MALVACE^. 63 



Plate 124. 



ANODA, Cav, 



Calyx in fructu paten tissimus. Capsiila polycocca, supeme 

 depresso-plana, stellariformis ; carpellis radiantibus parietibus 

 demum obliteratis apertis. Csetera fere Sidae. 



Anoda, Cav. Diss. 1. p. 38. t. 10, 11, & Ic. 5. t. 431. Kunth, 1. c. p. 265. 

 DC. Prodr. 1. p. 458. Schlecht. in Linneea, 11. p. 205. Endl. 

 Gen. 5287. 



Calyx naked (destitute of an involucel), deeply five-cleft ; 

 the segments valvate in asstivation. Petals 5, obovate, 

 convolute in aestivation, hypogynons. Stamens numerous, 

 monadelphous in a simple hypogynons column, the dilated 

 base of which is united with the claws of the petals : fila- 

 ments all arising from the summit of the column : anthers 

 reniform, one-celled, two-valved. Ovaries numerous (10 to 

 20), closely united" in a depressed ring around a central re- 

 ceptacle : STYLES as many, united below : stigmas terminal, 

 capitate. Ovule solitary in each carpel, resupinate-pendulous 

 from the summit of the inner angle of the cell, almost ana- 

 tropous ; the raphe therefore dorsal and superior ; the micro- 

 pyle centripetal-superior. 



Fruit of 10 to 20 closely combined radiate-spreading 

 carpels, subtended by the spreading persistent calyx, orbicu- 

 lar, strongly depressed (the upper surface flat, the lower 

 convex); the carpels usually beaked on the back, indehis- 

 cent, the whole interior parietes or dissepiments obliterated, 

 the remainder at maturity falling away from the dilated 

 receptacle in the form of a kind of replum. Seed nearly 

 horizontal, the raphe or hilura superior; the testa crusta- 

 ceous. Embryo inflexed or incurved in sparing albumen : 

 cotyledons foliaceous, cordate, replicate-infolded : radicle 

 centripetal-superior. 



