MALVACEÆ. 165 
5-valved ; seeds involute in fleshy aril (?) ; cotyledons of fleshy embryo 
thick unequal—A lofty tree; leaves lepidote beneath (of Duwrio) ; 
flowers axillary cymose-fasciculate shortly pedunculate; each encircled 
by a tubular calyciform valvate sub-3-5-dentate lepidote (deciduous) 
involucel (Zeylania). See p. 105. 
86. Neesia Bu.*—Calyx subglobose or acetabuliform depressed at 
anthesis, irregularly inflexed 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5. Stamens æ, 
shortly 4—6-adelphous at base ; each filament 1- or more rarely 2-anthe- 
riferous. Anthers subglobose, 1-Jocular confluent in a ring. Germen 
5-locular; ovules in each cell 2 or few, ascending; micropyle 
extrorse inferior ; style short, apex subcapitate stigmatiferous. 
Fruit ovoid ligneous densely muricate, loculicidal 5-valved; seeds 
“ oblong exarillate; embryo exalbuminous; cotyledons flat folia- 
ceous. —Tall trees; leaves oblong, entire lepidote (nearly of Dwrio) 
sometimes slightly tomentose beneath; flowers closeto branches, shortly 
racemose-cymose, each surrounded by a 5-lobed, calyciform, closely 
adpressed valvate epicalyx; inflorescence involucrate, calyculate, 
lepidote (Java, Malaya’). See p. 105. 
87. Boschia Korru.‘—Calyx subglobose or ovoid, finally 4, 5-fid. 
Petals 5, 6, linear or subspathulate. Stamens © ; 5, 6 exterior ones 
antherless, simulating petals ; interior subfree or unequally connate 
at base, some l-antheriferous, others 2-8-antheriferous ; anthers small 
subglobose, placed at summit of dilated filaments, apex subporous. 
Germen 3—6-locular ; ovules in each cell 2—, ascending ; micropyle 
extrorse inferior; style, elongated, apex stigmatiferous, more or less 
dilated peltate-discoidal. Fruit ovoid or acuminate ligneous densely 
muricate, 3-5-valved. Seeds few or o, usually oblong, arillate at 
base ; embryo (albuminous?), cotyledons flat foliaceous.—Trees ; 
leaves nearly of Durio, lepidote beneath ; flowers’ close to branches, 
shortly pedicellate lepidote (together with pedicel and calyces) sur- 
rounded by an epicalyx 2—3-fid (Walaya, Ind. Arch.’). See p. 105. 

1 Spec. 1. C. excelsa WiGur, loc. cit.—Tuw., 3 Spee. 2. Miq., F1. Ind.-Bat., i. p. ii. 168.— 
Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 28. Watp., Rep., i. 331. 
2 Fl, Jav. Prefat., vii.; in Nov. Act. Nat. 4 Verh. Nat. Gesch., 257, t. €9.—B. H., 
Cur., xvii. 75, t. 6.—ENDL., Gen., n. 5308— Gen,, 213, n. 57.—Heterogyxis Grirr., Notul., 
B. H., Gen., 213, n. 58. — Hsenbeckia Bu, iv. 524, t. 594. 
Bijdr., 118 (nec H. B. K.). — Cotylephora 5 Resembling those of Tiliacee, 
MEIssn., Gen., 36, Comm., 28. © Spec. Waze., Rep., v. 96. 
