48 MALVACEAE. 



Tribe IV. HIBISCE^, Endl. (excl. Malvaviscus) . — Carpels as many 

 as the stigmas, 3-10 (usually 5), combined into a loculicidal few -many- 

 seeded (or rarely indehiscent) capsule ; the dissepiments borne on the middle 

 of the valves. Column antheriferous for a great part of its length, naked 

 and 5-toothed at the apex. 



# Cells of the ovary uniovulate. Involucel polyphyllous. 

 KosTELETZKVA. (Plate 132.) Capsule depressed, 5-celled, 5-seeded. 

 Decasciiistia, Wiglit <Sf Arn. India. 



* * Cells of the ovary 2- many-ovulate. Involucel 3-polyphyllous. 

 Thespesia, Correa. Tropical Asia and Oceanica. 

 Serr^a, Cav. (Senra, DC.) Arabia and Egypt. 

 FuGosiA, Juss. Tropical America and Africa.* 

 Abelmoschus, Medik. Tropical Asia and America. 

 Hibiscus. (Plate 133.) Involucel polyphyllous. Calyx persistent, not 

 spathaceous. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved ; the cells fevi^- many-seeded. 

 GossYPiUM, Linn. Tropical Asia and Africa. 



* * * Cells of the ovary 4 - 6-ovulate. Involucel minute, or none. 

 Lagunaria, Don. Norfolk Island. 

 Lagunea, Cav. Tropical Asia and Africa. 



* Mr. Bentham mentions a Texan species ; but none has fallen under my ob- 

 servation. 



