MALVACEÆ. 139 
5, concave at base, lanceolate-oblong, apex long acuminate, 
inflexed in bud. Stamens o, in 5 alternipetalous fascicles; each 
fascicle terminating a narrow petaloid lanceolate staminode, bear- 
ing externally æ (oflen 6) anthers, extrorse, 2-locular, 2-rimose. 
Germen sessile, 5-angled; styles short 5, more or less con- 
nivent or connate, stigmatiferous at apex; cells 5, oppositipetalous, 
o-ovulate. Capsule 5-celled, polyspermous, outwardly much 
echinate, finally loculicidally and septicidally dehiscent. Seed 
subpisiform, glabrous ; embryo (scantily albuminous ?) ; cotyledons 
foliaceous, contortuplicate. — A stellate-tomentose shrub; leaves 
alternate, large, palminerved, dentate ; flowers’ in terminal clusters 
of much ramified corymbose cymes (Persia). 

VII. LASIOPETALE. 
35. Lasiopetalum Su.—F lowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle small, 
slightly convex or depressed. Calyx often coloured, 5-partite or 5-fid, 
angular or subterete; præfloration valvate or reduplicate. Petals 
5, minute, squamiform, sometimes very small or 0. Fertile stamens 
5, oppositipetalous, free or at base slightly monadelphous ; anthers 
extrorse ; cells externally (or internally) subporricidal at apex 
or dehiscing by short clefls. Germen 5-locular; cells oppositi- 
petalous (sometimes 3, 4-locular) ; ovules 2-2 (2-seriate) ascending ; 
micropyle extrorse, inferior ; style subentire, stigmatiferous at apex. 
Capsule 3-5-locular, loculicidal ; seeds 1-2, ascending ; micropyle 
sometimes arillate ; embryo albuminous, straight; cotyledons flat ; 
radicle inferior.—Shrubs, clothed with stellate hairs, sometimes 
dense; leaves alternate or falsely verticillate, more rarely opposite, 
entire, dentate, or sinuate, sometimes but rarely lobed; stipules Q or 
small, assuming the appearance of leaves ; flowers in false racemes, 
simple or ramified, cymiferous, lateral or leaf-opposed, sometimes 
subaxillary ; cymes often l-parous; bracts and bractlets 2, often 
united below flower similar to an epicalyx (Hvtra-tropical Australia). 
See p. 84.° 

311, not.—EnDz., Gen., n. 5350.—B. H., Gen., 1 « Pink,” 
224, n. 26,—Masr., in Journ. Linn, Soc., x. 17. ? Spec. 1, G. Bruguieri Drsr., loc. cit. 
—H. By, in Adansonia, ix. 346. 3 Pimia (SEEM., in Bonplasdia (1862), 366; 
