MALVACEÆ. 91 
with the micropyle looking outwards. This character has here, 
however, as elsewhere, a merely artificial’ value. To this subseries 
belong the allied genera Bastardia, Anoda, Cristaria, and the slightly 
exceptional genera Hoheria and Plagianthus: the former (fig. 143) 
remarkable for its carpels, surmounted by a dorsal and vertical wing ; 
the latter (fig. 142) is noticeable by its flowers, often reduced, which 
may have only one carpel to the gynæceum, and only one ovule in 
each carpel, and whose flowers are sometimes polygamous, but which 
in the most perfect species has a piuricarpellary gynæceum ; it is, 
however, quite inseparable from Sida. 
Abutilon (fig. 144) has given its name to a third subseries, in 
which, although all the organization is that of the Mallows, 
each carpel encloses more 
than one ovule, often two, 
ascending, with inferior and 
exterior micropyle, some- 
times a larger number; 
some ascending, others hori- 
zontal or descending. Beside 
. Abutilon striatum. 
Hoheria populnea. 
it is ranged in this small 
group the five nearly allied 
genera: Wissadula, Sphe- 

Tie. 143. 
. j, THD Fia, 144. 
Portion of the fruit? (3), “@/eea, Modiola, Howitta, 
Flower. 
and Aydia, which only differ 
from it by the number or absence of the bractlets of the epicalyx, or 
by the presence in the carpels of a more or less complete false trans- 
verse partition. 

IX. MALOPE SERIES. 
Malope® (figs. 145-148) has regular hermaphrodite flowers with 
convex receptacle very analogous in exterior to that of the Mallows. 
The calyx is gamosepalous with five lobes valvate reduplicate in the 

1 As demonstrated by the example of Malvella 3 Malope L.,n. 841.—J., Gen., 272.— LAM x., 
(see p. $0, note 2), the ovule of which is some- Dict., iii. 689; Suppl, iii, 582; ZU., t. 583.— 
times ascending and sometimes descending. [See DC., Prodr., i. 429.—Spacn, Suit. a Buffon, iii, 
also on this subject the Thèse of Payer (15, not.), 344.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5267.— PAYER, Organog., 
where the value of the direction of the ovuleis 40, t.8.—B. H., Gen., 200, n. 1.—H. By., in 
equally contested. ] Payer Fam. Nat., 283. 
? Fig. de Raoun, Ch. de Pl. N.-Zél., t. 26. 

