MALVACE 4. 145 
mens ; apex of column divided into filaments. Germen 5-2 -locular; 
1 ovule in each cell descending; micropyle introrse superior; style 
branches equal in number to the cells, filiform or subclavate, stig- 
matiferous truncate or capitate at apex. Mature carpels 5— 0, accompa- 
nied by fructiferous calyx, sometimes accrescent patent membranous 
(Heischeria’) finally separating from the axis, sometimes membranous 
(Gaya’), erostrate or apex produced in rostra or erect connivent 
prickles, indehiscent (Dictyocarpus'), or at apex 2-valved, bare 
inwardly, sometimes dehiscing dorsally in 2 small valves, leaving the 
internal dorsal ligule ascending from the base round the seed (Gaya) ; 
seed descendent or sometimes subhorizontal.—Herbs, undershrubs 
or shrubs ; indumentum often soft or tomentose ; leaves entire, angu- 
lar, or lobed; flowers subsessile or oftener pedunculate, solitary or in 
glomerules, axillary or in clusters, sometimes corymbiform, spikes or 
terminal capitula; bractlets 0* (4// warm regions of the Globe’). 
47. Bastardia H. B. K.'—Flowers nearly of Sida; germen 
5-locular ; cells ovulate ; style branches same in number, apex capi- 
tate stigmatiferous. Capsule depressed-globose erostrate, 5-sulcate, 
loculicidal ; valves 5, septiferous at middle; seeds descending ; 
micropyle introrse superior.—Undershrubs or tomentose herbs ;? 
leaves cordate, entire, or crenulate ; flowers* axillary solitary, peduncu- 
late ebracteolate (Zrop. America’). 
1 SrEUD., in Pl. Preiss., i. 
in Pl. Preiss., ii. 365. 
2H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 266, t. 
475, 476.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5290.—B. H., Gen., 
203, n. 15. 
8 WiquT, in Madr. Journ, Sc. (ex Ann. Se. 
Nat., sér. 2, xi. 169). 
4 Malvella Jaus. & SpacH., by us (se p. 
90, note 2), referred to Malvastrum, A. GRAY 
(sect. Malva) is, on the authority of B. H. 
“Vera Sidæ species, bracteolis 2 in pedicello 
minimis non obstantibus.” Ovules erect (SPACH), 
and said to be suspended (B. H.). But we (in 
Adansonia, x. 188) see the ovule to be some- 
times ascending (micropyle extrorse inferior), 
sometimes descending (micropyle introrse su- 
perior), as the insertion of the style may be more 
or less gynobasic. Sometimes ovules and seeds 
become quite transverse. Finally we hold all 
legitimate Sidas ecalyculate. 
° Spec. ad 85. H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., 
v. 256, t. 473.—A. S. H., Pl. Us. Bras., t. 49, 
VOL. IV. 
236.—STEETZ, 
50; Fl. Bras, Mer., i. 173, t. 33-37, 38 (Gaya). 
—Wreut, con, t. 98.—Mortic., Pl. Nour, 
Amér., t. 24, 25.—C. Gay, Fl. Chil., i. 329.— 
Harv. & Sonp., FU. Cup., i. 166.—Tuw., Ænum. 
Pl. Zeyl., 27.—Grises., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 73. 
—A, Gray, Pl. Fendler., 22.—SEEM., Fl. Vit., 
15.—Tr. & PL. in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 
172.—BENTH., Fl. Austral., i. 191.—Mast., in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 178.—Bot. Mag., t. 
2193, 2857.—Watp., Rep., i. 313, 321 (Gaya) ; 
ii. 792; v. 93; Ann., i. 102; ii. 153; iv. 310 ; 
vil. 392. 
6 Nov. Gen. et Spec., v. 254, t. 472.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5293 (part. excl. sect, Gayoides). — 
Payer, Thèse Malvac., 19.—B. H., Gen, 203, 
Dale 
7 Habit of Sida. 
8 Yellow. 
9 Spec. 2. A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 194, 
t. 39.—Grises., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 80.—TR. 
& Pu, in Ann. Se. Nat., sér, 4, xvii. 186.— 
Watp., Ann., vii. 295, 
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