divided into as many slender thread-like branches as 
there are cells in the ovary. Within, on each branch of the style, 
there is a longitudinal groove more or less decided, with lips fur- 
nished with stigmatic papillæ. There is in each cell, towards the 
base of the internal angle a placenta supporting a single anatropous 
ascending ovule, with the micropyle looking- downwards and out- 
wards.’ The fruit, accompanied by the persistent calyx, is dry, formed 
of a verticil of achenes which, at maturity, separate from each 
other, and are detached from the common receptacle. Each of 
them encloses an ascending seed, containing under its coats an 
embryo with inferior radicle, and cotyledons contortuplicate, 
crumpled, more or less folded upon themselves, and enveloping 
the radicle to a greater or less extent. The albumen is totally 
wanting at maturity, or is only represented by small mucilaginous 
masses interposed to the folds of the embryo (fig. 140). The Mallows 
are herbaceous or suflrutescent plants, slightly glabrous and covered 
with hairs. They have alternate, petiolate leaves, accompanied by two 
lateral, generally large, foliaceous stipules. The limb is ordinarily 
digitate-nerved, dentate, angular, lobed or dissected. The flowers? 
are solitary, or usually united in cymes in the axils of the leaves 
with pedicels sometimes short or even almost wanting. When the 
leaves towards the summit of the branches are replaced by bracts, 
the cymes situated in the axil of these are arranged in more 
or less elongated racemes. Immediately under each flower are 
found three free foliaceous bracts, which form the involucel or the 
subcalyx. Fifteen or sixteen species’ of Mallows proper are known ; 
they inhabit Europe, the temperate regions of Asia, North Africa, 
and some of them have penetrated into all parts of the world. — 
Under the name of Callirhoc, six or seven’ Mallows of North 

There are two coats in most Malvaceae. 
Pink, white or purple. 
Cay., Diss., ii. v. icon—Reicus., Ze. Fi. 
Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 177.—Bot. 
Reg., t. 1806.— Bot. Mag., t. 1998, 2179, 2298, 
3698, 4681.—Watp., Rep., i. 292; Ann, i. 99; 
1 
2 
3 
Germ., v. t. 166-172.—GREN. et Gopr., Fl. de 
Fr, i, 238.—Wieunt Icon, t. 950.—Jaca., 
Hort. Schœnbr., t. 139; Ic. Rar., t. 139; Hort. 
Vindob., t. 35, 141, 156.—Torr. et Gray, F1. 
N.-Amer., i. 225.—H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., 
v. 274,—A. 8S. H., Fl. Bras, Mer., i, 213.—A. 
Gray, Man. ed. 5, 66.—Grisez., Fl. Brit. 
W-Ind., 72 (Malvastrum).—Tr. et Pu. in Ann, 
Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 153.—HaRv. et Sonn. F7. 
Cap., i. 159.—BeEntTH., Fl. Austral., i. 186.— 
ii. 139; iv. 297 (part.); vii. 386. 
4 Num. in Journ. Acad. Philad., ii. 181.— 
A. Gray, Gen. Jil., t. 117, 118.—H. B., Gen., 
201, n. 7.—Nuttallia Bart., Fl. N.-Amer., ii. 
74, t. 62 (nee DC,, nec Torr., nec DicKs.). 
5 Hoox., ÆExot. Fl., t. 171, 172; in Bot. 
Mag., t. 3287 (Nuttallia)— Bot. Reg., t. 1938 
(Nuttallia)—Watp., Ann, ii, 149; iv. 298 
(Malwa) ; vii. 388. 
