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lanceolata, subrhomboidea, basi attenuata, 3-nervia, sub-ascendentia, serrato-deïitata, acuta, utrinque 

 pubescentia, suprà saturatè viridia, subtùs pallidiora. Petioli 2 lin. longi, cylindracei, tomentosi. Sti- 

 pula petiolis subbreviores, lineares, tomentosa;. Pedicelli in axillis foliorum plures aut solitarii, 1-mul- 

 ti-flori, 2-6 lin. longi, apice foliosi, cymosi, subdichotomi, flores pedicellulatos gerentes. Calyx 

 5-phyllus, rotundatus, basi planus, 10-nervius, foliolis ultra médium coalitis, hirsutis, ciliatis, apicu- 

 latis. Petala fulva, venosa, calyce duplô longiora. Androecium incurvum, apice in stigmata plu- 

 rima divisum. Styli ad médium usque coaliti, glabri. Stigmata capitellata. Ovaridm ovato-subrotun- 

 dum, apice crenulatum et styli basi persistente apiculatum. Ovula solitaria , pendula. Columella in- 

 clusa , in membranam basilarem margine erosam , plicis 10 elevatis , et in filamenta produc- 

 tis, extensam. Cocca 1 \ lin. longa, rugosa, pubescentia, dorso rufescentia, subgibba, apice demùm 

 extra dehiscentia, bifurcato-cuspidata. SeminaI. lin. longa, pendula, fusca, subtrigona, apice crenata, 

 crenulse latere interiore producto recurvo. Testa crustacea cum tegmine coalita. Chlamys perispermica 

 tenuis, alba. Perispermium ad umbilicum mucilaginosum. Embryo abrupte curvatus. Radicula cylin- 

 dracea, gracilis,. acuta , longitudine ferè cotyledonum. Cotyledones flexuoso-p]icatœ,foliaceœ, ovatœ, 

 subacutae, basi rotundatse, petiolulatse. 



ABUTILON. Kunth. 



Calyx simplex, 5-phyllus, persistens, foliolis ultra médium con- 

 natis. Petala 5, hypogyna, aequalia, aut aliquandô inaequilatera, 

 patentia. Androecium unguibus petalorum adnatum , filamentis om- 

 nibus usque ad tubi apicem coalitis, aut rariùs quibusdam ante 

 apicem liberis. Ovarium superum, 6-multi-loculare, loculis 3-rariùs 

 4-9-ovulatis. Ovula angulo interno affixa, superiùs ascendens, mé- 

 dium peritropium, inferiùs reversum, pendulum. Columella brevis, 

 inclusa, styli basi persistente apiculata, membranâ basilari nullâ. 

 Styli tôt quot loculi, basi plus minus coaliti. Stigmata capitellata. 

 Capsula orbiculato-depressa, aut vesicaria, supernè mutica, aut 

 2-cuspidata, 5-poly-cocca, coccis 3-rariùs 4-9-spermis, aut abortu 

 1 spermis, inter se insolubiliter coalitis, aut demùm maturitate 

 solutis, apice dehiscentibus. Semina subreniformia. Embryo cur- 

 vatus, semicircularis. 



Herr^e, suffrutices, frutices, aut arbores orbis aeqainoctialis, undè 

 boream versus species aliquot in Carolinam, ÂEgyptum, Canarias et 

 Maderam, unica in Europam meridionalem evasit. Folia alterna, 



