•5. MALVACEAE. 135. 



1. Flower 4 parted. Outer stamens sterile. 



3 SPARMANNIA. 

 Flower usually 5 parted. Outer stamens not sterile. 2. 



2. Receptacle not stalklike. Anthers linear or oblong. 



Prostrate herbs. 4 CORCHORUS. 



Receptacle forming a stalklike column which bears stamens 



and ovary. Anthers roundish. Trees, shrubs or erect 



herbs. 3. 



3. Tall erect herbs. Fruit spiny. 2 TRIUMFETTA. 



Trees and shrubs. Fruit fleshy. 1 GREWIA. 



1. GREWIA L. "iKlolo." 



1. angolensis Welw. Maritzburg. Doubtful. 



2. caffra Meisn. Common in coast bush and Thorn veld. 



3. flava DC. Thorn veld. 



4. hispida Harv. Stony places. Midlands and Drakensberg 



bush. 



5. lasiocarpa E.M. Creeper. Common. Coast and Midland 



bush and Thorn veld. 



6. flavescens Juss. Midlands. Doubtful. 



7. occidental!* L. Common. Coast to Drakensberg. In 



bush and Thorn veld. "iLalanyathi." 



2. TRIUMFETTA L. Weeds. 



1. annua L. Weeds. 



2. effusa E.M. Common all over. 



3. rhomboiclea Jacq. Common all over. "iNothwane.' 



4. sonderi Ficalho and Hiern. Zululand. 



3. SPARMANNIA L.f. 



palmata E.M. Coast and Midlands. Common. 



4. CORCHORUS L. 



1. asplenifolius Burch. Common in Midland. Grassveld. 



2. serraefolius Burch. Greytown. 



3. triloculare L. Midlands and Zululand. 



4. discolor N.E.Br. Near Stanger, ISO ft. 



FAMILY 95— MALVACEAE. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves simple, stipulate. Flowers 

 regular. Calyx 5, rarely 3 — 4 cleft, valvate in bud. Petals 5, 

 adhering to staminal tube with contorted aestivation. Stamens 

 many, united in a tube. Anthers 1 celled. Pollen grains large 

 prickly. Ovary superior, 3 or more celled, or apocarpous. Seeds 

 endospermic. Embryo curved. 9 genera 4O species. 



1. Style branches 10, twice as many as carpels. 6 PAVONIA. 



Style branches as many as carpels or 1. 2. 



2. Staminal tube loaded with anthers at the top. Carpels 



separable, disposed in a ring round central axis. 



(Malveae) 3. 



