MALVACEÆ. 137 
3, sessile, oppositipetalous, 2-celled ; cells separate, more or less irre- 
gularly congested,’ extrosely rimose. Ovary sessile, 5-celled; styles 
connate in subulate cone, minute stigmatiferous at apex; cells o- 
ovulate® Fruit?—Small trees; leaves alternate, petiolate, ob- 
long, entire ; flowers’ in pedunculate cymes growing from the wood, 
sometimes very long or axillary, short (Zropical and Western 
Africa’). 
31. Leptonychia Turcz.’—Sepals 5, reduplicate, valvate. Petals 
same in number, alternate, short, concave, rather thick valvate, 
inserted at a little height. Stamens 15-50, connate at base in 
short urceolus, 5 sterile, antherless, small, interior, alternipetalous ; 
other in 5-phalanges, oppositipetalous; 2 fertile in each ; fila- 
ments elongate-subulate ; anther-cells 2, extrorse, sublateral, 2- 
rimose ; exterior to preceding 2—4 antherless. Germen free; cells 
5, oppositipetalous, or more rarely 3, 4, œ-ovulate; style slender, 
subulate, not swollen at apex, more or less 3-5-fid. Fruit cap- 
sular, loculicidal, 3-5-valved; seeds arillate; embryo straight ; 
cotyledons thick foliaceous, obscurely lobed, 3-costate ; albumen 
corneous.—Shrubs or small trees; leaves alternate, entire, penni- 
nerved, sometimes 3-nerved at base; stipules very small or very 
caducous; flowers’ in short axillary cymes, often few flowered 
(Tropical and Western Africa and Indian Archipelago’). 
32. Abroma Jacqg.—Calyx 5-partite, valvate. Petals 5; claw 
dilated, concave, interior wide glanduliferous, traversed by vertical 
prominent (coloured) lines ; lamin stipitate, sometimes spathulate, 
finally patent ; præfloration contorted. Stamens connate in urceolus ; 
lobes 5, antherless, alternipetalous, sometimes obcordate ; anthers 

1 Anthers 6, 1-celled (?). 
? Ovules “amphitropous” in 
1-seriate. 
3 “ Bright yellow.” In Z. longepedunculata 
Masr., peduncles thence laden with filamentous 
rootlets or abortive (?) pedicels. 
4 Spec. 3, Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 
236. 
5 In Bull. Mose. (1858), i. 222.—B. H., 
Gen., 237, n. 25, 983, n. 30 6.—OUDEM., in 
Compt. Rend. Ac, Sc., sér. 2, i. tab,—Bocg., in 
adult flower 
Adansonia, vii. 35.—Binnendykia Kurz, in 
Nat. Tijd. v. Ned. Ind., ser. nov., iii, 164. 
6 White. 
7 Spec. 4, of which 2 are African, Masv., in 
Oliv. Fl, Trop. Afr., i. 238.—Watp., Ann., vii. 
449. 
8 Hort. Vindob., iii. t. 1.—J., Gen., 276.— 
GæRIN., Fruct., i. 306, t. 64.—DC., Prodr., 
i, 485.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5330.—B. H., Gen., 
225, 983, n. 27.—Ambroma L. ¥., Suppl. 341. 
—Lamx., Dict., i. 126; Til., t. 636, 637.—Has- 
tingia Kaen, (ex ENDL). 
