MALVACE 2. 129 
Ill. DOMBEYEÆ. 
12. Dombeya Cav.—F lowers hermaphrodite, usually 5-merous ; 
calyx 5-partite, valvate, finally reflexed. Petals 5, of unequal sides, 
contorted, usually persistent, finally pergameneous or scarious. Sta- 
mens 15-30 (or more rarely more); filaments connate in column at 
base, sometimes cupuliform, sometimes elongate tubular; 5 sterile, 
ligulate, oppositipetalous ; 10-25 fertile, alternating in pairs, or by 
3-5 with the staminodes; anthers extrorse, 2-celled, 2-rimose. 
Ovary free; cells 5, alternipetalous, or rarely 2-4 ; ovules 2 in each 
cell, ascending; micropyle extrorse, inferior; style divided at a 
greater or less height into 5 branches stigmatiferous at apex. 
Capsule 2—5-celled, loculicidal. Seeds 1, 2, in each cell, ascending ; 
embryo albuminous; cotyledons foliaceous, 2-partite; radicle in- 
ferior.—Shrubs or small trees; leaves alternate, stipulate, palmi- 
nerved, often cordate ; flowers in axillary or terminal, loose or capi- 
tate, corymbiform or umbelliferous cymes; inflorescence sometimes 
with bracts (Astrapea) widely involucrate; bractlets 3, under each 
flower, unilateral, caducous, sometimes connate (Zropical Southern 
continental and insular Oriental Africa, Trop. Asia ?). See p. 69. 
13. Trochetia DC.'—Flowers nearly of Domdeya ; sepals coria- 
ceous. Stamens fertile between the staminodes 2— 0, more rarely 5 ;? 
cells parallel. Ovary 3-5-celled; cells 2 or oftener c-ovulate; 
branches of style thick radiate, stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule 
loculicidal 5-valved ; cells 2-0 -spermous.—Shrubs or small trees ; 
leaves alternate entire coriaceous; flowers’ axillary solitary or few 
(often 3), sometimes ©, cymose, often pendulous (S¢. Helena,! 
Tropical insular Oriental Africa’). 
14? Astiria Linvu.’—Flowers of Dombeya ; stamens 20-30, all 

1 DC., in Mém. Mus., x. 106, t. 7, 8; Prodr., 
i, 499,—Turp., in Dict. Se. Nat., Atl., t. 145.— 
ENDL., Gen., n. 5351.—B. H., Gen., 222, 983, 
n. 17. 
2 «Tn spec. helenicis.” . (B. H.) 
# Large, beautiful, often white or yellowish. 
VOL. IV. 
4 Species 2, now said to be extinct. 
5 Bot. Reg. (1844), t. 21.— Bot. Mag, t. 
1000.—Bos., Hort. Maur, A1.—H, B\., in 
Adansonia, x, 108.—WALr., Rep., v. 114, 
5 Bot, Reg. (1844), t. 49.—B. H., Gen., 221, 
n. 14, 
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