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POPULAK FLOEA. 



(Najma) Gladb-Mallow. 



(Sida) Sid A. 

 (AbuHlon) Isdian-Mallow. 



Involucel or outer calyx none. 



Flowers dioecious, small, white. Pods or cells one-seeded. 

 Flowers perfect. Cells of the pod 5 to 15. 



Seed only one in each cell. Flowers yellow or white, 

 Seeds 2 to 9 in each of the cells. 

 Anthers attached along the sides of the upper part of the slender column. Tod of 3 to 5 

 cells, and splitting into as many valves. 

 Involucel of many thread-shaped leaves. 



Calyx splitting down one side when the flower opens. Pod long. 

 Calyx not splitting down one side. Pod short. Seeds naked, 

 Involucel of 3 heart-shaped toothed leaves. Seeds bearing wool. 



{AbelmoscJius) * Okra. 

 (Hibiscus) Hibiscus. 



( Gossypiur/i) * Cotton- 



sit. Stnmena of Mallow unil'^d in n tube (monrtdelphoiis). 318. An anlher more magnified, 319. Floweis and leaf of 

 Marsli-Mal luw. 320. lis corajwiund pis(il magnilietl. 321. Pod of Hibisciia&iirroUQded b; Lhe calyx and involu- 

 cel. 3i2, The pod splilLing inlo 5 valves. , 



.Jffallow. Mdha. 

 Involucel or outer calyx 3-leaved. Petals notched at the upper and broader end. Styles many. 

 Little pods or cells man}' in a ring aromid a narrow axis or column (the whole shaped like a cheese), 

 when ripe falling away separately, eacTon'e-seeded. — Herbs ; flowering all summer. 



1. Low Mallow. Eoot very long ; stenns spreading on the ground ; leaves round-kidney-shaped, 

 long-stalked, scarcely lobed, crenate; flowers several in the axils, small, whitish. Very common 

 weed in waste and cultivated ground. jl/. roiundifbliii. 



3. HiGii M. Stem 3° high; leaves lobed; flowers large, rose-purple. Gardens. M syhestris. 

 8. Musk M. Stem 2° high; leaves 5-parted and the divisions cut into linear lobes (the smell faintly 



musky); flowers large, rose-color. Gardens^ j\l. moscliata. 



4. Curled M. Stem 4° to 6° high ; leaves round, toothed, much curled around the edge ; flow- 



ers small.white, s^ile in the axils. Gardens. J/, ci-ispa. 



Hibiscus. Bibhcus. 

 Flowers large, with an involucel of many nan'ow bractlets, and a 5-cleft calyx, which does not open 

 down one side. Stamens in a long and slender column. Stigmas 5. Pod short, 5-celled, splitting 

 when ripe into 5 valves, many-seeded ; the seeds smooth or hairy, not long-woolly. Showy herbs or 

 shrubs : flowering in autumn. 



