MALVACEÆ. 141 
small or 0. Stamens 5-10; 5 sterile, small, alternipetalous or 0; 
fertile anthers longitudinally rimose.’ Germen 3-5-locular ; cells? 
2—-» -ovulate; style entire. Capsule loculicidal; seeds 1 or few, 
ascending; embryo straight, albuminous ; cotyledons flat, foliaceous. 
—Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves nearly of Lasiopetalum, generally 
lobed or incised; stipules small or oftener wide, resembling leaf; 
flowers in false racemes, cymiferous, subterminal or lateral ; cymes 
often laterally 1-parous, few flowered ; bracts and bractlets 2, often 
forming a kind of epicalyx under flower (South and Western Australia’). 
39. Hannafordia F. Murnu.'—Calyx campanulate, 5-fid, slightly 
dilated after anthesis; lobes acute, externally elevate-3-5-ribbed. 
Petals 5, shorter than calyx, lanceolate, often unequal, apex some- 
times reflexed. Stamens l-adelphous at base; 5 fertile oppositi- 
petalous ; cells elongated, parallel, extrorse, rimose ; staminodes 1-4, 
longer, alternating, subpetaloid, subulate. Germen 3, 4-locular ; 2-4 
ovules in each cell, ascending; micropyle extrorse inferior; style 
entire, erect, stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule encircled by base of 
calyx, oblong, thick, ligneous, loculicidal, 3, 4-valved. Seed ascending, 
base furnished with laciniate (umbilical ?) aril; embryo straight ; 
cotyledons thick; radicle inferior.—A stellate, tomentose shrub ; 
leaves alternate, subcordate, undulate-sublobed, softly tomentose, 
exstipulate ; flowers in leaf-opposed pedunculate few cymes, shortly 5- 
bracteolate (Western Australia’). 
40. Seringia J. Gay.’—Calyx campanulate, 5-fid at a greater or 
less height, tomentose, scarcely dilated after anthesis (nor coloured). 
Petals 0; stamens 5-10, 5 usually alternipetalous, more or less 

1 Anthers often introrse in the bud, about 
anthesis versatile; clefts afterwards extrorse, 
Filaments in Leucothamnus, with very peri- 
gynons insertion. Anther of Rhynchostemon 
with connective produced beyond the cells, 
rostrate. 
2 Connate in plurilocular germen, or free to a 
greater or less height. 
3 Spec. ad 25. Laprin., Pl. Nowv.-Holl., i. 
t. 88 (Lasiopetalum).— Hvxe., in Endl, Dec. 
32.—Steup., in Pl. Preiss., i, 230.—STEETZ, 
in Pl. Preiss., ii. 319.—Turcz., in Bull. Mose. 
(1846), ii. 500 (1053), ii, 142.—Spacu, Suit. 
à Buffon, iii. 497.—Lrnpu., Swan Riv, Bot. 
App., 18.—F. MueEtu., Fragm., ii. 7; in Trans. 
Phil. Soc. Vict., i. 35.—Brntu., Fl. Austral, 
i. 248.—Watp., Rep., i. 336; ii. 795; v. 107; 
Ann., i. 106; ii. 162; vii. 435. 
4 Fragm., ii. 9.—B. H., Gen., 227, n. 38. 
5 Spec. 1. H. quadrivalvis F. Muertu., loc. 
cit—BENTH., Fl, Austral., i. 247,—WALP., 
Ann., 436. 
6 In Mém. Mus., vii. 442, t. 16, 17.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 488.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5322,—B. H., 
Gen., 226, 984, n. 35. 
