MALVACEZ. 135 
dentate ; flowers' in cymes, usually much ramified axillary, lateral, 
sub-leaf-opposed or more rarely terminal (7ropical Asia and Australia’). 
26? Rulingia R. Br.*—Flowers nearly of Commersonia ; base of 
petals wide concave, laterally subauriculate, above (sometimes 
shorty) ligulate. Staminodes 5, alternipetalous, ligulate, connivent 
or patent. Germen sessile; cells oppositipetalous, sometimes free at 
apex; styles more or less connate and coalescing ; ovules 2 in each 
cell, ascending; micropyle extrorse and inferior. Capsule tomentose 
or echinate, sometimes covered with soft hairs, loculicidal, 5-valved, 
or carpels separating 2-valved, 1-spermous. Seeds ascendent, aril- 
late ; embryo albuminous ; cotyledons flat.—Shrubs or undershrubs ; 
hairs stellate; leaves entire, dentate or lobed; flowers’ as in Com- 
mersonia ( Australia’ and Madagascar’). 
27. Theobroma L.—Flowers hermaphrodite; calyx 5-fid, or 
5-partite valvate ; petals 5, shortly unguiculate, afterwards cucullate- 
concave above, the cucullus inflexed, produced in spathulate laminæ 
with narrow base ; præfloration contorted. Stamens shortly connate 
at base in urceolus ; sterile 5 alternipetalous, linear or lanceolate ; the 
fertile in pairs, oppositipetalous ; each cell lateral, extrorsely rimose, 
or more rarely 3-nate; cells 6; filaments all erect, stipitate. 
Ovary 5-celled ; cells oppositipetalous -ovulate ; ovules 2-seriate ; 
styles filiform, connate to a greater or less height; apex not at all 
or scarcely thickened stigmatiferous. Fruit baccate, finally dry, 
suberose-ligneous, longitudinally 5—10-costate, indehiscent. Seeds 
o#, nidulant in pulp ; embryo large, rather fleshy ; cotyledons thick, 

1 Small, close. 
2 Spec. 7, 8, RuUMPH., Herb. Amboin., iii. 
t. 119 (Restiaria) ?—H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et 
Spec., v. 311, not.—A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., 
i, 140, not.—ANDr., in Bot, Repos., t. 519.— 
GUILLEM., in Ann, Sc. Nat., sér. 2, vii. 365,— 
SEEM., Fl. Vit., 25.—BENTH., Fl. Austral., i. 
241.— Bot. Mag., t. 1813.— Watp., Rep. 
ni. 795 ; v. 110; Ann., i. 107; iv. 322; vii. 433. 
3 In Bot. Mag., t. 2191, 3182—A. S. H., 
Fil. Bras. Mer., i. 140, not.—EnpL., Gen., n. 
5328.—H. BN., in Adansonia, ix. 342.—B. H., 
Gen,, 226, 983, n. 33.—Achilleopsis TURCZ., in 
Bull, Mosc. (1849), ii. 165. 
4 Small, often whitish. 
5 A Genus, especially by the species with short 
ligulate petals, closely connecting the true Buett- 
neriæ with the Lasiopetale, and sometimes 
with difficulty distinguished from them. 
6 Spec. ad 13, J. Gay, in Mem. Mus., x. t. 
12, 13 (Buettneria).—STesrz, in Pl, Preiss., ii. 
352.—EnpL., in Hueg. Enum., 12.—TURCZ., in 
Bull. Mose, (1852), ii. 151.—F, MueL., Fragm., 
i. 68.—Bentu., Fl. Austral., i. 237.—Bot. 
Mag., t. 3182.—WAaLr., Rep., i. 337; Ann., ii, 
165 ; vii. 432. 
7 Species 1, imperfectly known. 
