154 NATURAL ITISTORY OF PLANTS. 
entire, dentate or angular-lobed; flowers' usually pedunculate ; 
bractlets ©, in verticillate involucel under flower (Zrop. and Sub- 
trop. America’). 

XI. HIBISCEÆ. 
66. Hibiscus L.— Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle convex. 
Calyx 5-dentate or 5-fid, sometimes membranous or vesiculate-in- 
flated (Zrionum), valvate or reduplicate-valvate, sometimes cut like 
a spathe and base finally circumeissile (Ade/moschus). Corolla and 
stamens of Aalveæ: staminal column below apex 5-dentate or 
truncate (rarely antheriferous) filaments o, with subreniform 
anthers, extrorse 1-locular, l-rimose, exserted. Germen 5-locular ; 
cells alternipetalous; ovules in internal angle , more rarely 2 
(Senra), or 3,4; style branches 5, patent or more rarely suberect or 
erect-connate, either very short, or longer thickened, apex capitate 
stigmatiferous or subspathulate. Capsule loculicidal 5-valved ; en- 
docarp, sometimes membranous separating (Lagunaria), or with false 
dissepiment torn in dehiscence exserted within cells (Paritium, 
Bombycodendron). Seeds reniform or subglobose, rarely obovoid, 
glabrous or more or less tomentose or pilose, sometimes more or less 
involute in cottonous wool (Bombycella) ; albumen small or 0.—Herbs, 
undershrubs, shrubs or trees, glabrous, tomentose or hispid ; leaves 
varied, sometimes partite, stipulate; flowers solitary or cymose. 
Bractlets under flower o, entire (Ae/mia), sometimes at apex 
furcate or foliaceous-appendiculate (Fwrcaria), free or coalescing at 
base (Paritium), more rarely 3, sometimes large cordate, finally 
membranous (Sera), or minute setaceous, scarcely to be seen or 
quite wanting (Lagunea, Lagunaria) (AU Tropical and Extra-tropical 
regions of the Globe). See p. 95. 

67. Gossypium L.’—Flowers nearly of Hibiscus ; calyx truncate 

1 Petals erect, connivent or upper part patent, & PL. in Ann. Se, Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 268.— 
red. Bot. Reg, t. 11 (Achania).—Bot. Mag. t. 
2 Spec. ad 6. A, Ricx., Fl. Cub., t. 14.— 2305, 2374.— Watp., Rep., i. 307; v. 92; Ann., 
H. B. K., Nov. Gen, et Spec., v. 287.—GRISEB., iv. 307 ; vii, 401. 
Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 83.—Turcz., in Bull. Mose. 3 Gen. n. 845.—ADANS., Fam. des PI. ii. 
(1858), i. 190.—Srem., Bot. Her., 82.—Tr. 401.—J., Gen., 274.—GÆRIN., Fruct., ii. 246, 
