MALVACE, 255 
Order XXIII, MALYACEA. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, often stellate-haired, inner bark ae 
wood By juice mucilaginous or rarely acid. Leaves alterna 
ved at base, seaaeshe lobed or rarely digitately sel Be 
iivates 7 sometimes caduco Flowers regular, hermap. ite, 
rarely dicecious or polygamous; | henna 3 or more, scattered or 
approximated, free or connate, often forming an epicalyx. Disk 
small, often produced upwards between the carpels. Sepals 5, 
+atRabo’ connate at base or free. Petals 5, adnate below to staminal 
column, contorted in bud, often oblique. Stamens many, rarely 
definite ; filaments ae in a tube adnate below to the petals, 
variously divided at the top into antheriferous lobes; anthers 
l-celled (very rarely a fii 2-celled), cells sinuous linear or reniform ; 
dehiscence longitudinal extrorse. Carpels many, whorled, connate 
or free; styles free, or partly or quite connate, stigmas linear 
or spathulate on inner face or capitate; ovules 1 or more in each 
cell, axial on the inner angle, soba raphe usually ventral. 
Fruit of dry indehiscent or dehiscent cocci, or capsular and loculi- 
cidal, sometimes large and woody. Seeds obovoid globose or 
reniform, i or hairy ; albumen mucilaginous, scanty, or 0; 
embryo cu 
“Leaves simple, entire or lobed ; sepals leafy :—[p. 256] 
tCarpels separating from the axis when ripe as dehiscent or inde- 
hiscent cocci :—[p. 256] 
Styles as many as the car 
Bracteoles 3; ripe paar pte a iaspadadlons indehiscent, 1-seeded ; 
ovules solitary ascending :— 
Stigmas linear; carpels many ... Malva. 
as capitate ; carpels 8-12 .......csccseeeeerees Malvastrum. 
Bracteoles 0; ripe carpels after seresnties dehiscent :— 
Carpels without a false dissepimen 
Ovules solitary pendulous; Bi 1-seeded ; forenoon- or 
noon-flowering EGE with small leaves and flowers .....- ida. 
Ovules 2 or more; carpels 1- or more-seeded ; afternoon- or 
evening-flowering ‘Gide with rather large leaves and medium 
Le Se aimee aa Abutilon. 
Carpels with a sagen false dissepiment..........-- Wissadula. 
Styles twice as many as carpels ; carpels 1- 
}Carpels opposite sepals, dehiscent after sepia’ ; bracteoles 10 
[p. 256] . Pavonia. 
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