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Trib. III. HIBISCEjE. Stamiiuil column truncate or 5-tootlied at summit, bearing 

 the anthers or filaments outside or also on the summit itself. Style-branches or stig- 

 mas as many as ovary-cells. 



O Style branched at the summit, the branches spreading or radiating. 

 Seeds usually reniform. 

 9. Kydia. Bracteoles 4 — 6, enlarging in fruit. Capsule 2- or 3-valved. 



10. Decaschistia. Bracteoles 10. Ovary, 10-celled, with a solitary ovule in each 

 cell. 



11. Hibiscus. Bracteoles 5 or more, free or connate, rarely tooth-like or wanting. 

 Ovary 5-celled, with 2 or mx)re ovules in each cell. 



O O Stigmas clavate, undivided or very shortly and erect-branched. Seeds 

 obovoid or angled. 



12. Thespesia. Bracteoles 3 to 5, ttsnally small. 



13. GossYPiUM. Bracteoles 3, leafy, large, cordate. 



Trib. IV. BOMB ACJEJE. Staminal column divided at summit, or rarely to the base, 

 into numei-ous filaments or 5 to 8 staminal bundles, very rarely entire nearly to 

 the summit. Anthers free or variously cohering. Stigmas free or connate. 



* Leaves digitate. Bracteoles distinct or none. 



14 BoMBAX. Calyx truncate or irregulai:ly S- to 5-lobed. Capsule 5-valved, 

 copiously woolly within. Ultimate Itlaments with a single anther. 



15. Eeiodendeon. Calyx and capsule as in preceding. Filaments with 2 or 3 

 anthers. 



* * Leaves simple, penninerved, beneath more or less Icpidote. Fruits 



muricate. 



16. DuEio, Calyx bell-shaped. Petals 5. Branches of the staminal bundles 

 bearing several linear anthers with sinuous anther-cells. 



Althaea, L. 



1. A. EOSEA, Cav. Diss. t. 29. f. 3 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. loO ; DC. 

 Prod. I. 437 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3189. (A. Coromandeliaiia, Cav. 1. c. 293 ; 

 WA. Prod. I. 45 ; A. flexuosa, Sims Bot. Mag. t. 892 - A. Sinensis, Cav. 1. 

 c. t. 29. f. 3. ; DC. 1. c). 



Hab. In gardens both of natives and of Europeans, more es- 

 pecially in the drier districts, as Prome, also Ava, Khakyen hills, Ponsee 

 (J. Anderson). Fl. March. 



Malva, L. 



1. M. VERTiciLLATA, L. sp. pi. 970 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 320 ; Engl. 

 Bot. t. 2953 ; Hook. Journ. 1847. t. 7. {31. Nellgherrensis, Wight Ic. 

 t. 950). 



Hab. Ava, Khakyen hills, Ponsee (J. Anderson). Fr. May. 



Malvastrum, A. Gray. 



*1. M. TRicuspiDATUM, A. Gray Bot. Amer. Exp. I. 118 ; Hf. Ind. 

 Fl. T. 321. (JX. ruderale, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. .1/2 138). 



Hab. In rubbishy places near Chittagong ; also one specimen seen in 

 llangoon. Fl. II. S. 



