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axillary, sometimes in simple or ramified racemes; bractlets under 
calyx 7-10, sometimes small or 0 (Warm America’). 
71. Decaschistia Wicut & Arn.’—Flowers nearly of Hibiscus (or 
Kosteletzkya) ; filaments of staminal column o, exserted below apex. 
Germen 10-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style branches, 10 apex capitel- 
late stigmatiferous. Capsule loculicidal 10-valved ; seeds reniform 
ascending : micropyle extrorse inferior.—Shrubs or herbs, tomentose ; 
leaves entire or lobed; flowers in upper axils solitary or glomerate 
at summit of branchlets, shortly pedicellate ; bractlets 10, verticillate 
under flower (Hastern India’). 
72. Julostyles Tuw.'—Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Petals (spotted in 
lower part), base connate in cupuliform corolla. Stamens 10, 2- 
seriate ; filaments connate in column 5-dentate at apex.’ Germen 
2-locular ; ovules in each cell 2, collaterally ascending ; micropyle ex- 
trorse inferior ; style branches 2, densely woolly, apex wide peltate- 
stigmatiferous. Capsule globose stellate-hispid, 2-valved de- 
hiscing (?).—A tree; leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire 
3-nerved at base ; flowers crowded in large much ramified pendulous 
cymes, surrounded by epicalyx of 4 bracts, wide subconnate at base, 
constant, longer than calyx (Zeylania’). 
73. Dicellostyles Brenrn.’—Calyx 5-fid, valvate. Corolla nearly 
of Julostyles. Stamens o ; column short, filaments , exserted below 
apex. Germen 2-locular (nearly of Ju/ostyles) ; style: branches 2, 
at apex wide globose stigmatiferous. Capsule globose stellate-hispid, 
8-costate ; cocci 2, indehiscent solute from axis ; seed (solitary by abor- 
tion in each coccus) reniform ascending ; albumen fleshy ; embryo in- 

1 Spec. ad 5, Cav., Diss., iii. t. 50 (Hibiscus), 3 Spec. 2. Watp., Rep., i. 312. 
—DC., Prodr., i. 447 (Hibisci sect. Penta- 4 Tuw., Enum, Pl. Zeyl., 30.—B. H., Gen., 
spermum).—GRIsEB., Fl. Brit. W.-Ind., 83.— 207, n. 31, 
Turcz., in Bull. Mosc. (1858), i. 192.—Tr. & 5 Pollen of Hibiscus. Perianth also and au- 
Pt., in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 4, xvii. 165.—Watp.,  thers asin Malvee (not Sterculia). 
Rep., i. 302; Ann., i. 100; ii. 142; iv. 304; 5 Spec. 1. J. angustifolia Tuw., loc, cit.— 
vii. 401. Watp., Ann, vii. 402.—Kydia angustifolia 
2 Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind., 52; Icon., t. 42, ARN. 
88.—EnpL., Gen. n. 5285.—Payer, Thèse 7 Gen., 207, n. 32, 
Malvac., 20.—B. H., Gen., 206, n. 30. 
