130 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
fertile ; base of filaments connate in a short cupulate tube ; anthers 
stipitate erect ; cells parallel. Other characters like Dombeya.—A 
stellate-tomentose tree ; leaves large cordate (of Dombeya) ; flowers’ 
in compound axillary pedunculate cymes (Borbonia’). 
15. Ruizia Cav.°—Flowers nearly of Dombeya; stamens 20-30, 
all fertile. Ovary sessile, 10-celled ; ovules in each cell 2, ascending ; 
micropyle extorse inferior ; style branches 10, short. Ripe carpels 10, 
in capsule subglobose-depressed verticillate, separating at maturity 
and opening at central angle, 1—2-spermous.—Shrubs ; leaves palmi- 
nerved, subentire, lobed or dissected ;* flowers in ramified pedun- 
culate axillary cymes, 3-bracteolate’ (Jascarene Islands’). 
16. Pentapetes L.’—Flowers nearly of Dombeya; anthers be- 
tween the staminodes ligulate fertile 2, 3, erect. Ovary sessile ; cells 
cx-ovulate ; style elongate entire, stigmatiferous slightly swollen at 
apex. Capsule loculicidal; placentas nerviform, plumose, often 
separating. Seeds & (of Dombeya).—A herb ; leaves hastate, narrow 
at apex; flowers axillary solitary shortly pedunculate; bractlets 3, 
1-lateral, caducous (Zropical Asia’). 
17. Cheirolæna Brnrn.’—Calyx 5-partite, exterior lepidote, val- 
vate. Petals 5, flat, wide, contorted, shortly adnate with staminal 
column deciduous or caducous. Stamens 15-20; exterior 10-15, 
fertile (of which 5 are interior longer, alternipetalous") ; filaments 
adnate to the exterior of tubular column; anthers extrorse, 
2-celled, 2-rimose; 5 interior oppositipetalous petaloid. Germen 
sessile ; cells 5, alternipetalous ; ovules 2- in each cell, inserted at 
central angle, ascending; micropyle extrorse inferior; styles 5, 
coalescing in a central column, finally separating at a greater 

1 Rose colour, Gen., n. 53843. — B. H., Gen., 222, n. 18, — 
2 Spec. 1. A. rosea LINDL., loc. 
Watpr., Rep., v. 113. 
3 Diss., iii. 117, t. 36, 37.—J., Gen., 275 
DC., Prodr., 1. 497.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5342.— 
B. H., Gen., 221, n. 18. 
4 Underneath tomentose whitish, 
5 A genus only distinguished from Aséiria 
by the number of ovary cells, 
6 Spee. 2,3. Jacg., Hort. Schenbr., iii. 24, 
t. 295.—Watp., Rep., ii. 797. 
7 Gen., n. 834.—DC., Prodr., i, 498.—ENDz., 
Moranda Scor., Introd., n.1312,—? Erioraphe 
MiqQ., in Pl, Jungh., i. 289. 
8 Species 1, introduced into all the warm regions 
of the globe. P. phanicea L., Spec., 958.— 
Mitu., Icon., t. 200.—Kerr, in Bot. Reg. t. 
575.—Dombeya phenicea CAV., Diss., iii. t. 43, 
fig. 1. 
9 Gen., 222, n. 16. 
1 But 5-10 shorter exterior to the preceding, 
either single or in pairs oppositipetalous, 
