MALVACE^. (35 



Plate 125, 126. 



ABUTILON, Tourn., GcErtn. 



Involucellum nullum. Stigmata capitellata. Ovula in 

 loculis 3, raro 4-9, omnia seu inferiora patula vel resupina- 

 to-pendula. Fructus 5 - polycoccus ; carpellis unilocellatis 

 subbivalvibus, ab axi vix secedentibus. Radicula adscendens 

 vel centripeta. — Folia cordata. 



Abutilon, Tourn. Dill. Elth. (excl. spec). Gfertn. Fr. 2. p. 251. t. 135. 



Kunth in H. B. K. Nov. Gen. «& Sp. 5. p. 270. t. 474. Adr. 



Juss. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 1. p. 196. t. 40-42. Torr. & Gray, 



Fl. 1. p. 230. Endl. Gen. 5292. 

 SiDa: Sp., Linn., Cav., L'Her., DC. 

 Bastardise Sp., Adr. Juss. Endl. 1. c. 



Iiidiasi MallOAv. Velvet-leaf. 



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

 ent ; the segments valvate in aestivation. Petals 5, obovate, 

 often retuse, convolute in asstivation, hypogynous, their claws 

 coherent with the base of the stamineal column, at length 

 deciduous. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous in a simple 

 column, the dilated hypogynous base of which is united with 

 the claws of the petals : tilaments usually all arising from 

 the summit of the column : anthers reniform, one-celled, 

 opening by a semicu'cular line around the convex side, two- 

 valved : pollen (as in the whole order) globose, hispid. 

 Ovaries 5 to 20 or more, closely united in a circle around a 

 central receptacle, not divided by any false partition or in- 

 ternal process : styles of the same number as the ovaries, 

 united below : stigmas terminal, capitate. Ovules from 3 

 (or rarely fewer?) to 9 in each carpel, affixed to its inner 

 angle above or about the middle, amphitropous or almost 

 anatropous ; the uppermost ascending or patulous, the lower 

 more or less rcsupinate-pendulous (as in Sida). 



