256 BENGAL PLANTS. (Mai 
{Carpels opposite petals, indehiscent after separating :—[p. 255] 
Bracteoles connate 5; carpels spinescent or unarmed ; flowers 
pink 
eer intermixed with flowers, or 0 ; flowers in dense heads; z 
carpels unarmed ; flowers yellow or white.........+++0 Malachra. | 
tCarpels when ripe forming a ee alt 255 
Stigmas spreading ; seeds re 
Ovary 3-celled, ovules 2 in ante cell ascending ; flowers panicle, 
polygamous = amall trees ss. sicicecesoccicsscéoecosshaxedisoteeaneal Kydia. : 
Ovary 5-celled, sas ae spuriously 10-celled from false dissepl- 
ments, cells opposite petals, with three or more ovules; flowets : 
axillary Hibiscus. 
seneee 
Stigmas cohering in a club-shaped mass :— 
Bract 
*Leaves digitately compound ; sepals feathiany Seatac 0; tall trees—~ 
Sates 5-cleft; fruit oblong, es erage seeds not packed in 
cotton ; staminal tube long ; flower re 
Calyx truncate or irregularly tone “trait ovoid, dehiscent ; 
packed in cotton; staminal sca short :-— 
Valves of capsule woody ; flowers re oy ; stamens many ..---- Bombs 
Valves of capsule thickly coriaceous ; flowers white ; stamens 1eW 
. oe Eriodendrot- 
90. Malva Linn. . 
Herbs; leaves lobed, pubescent. Flowers axillary iin 
bracteoles 3, distinct. Sepals 5, connate at the base. Pe t ee 
- argina ate, slightly connate below. Stamens mimerous, in & : 
~_ ig i Seed ieiaea cose in each separate coccus. 
6. Matva verticiitata Linn.; F. B. I. i. 320; E. D. M. 1 
N. Bengal; clivated throughout Dinajpur and Bog 
as a cold weather veg 
An erect annual. porate Tabtia, napha. 
91. Malvastrum A. Gray. : 
Herbs or undershrubs with entire or divided leaves. F lowers : 
pal or in terminal spikes ; bracteoles 3, narrow- Caly? 
cupular, 5-partite. Petals 5, exceeding the sepals. Stament 
