JfALVACE^. (mallow FAMILY.) 53 



* Carpels 1 -seeded. 

 ■^ Stigmas occupying the inner face of the styles. 



1. MALYA. Carpels beakless. No process within. 



2. OALLIRRHOii. Carpels beaked, and bearing a dorsal process above the seed vithio. 



4- 't- Stigmas capitate. 

 8. MALVASTRBM. Involucel 2-3-leaved. Ovule peritropous-ascending. Badicle inferior. 



4. SIDA. Involucel none. Ovule resupinate-pendulous. Radicle superior. 



* * Carpels 2 - few-seeded. 



5. ABUTILON. Carpels 1 -celled. Involucel none. 



6. MODIOLA. Carpels transversely 2-ceIled. Involucel 3-leaved. 



Tbise. n. URENEiE. — Carpels half as many as the stigmas, separating at maturity. 

 Anthers borne above the middle of the column. 



7. PAVONIA. Carpels 5, dry, l-seeded. Involucel 6- 15-leaved. 



TaiBE III. HTBISCE^. — Carpels as many as the stigmas, united and forming at ma- 

 turity a loculicidal capsule. Column bearing the anthers throughout, or from above the 

 middle. 



8. EOSTELETZKYA. Cells of the depressed capsule 1-eeeded. 



9. HIBISCUS. Cells of the globose or oblong capsule few - many-seeded. 



1. MALVA, 1. Mallow. 



Involucel 3-leaved, persistent. Petals obcordate. Styles 9 - 20, fiUform, stig- 

 matic on the inner face. Carpels broadly reniform, beakless, l-seeded, indchis- 

 cent, disposed in a circle around the central axis, from which they separate at 

 maturity. Embryo nearly animlar. Kadiele inferior. — Herbs. Leaves round- 

 ed. Flowers axillary, not yellow. 



1. M. rotundifolia, L. Stems several, prostrate ; loaves long-petioled, 

 round-cordate, crenate and crenately-lobed ; flowers single or clustered, white 

 veined with purple ; carpels even. — Around dwellings. Introduced. Ij.. 



2. CALLIRHHOE, Kutt. 



Involucel 1 -3-lcaved and persistent, or none. Petals wedge-shaped, entire, 

 or crenate. Styles as in Malva. Carpels numerous, with a short and naked 

 beak, and a ligulate dorsal process below the bcik within. Embryo curved. 

 Radicle inferior. — Perennial herbs. Leaves palmatcly-lobed, or angled. Flow- 

 ers showy, purple or whitish. 



1. C triangulata, Gray. Rough-pubescent; stem ascending from a 

 perpendicular rhizoma, branching above; leaves triangular, coarsely and une- 

 qually crenate, the lowest ones long-petioled and cordate, the upper 3 - 5-lobcd ; 

 flowers approximate, panicled, longer than the pedicels ; involucel 3-leaved, the 

 leaves linear ; carpels at length 2-valved. (Malva triangulata, Leavenworth.) — 

 Dry soil in the upper districts of Alabama to North Carolina and northwestward. 

 July. — Stem 2° - 3° high. Flowers 1 ' - 1 ^' wide, purple. 



2. C. Papaver, Gray. Rough with scattered appressed and rigid hairs ; 

 stems low, simple ; leaves 3 - 5-parted ; the lobes oblong or lanceolate, toothed 

 or entire; flowers few, solitary, axillary, long-peduncled ; involucel 1 -3-leaTed, 

 or none; petals finely crenate ; carpels indehiscent. — Rich open woods. Georgia, 



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