MALVACE/E. 49 



Plate 116. 



MALVA, Tourn. 



Involucellum 3-phyllum, persistens. Petala obcordata. 

 Styli intus longitudinaliter stigmatosi. Fructus polycocciis ; 

 carpellis cochleato-reniformibus, nmticis, moiiospermis, in 

 orbem dispositis, indehiscentibus, ab axi centrali seceden- 

 tibus. Semen reniforme loculum implens. Embryo suban- 

 nularis : radicula centripeto-infera. — Flores nimquam flavi. 



Malva, Tourn. (excl. spec). Gray, PI. Fendl. in 3Iem. Amer. Acad. 



(n. ser.) 4. p. 16. 

 Malvje Sp., Linn. Gen. 841. Lam. 111. t. 582. Ga3rtn. Fr. t. 136. Cav. 



Diss. 2 & 5. DC. Prodr. 1. p. 430. Adr. Juss. in St. Hil. Fl. 



Bras. 1. p. 213. Torn & Gray, FI. N. Am. 1. p. 225 (no. 1, 2). 



Endl. Gen. 5271. 



Mallow. 



Calyx involucellate with three (rarely two) distinct and 

 persistent bracts, forming an outer calyx, five-cleft, herba- 

 ceous, the segments valvate in aestivation, persistent. Petals 

 5, alternate with the segments of the calyx, obcordate or 

 somewhat two-lobed, spreading, convolute in aestivation, hy- 

 pogynous, their thickened and dilated claws adnate to the 

 base of the stamineal column, twisted together after anthe- 

 sis, at length deciduous. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, 

 monadelphous in a tubular simple column, the dilated base 

 of which incloses the ovaries, and is connected with the 

 claws of the petals, and from the summit of which the 

 short filaments singly become free : anthers reniform, one- 

 celled (at first two-celled by the partition which normally 

 divides the cavity of the anther-cell), opening by a continu- 

 ous line around the convex side so as to become two-valved. 

 Pollen globose, the whole surface hispid. Ovaries 9 to 20, 

 united in a circle around a central receptacle : styles as 

 many as the ovaries, filiform, united below, their distinct 



