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or obtuse 5-dentate, or shortly 5-fid, usually black-punctate. 
Corolla of //ibiscus. Stamens & ; column below apex naked or more 
generally antheriferous, much more rarely with filaments exserted ; 
authers reniform, l-locular. Germen 3—5-locular; cells &-ovulate ; 
apex of style clavate, 3-5-sulcate or costate, 3-5-stigmatiferous. 
Capsule loculicidal 3-5-valved ; seeds densely or more rarely scantily 
(Sturtia,’ Thurberia’) woolly ; embryo scantily albuminous, cotyle- 
dons foliaccous much folded, usually black-punctate, auriculate base 
involving straight radicle-—Tall herbs or more rarely subarborescent 
shrubs; leaves entire, or oftener 3—9-lobed or 3-partite ; flowers’ 
pedunculate axillary or terminal; bracts under flower 3, cordate, 
usually large, sometimes narrow, more pointed (Sfurtia), rarely 
entire, dentate or incised (4/7 warm regions of Globe’). See p. 99. 
68? Thespesia Corr.®— Flowers nearly of Gossypium (or Hibiscus) ; 
calyx truncate, minute or setaceo-dentate, more rarely 5-fid, valvate. 
Stamens «©; column below apex dentate or filaments exserted the 
whole length from apex. Germen 5-locular ; cells pauciovulate ; style 
at apex clavate, either 5-sulcate, or divided into 5-branches, short erect 
clavate stigmatiferous. Capsule ligneous-coriaceous, subglobose or 
more or less elongated, loculicidal 5-valved, or with difficulty tardily 
dehiscing ; seeds glabrous or more or less woolly; embryo of 
Gossypium.—Trees or tall herbs; leaves stipulate, entire or angular- 

t. 134.—Lamx., Dict., ii. 183 ; Suppl., ii. 368; 
Il, t. 586.—DC., Prodr., i. 456.—Spacn, 
Suit. à Buffon, iii. 388.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5286. 
—Payer, Thèse Malvac., 24, — B. H., Gen. 
209, 982, n. 39.—H. Bn., in Payer Fam. Nat., 
281.—Topar., Obs. s. Tal. Spec. di Cot., 17.— 
Xylon T., Inst., 101, t. 27. 
1R. Br. App., Sturt Exped., 5.—Topar, 
loc. cit., 18. 
2A, Gray, Pl. Thurber., in Mem. Am. 
Acad., v. 308.—B, H., Gen., 209, 982. n. 38.— 
Torr., Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv., t. 6.— ? In- 
genhousia Mog. & Sxss., in DC, Prodr., 1. 474 
(ex B. H., Loc. cit.). 
3 White, pink or purple, more often bright 
* yellow, rather large handsome. 
4 Oftener black spotted like calyx and coty- 
ledons. 
5 Spec, 4 (ex B. H.), 7 [ex PARL., Spee. d. 
Cot. Fir. (1866), c. ic.], 43, of which 9 are un- 
certain (ex Topar., op. cit.). Cav., Diss., vi. t. 
164, 166-169, 193.—A. 8S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., 
i. 254.—Wieut, LU. t. 27, 28 C; Ic., t. 9-11. 
—Royz., Ill. Himal., t. 23.—Reicus., Ic. Fl. 
Germ., v. t. 180.—C. Gay, Fl. Chil., i. 309.— 
Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 210.—H. Bn., 
in Adansonia, x. 174. —Brntu., Fl. Austral., i. 
222.—GrisEB., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 85.—SBEM., 
Fl. Vit., 19.—Tr. & Pu., in Ann, Se. Nat. sér. 
4, xvii, 170.—Watp., Rep. i. 312; v. 93: 
Ann., ii. 149; iv. 307 (Lhurberia), 309; vii. 
409, 
6 In Ann. Mus., ix. 290, t. 8, fig. 2.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 455.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5284.— PAYER, 
These Malvac., 21.—B. H., Gen., 208, n. 37. 
Malvaviscus GÆRTN., Fruct., ii. 253, t. 135 
(nec Ditn.).—Tiparium GARCKE, in Bot. Zeit. 
(1849), 824,.—Azanza ALEF,, in Bot. Zeit. 
(1861), 297 (nee DC.). 

