MALVACEiE. 75 



Plate 130. 



PAVONIA, Cav. 



Involucelliim 5- 15-phyllum, persistens. Stamina saspius 

 indefinita. Stigmata 10, capitata. Friictus 5-coccus ; car- 

 pellis acheniiformibus monospermis, fere discretis (nudis vel 

 apice 3-aristatis). Radicula infera. — Pedunculi miiflori. 



Pavonia, Cav. Diss. 3. p. 132. t. 45-49. Lam. 111. t. 58-5. Adr. Juss. 



in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 1. p. 2-^0. t. 44-47. Endl. Gen. 5275. 

 Pavonia, Lopimia, Lebretonia, Goethea, etc., Nees & Mart., DC. 

 Malache, Ttqw, Ehret. t. 50. 

 Thornthonia, Reichenb. Consp. p. 202. 



Calyx persistent, iiivolucellate with from five to fifteen 

 persistent bracts, five-cleft ; the segments valvate in aestiva- 

 tion. Petals obovate, convolute in aestivation, spreading, or 

 sometimes convolute-connivent, the claws united with the 

 base of the stamineal column. Stamens numerous, rarely- 

 few or definite, monadelphous in a simple column, which is 

 shorter or a little longer than the corolla, and naked and five- 

 toothed at the apex ; the filaments arising from towards its 

 summit or from nearly the whole length of the column : 

 ANTHERS reniform. Ovaries 5, situated opposite the petals, 

 more or less united in a five-lobed ring around a small cen- 

 tral axis : styles united into one, which is ten-cleft at the 

 summit : stigmas terminal, capitate, minutely hispid. Ovule 

 solitary in each carpel, peritropous-ascending from the inner 

 angle towards the base of the cell ; the micropyle inferior. 



Fruit pentacoccous ; the acheniiform carpels united barely 

 at the base and obovate or rounded, or rarely by contiguous 

 plane faces, dry, crustaceous or coriaceous, naked or some- 

 times armed at the apex Avith three retrorscly hispid awns, 

 separating at maturity, indehiscent, or somewhat two-valved. 

 Seed solitary, ascending, conformed to the cell, obovate- 



