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whorled round a central axis ; styles more or less or entirely con- 
nate; stigmas various. Fruit of dry indehiscent or dehiscen : 
cocci, or capsular and loculicidally dehisemg. Albumen. scanty o 
none bryo curved, the cotyledons leafy, usually folded o 
crumpled. —Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, with alternate, palin 
: nerved, simple or rarely compound leaves. Stipules free, sometimes 
4 caducous. Flowers axillary or terminal, variously arranged. 
: All the members of this order abound more or less in mucilage, 
and many, like the mallows, are used as demulcents and emollients. 
The liber of most. species is very tenaceous, and furnishes cordage and 
strong fibre, and Hzdiscus oun ees yields strong hemp. A sort 
of cotton is the product of Bombax and Eriodendron, and the true 
cotton (Gossypium) belongs rity to this family. The fruit. of the 
Durian nsidered one of the most delicious tropl i 
in spite of its disagreeable smell.. The Boabab. (Adansonia), one 
of the biggest trees of the world, yields also strong fibre. Burma 
nourishes 55 species of this order, of which only few are trees with 
soft and usually useless wood, but usually strong fibre. 
*K Gurasie not united, but more or less free and whorled 
axis = a single row 
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Fad, ee 
See ie = ne 
Recitals none. Carpels broadly stellate, not beaked . Anoda. 
*x* Carpels cea Fo into a dehiscent or rarely indehiscent 
capsule. 
©) Staminal somes truncate, or 5-toothed at summit, 
— ee or filaments outside, or also om 
X_ Leaves digitate, 
Ultimate filaments with a single anther. . s : ‘ . Bombac. 
Ultimate filaments with 2 or 3 anthers : - Eriodendron. 
x ce Besandat Fruits. large, muricate Durio, 
S Seke los branched at top. Seeds usua usually reniform. 
Bracteoles Co tha fad under the fruit. Capsule tbe valved ‘ - Kydia. 
Bracteoles:not enlarging or edad Capsule 5-celled é - Hibiscus. 
4 XX Stigmas clavate, undivided, on Sines emake bonsicls- 
] Seeds obovoid or a 
: Bracteoles 3 to 5, usually small. : ? . Thespesia. 
4 Bracteoles 3, large and leafy, cordate - Gossypium. 
: Staminal been divided at summit or rarely to the 
ase, into numerous filaments, or 5 to 8 staminal 
: dies. 
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KYDIA, Roxb. 
Flowers polygamous. Bracteoles 3-4, leafy, connate at th 
enlarging and spreading under the Fenit: ” Sepals 5, connate 
the middle. Petals as many, adnate to the staminal sihogee Sta. 
minal tube divided about the middle into 5 divisions, each bearing 3 
reniform anthers, the latter imperfect in the female flowers. Ovary 
- 2-3-celled, with 2 ascending ovules in each cell ; style 3-cleft with oe 
as ay peltate stigmas, imperfect in male flowers. dese oo 
