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54. Sphæralcea A. S. H.'— Flowers nearly of Adutilon ; ovary 
cells ©, 2_3-ovulate; disk hypogynous, sometimes smooth, 5-lobed 
(Meliphleæ). Carpels  , apex rotund, truncate, muticous, or dorsally 
angulate, or 2-bristled, separating from axis at maturity, 2-valved. 
—Shrubs, undershrubs, or herbs (habit of J/a/va and Malvastrum) ; 
leaves usually angular or lobed ; flowers’ axillary or in spikes, or termi- 
nal racemes ; pedicels long, or oftener very short almost wanting, 
solitary or fasciculate-cymose ; bractlets 3, sometimes more or less 
shortly connate into involucel under flower (Anisodontea, Meliphlea’), 
or oftener free (Warm America, South Australia), 
55. Modiola Mancu.'—Flowers of Abutilon (or Sphæralcea), style 
branches © (equal in number to cells), filiform, apex capitate stig- 
matiferous. Carpels o ; dorsally 2-bristled, 2-valved inwardly be- 
tween seeds, transversely septate, separating from axis at maturity ; 
seeds reniform; other characters of Spheralcea—A herb throwing 
out prostrate roots at base; leaves partite ; flowers’ axillary, pedun- 
culate,® bractlets 3, free under flower (America and South Africa’). 
56. Howittia F. Munii."—Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla of M/a/va. 
Stamens » (of Sida). Staminal column divided into filaments at apex. 
Germen 3-locular ; ovules in each cell 2, collaterally ascending ; style 
branches 3, apex capitate stigmatiferous. Capsule" depressed-globose 
muticous, loculicidal; valves 3, inwardly septiferous at middle; seeds 
ascendent ; cotyledons 3-fid.—A sarmentose stellate tomentose shrub ; 
flowers" axillary solitary pedunculate, ebracteolate (dustralia’). 

1 Pl. Us. Brasil., t. 52.—DC., Prodr., i. 435. 
—Expz. Gen., n. 5272.— Payer, Thèse Mal- 
vac., 5, 23.—A Gray, Gen. Il, t. 69.—B. H., 
Gen., 204, n. 22, — Spheroma Scurry, in 
Linnea, xi. 352.—Phymosia DESVX., in ham. 
Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ., 49. 
3 Zucc., in Abh. Ak. Mun., ii. 359, t. 9. 
3 Red, carnation or violet. 
4 Prest, Bot. Bem., 18.—Sphæroma Hary., 
Fl. Cap., i. 166. 
5 Spec. ad 25, quar. 4 capens.—Jacq., Hort. 
Schœnbr., t. 293 (Malva).—Cav., Diss., ii. t. 16, 
fig. 1,t.20, fig. 1; Ic.,t.95 (Malva).—A. S. H., #7. 
Bras, Mer., i, 209.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iii, 
357.—Hary. & Sonn., Fl. Cap., i. 165.— Bot. 
Mag.,t. 2544, 2787, 2839 (Malva).—Watp., Rep., 
i, 296; ii. 789 ; Ann., i. 100; ii. 140; vii. 397. 
5 Meth., 620.—DU., Prodr., i. 435.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5273,— PAYER, Thèse Malvac., 6, 22, 
—B. H., Gen. 205, n. 23.—A. Gray, Gen. 
IU., t. 128.—Haynea Reicus., Consp., 202. 
7 Small, red. 
8 Perhaps better as a section of Sphæralcea, 
if distinguished from Abutilon or Wissadula 
with septate carpels ? 
9 Spec. 1 (?) IL caroliniana—M. multifida 
Menon, loc. cit—A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 
210, t. 43.—Watp., Rep., i. 296.—Malva caro- 
liniana L., Spec., 969. 
10 In Hook. Journ., viii. 9; Pl. Vict., i, 167, 
t. 4.—B. H., Gen., 203, n. 18. 
N Nearly as in Hibiscus Bombycellis, but 
habit of plant and androceum quite of Sida. 
2 Somewhat purple. 
18 Spec. 1. H. trilocularis K. MuEzx., loc. 
cit—BENTH., Fl, Austral., i. 198.—Watp., 
Ann., vii. 399. 
