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dentate. Carpels 5, separating from axis at maturity, obovoid, 
membranous or coriaceous, indehiscent, or slightly dehiscent at 
inner angle; seeds reniform ascending, and other characters of 
Urena.—Hispid herbs’; leaves angular or lobed; flowers’ con- 
gested in dense capitula axillary or terminal, bracts foliaceous, in- 
volucrate ; bractlets unequal sometimes foliaceous irregularly mingled 
with flowers or 0? (Warm America’). 
64? Goethea Ners & Marr.—Flowers nearly of Urena ; calyx 
5-fid, valvate or subreduplicate and petals short. Stamens « ; 
apex of column 5-dentate, filament exserted below apex. Germen 
and style (10-branched) of Urena ; cells 5, alternipetalous. Carpels 
5, separating from axis at maturity, apex rotund muticous, indehis- 
cent; seeds ascending, micropyle introrse inferior. Other characters 
of Urena.—Shrubs ; leaves entire or remote and unequally dentate ; 
flowers’ axillary solitary or very often growing from woody stems 
(showing cicatrices of long-since fallen leaves) cymose; bractlets 5 
oppositisepalous, or 4—6, large including coloured calyx® (Brazil). 
? 
65. Malvaviscus Dizz.®—Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla and 
stamens of Urena; staminal column truncate below apex, filaments 
æ exserted. Germen 5-locular; cells oppositipetalous, 1-ovulate ; 
style branches 10 (of which 5, alternate with the lobes), apex capi- 
tellate stigmatiferous. Fruit subglobose baccate; carpels finally 
separating from axis, indehiscent ; ascendent seed, and other charac- 
ters of Urena.—Small trees, or shrubs, sometimes hispid; leaves 


5 Often red. 
$ A genus differing from Urena sect. Pavonia 
only in the proportion and inflorescence of its 
Whitish or pale yellow. 
Genus better as a section of Urena. (?) 
3 Spec. about 5 (of which 2 have been intro- 
1 
2 
duced into the warm regions of the Old World, 
and are widely dispersed there). Cav., Diss., ii. t. 
33, fig. 2.—Jacg., Ic. Rar. t. 548, 549.— 
DC., Pl. Rar. Jard. Gen., iv. t. 5.—A.S. H., 
F1. Bras. Mer., i. 216.—TR. & Pt, in Ann, Se. 
Vat., sér. 4, xvii. 180.—Turcz., in Bull. Mose. 
(1858), i. 205.— Bot. Reg., t. 467.—WatpP., 
Rep., i. 322; v.95; Ann., i. 104; ii. 156; vii. 398, 
4 In Nov, Act. Nat. Cur., xi. 91, t. 8 (nec 
7).—DC., Prodr., i.501.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5275 
d.—Ganrckr, in Bonplandia, ix. 18.—B. H., 
Gen., 206, n. 27.—Schouwia ScuRAD., in Gœtt, 
Gel. Anzeig. (1821), 717 (ex ENDt.). 

perianth and in its inflato-vesicular involucel. 
7 Spec. 3. Bot. Mag., t. 4677.—Watr., Ann., 
iv. 303 ; vii. 401, 
8 Elth., 210, t. 170, fig. 208.—Cav., Diss., 
iii. 131, t. 48, fig. 1 (nec Garrn.).—DC., 
Prodr., i. 445.— Env, Gen. n. 5278— 
Payer, T'hèse Malvac., 7, 20; Organog., 36, t. 
6.—H. By., in Payer Fam. Nat., 281.—A. 
Gray, Gen. Ill., t. 181.—B. H., Gen., 206, n. 
28.—Achania Sw., Prodr., 102; Fl. Ind. Oce., 
1222 
oon. 
