150 NATURAL HISTORY OF PIANTS. 
57. Kydia Roxs.'— Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous- 
dicecious. Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla rather short (malvaceous). 
Stamens © ; apex of column divided into 5 branches ; anthers 
(barren in female flowers, shortly stipitate) at apex of each branchiet 
2-10, sessile globose-capitate, 1-locular, wide 2-valved. Germen 2, 
3-locular ; ovules in each cell 2, ascending; micropyle extrorse in- 
ferior; style branches 2, 8, apex stigmatiferous dilated or wide 
peltate (in male flowers short placed on the abortive germen). Capsule 
depressed-globose muticous loculicidal ; seeds ascending, reniform 
wingless ; embryo ?—Trees thinly stellate-tomentose ; leaves alter- 
nate, entire or lobed, digitinerved ; flowers in large much ramified 
cymiferous racemes ; bractlets 4-6, foliaceous, patent under fruit 
(Lastern India’). 

IX. MALOPE. 
58. Malope L.—Calyx 5-fid, valvate, contorted corolla, and 
stamens of Aalva. Carpels ©, inserted on the convex receptacle, 
distinct. Germen in each 1-locular ; style filiform, inwardly longitudi- 
nally stigmatiferous. One ovule in each germen inwardly inserted 
above the base, ascendent ; micropyle extrorse inferior. Achenes ©, 
distinct, irregularly inserted on the globose receptacle, multiplicate 
capitate-congested in fruit, finally deciduous, indehiscent; seed 
ascendent (of A/a/va).—Annual herbs; leaves alternate stipulate, 
entire or 3-fid, glabrous or pilose ; flowers pedunculate ; bractlets 
3, large cordate, distinct, in verticillate involucel (sometimes 
wide membranous) under flower (A/editerranean region). See p. 91. 
99. Kitaibelia W.'—Flowers 5-merous (of Afalope); styles 
filiform, apex inwardly stigmatiferous. Carpels «,° finally congested 


1 Pl. Coromand., iii. 11, t.215, 216.—Spacn, 3 Spec. 2(?). Wieut & ARN., Prodr., i. 69. 
Suit. à Buffon, iii. 456.—DC., Prodr., i.500. —Wient, Icon., t. 879-881.—Tuw., En. Pl. 
—ENDL., Gen., n. 5853.—B. H., Gen., 203, n.  Zeyl,, 30. 
19, 4 In Neue Schr. Nat. Fr. Berl., ii. 107.— 
2 “Gen. ab auctt. Buettneriaceis adscit.; DC., Prodr., i. 436.—Enpu., Gen., n. 5268.— 
sed antheræ ...omnino Side, Bracteole et B.H., Gen., 200, n. 2. 
capsula tere Âibiscearum, sed column. stam, 5 Concerning the evolutions of which see 
Abutilearum, inter quas Howittie accedit.” (B. Paver, Organog., 34, t. 8. Styles filiform, bran- 
H., loc. cit.). ches inwardly stigmatiferous at apex. 
