142 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
squamiform or subpetaloid, sometimes connate at base; 5 oppo- 
sitipetalous fertile; anthers longitudinally 2-rimose. Germen 
5-locular ; ovules 2 or 3 in each cell {more rarely more); styles 
connate or coalescing. Carpels distinct at maturity, shortly winged 
above, back finally gaping; seeds arillate; embryo albuminous ; 
cotyledons foliaceous.—Shrubs ;' leaves entire or dentate ; flowers in 
much ramified terminal racemes of cymes (Sudtropical or Extra- 
tropical Eastern Australia’). 
41. Keraudrenia J. Gay. Flowers nearly of Seringia; calyx 
finally membranous-dilated, coloured or transparent. Petals 0 or 
very small, squamiform. Stamens of 7%omasia. Germen 3-5-locu- 
lar; styles coherent at apices; ovules in each cell 3-0. Capsule 
3—5-locular, membranous, villous or shortly setose, loculicidal, or 
carpels finally distinct. Seeds arillate ; embryo albuminous, straight 
or curved; cotyledons flat—Shrubs; habit and leaves of Zasio- 
petalum (or Thomasia); stipules small, persistent. or very small; 
flowers terminal, solitary, or in short cymes‘ (Madagascar,’ Extra- 
tropical and Subtropical’ Australia). 
VITRE AE eA: 
42. Malva 'T.—F lowers hermaphrodite, regular; calyx 5-fid, val- 
vate or subreduplicate. Petals 5, connate between themselves at base, 
and with the staminal column, contorted. Stamens wo ; filaments 
l-adelphous at base, column tubular, afterwards divided at apex; 
anthers reniform, 1-locular, extrorsely rimose. Germen 8-locular ; 
cells in a verticillate globe; 1 ovule in each cell adscendent ; micro- 

1 Habit often of Commersonia, hence also eon- 
necting Buettneriea with Lasiopetale. 
2 Spec. 1. S. platyphylla J. Gay, loc. cit.— 
Bentu., F1. Austral., i. 245 —Watp., Ann., vii. 
n. 1.—Lasiopetalum arborescens Atv., Hort. 
Kew., ed 2, ii. 36. 
3 In Mém. Mus., vii. 461, t. 23.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 489.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5327.—B. H., 
Gen., 227, 984, n. 36. 
4 «Gen. quoad anther. Seringiæ et Hanna- 
Jordiæ acced., calyce fere Thomasie.” (B. H., 
Gen., 984.) 
5 Spee. 1, flowers rather large, fruit hitherto 
not described. 
6 Spec. 6. STEUD., in Pl. Preiss., 1. 236.— 
STEETZ, in Pl. Preiss., ii. 349 (Seringia).—F. 
MuELx., Fragm., i. 28, 242; ii. 5; in Hook, 
Journ., ix. 15 (Seringia).—Brntu., Fl. Aus- 
tral., i, 245.—WALP., Ann., li. 164; vii. 434. 
