MALVACE/E. 55 



Plate 119. 



NAPiEA, Clayt. 



Flores dioici ! Involucellum nullum. Calyx teres, 5-den- 

 tatus. Tubus stamincus simplicissimus, ad apicem in filamen- 

 ta 15-20 uniserialia solutus. Styli intus longitudinaliter 

 stigmatosi. Fructus 8 - 10-coccus, depressus ; carpellis sub- 

 reniformibus muticis, monospermis, ab axi secedentibus. Se- 

 men reniforme. Radicula centripeto-infera, — Herba procera, 

 foliis palmato-multifidis laciniatis maximis, floribus umbella- 

 to-fasciculatis parvis. 



NAPiEA, Clayt. Fl. Virg. ed. 1, & ed. 2. p. 102. Linn. Gen. 838, ex 



parte. Gray, Man. Bot. N. U. S. p. 69, & PI. Fendl. p. 20. 

 SiD^ Sp., Cav., DC., Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 



Glade Mallow. 



Flowers dioecious. Calyx naked (not involucellate), 

 terete, somewhat turbinate, rather deeply five-toothed, the 

 triangular teeth valvate in ccstivation, persistent. Petals 5, 

 obovate, entire, convolute in aestivation, hypogynous, their 

 claws adnate to the base of the stamineal column. Ster. Fl. 

 Stamens 15 to 20, monadelphous in a simple hypogynous 

 column, the dilated base of which coheres with the claws 

 of the petals : filaments a single series at the summit of the 

 column, short : anthers reniform, (by confluence) one-celled. 

 Pistils abortive. Fert, Fl. Stamineal column 15-20- 

 lobed at the apex, not antheriferous. Ovaries 8 or 10, united 

 in a circle around a central receptacle : styles as many as 

 the ovaries, united below, the distinct portion filiform, stig- 

 matose (minutely hispid) for the whole length of the inner 

 face. Ovule solitary in each carpel, peritropous-ascending, 

 amphitropous ; the micropyle pointing to the base of the cell. 



Fruit depressed, formed of a ring of eight or ten charta- 

 ceous cuneatc-reniform and bcakless (barely apiculale) smooth 



