MALVACL A. 161 
contortuplicate, involving slightly curved radicle.—Trees; trunk 
short, very thick, of gigantic diameter; branches patent or some- 
times deflexed, radiating from the summit of trunk in wide dense 
coma; leaves digitate; folioles 3-9 entire, very short petiolate ; 
stipules deciduous; flowers axillary, solitary, pedunculate, pendu- 
lous ; bractlets 2 (Tropical Africa, Asia, ? Australia’). 
79. Quararibea Aus? — Flowers elongated; calyx oblong- 
obconical, apex 3-5-dentate or shortly 3-5-lobed, sometimes un- 
equally cut, valvate. Petals 5, ovate-oblong or oblong linear, much 
narrowed at base, more or less adnate to base of staminal tube, 
imbricate or contorted. Stamens ©; filaments connate, in rather 
long or much elongated tube, exserted; apex of tube outwardly 
antheriferous, subentire (Æwquararibea), or 5-dentate (Wyrodia’), some- 
times short (atisiopsis*) or long (Matisia), 5, 6-fid; anthers shortly 
stipitate or sessile, extrorse; cells either separate (Huquararibea, 
Matisié) or divaricate, sometimes more or less confluent at apex 
(Myrodia), longitudinally rimose. Germen sessile, 2—5-locular; 
ovules in each cell’ 2 or more rarely 3, 4, ascending or descending ; 
style slender or filiform, freely passing through tube of androceum, 
apex stigmatiferous, more or less dilated or subcapitate sublobed. 
Fruit usually subglobose, sometimes sub-2-dymous, rarely fibrous- 
pulpous (Humatisia), or oftener scantily fleshy (JZyrodiopsis’), coria- 
ceous or suberose-fibrous, indehiscent or unequally parting ;* cells 
1-5, oligo- or l-spermous. Seeds laterally affixed, descending or sub- 
ascending ; albumen scanty, mucous or subcartilaginous ; embryo 
rather fleshy ; cotyledons contortuplicate or unequally conferruminate, 

1 Spec. 2. Cav., Diss., v. 298, t. 157.— 
Gur~tEM. & Perr., Fl. Sen. Tent., i. 76.— 
F. Muezz, in Hook. Journ., ix. 14,—Tuw., 
Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 28.—BENTH., Fl. Austral. i. 
Prodr., i. 477.—Spacu, Suit. à Buffon, iii. 415. 
—Expz., Gen., n. 5313.—H. BN., in Payer 
Fam. Nat., 285; in Adansonia, ii. 172; ix. 146. 
—B. H., Gen. 219, n. 8.—Lerarza LIAVE, 
222.—Mast., in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 212. 
— Bot. Mag., t. 2791—Watpr., i. 399; vii. 
416. 
2 Guian., 691, t. 278 (1775).—DC., Prodr., 
i. 477.—EnDL., Gen., n. 5313 b.—B. H., Gen., 
212, n. 49.—H. BN., in Payer Fam. Nat. 
285 ; in Adansonia, x. 146 (incl.: Matisia K., 
Murodia Sw.).—Gerberia Scor., Inirod., n. 
1297. 
3 Sw., Prodr., 102 (1788); Fl. Ind. Occ., 
ii. 1227.—Scures., Gen, n. 1147.— DC. 
VOI. IV. 
Nov. Stirp., ii. 7. 
4H. BN., in Adansonia, x. 148. 
5H. B. Pl. Aquin., i. 9, t. 2, 3.—DC., 
Prodr., i. 477.—EnNvDL., Gen., n. 5314.—B. H., 
Gen., 211, n. 48. 
5 Sometimes between ovules (in Q. turbinata) 
falsely septiferous. 
7 ‘Trrana & Pu., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, 
xvii. 326. 
S Apex oftener produced to a short acute 
straight truncate point. 
M 
