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(»Vi«<Ta 2, .S'/vc-<Vi 4.1 ; ftof-kttutr Spccif-s (i •. (trftn-hotisr Sprrirs (\ ; H.irili/ l.if^ut oiis Spccirs i ; 

 Hunly Hrrbacfous Sp<-cir$ 35. f H fi-i-t ; liJlW-t , * 6 IVot. 



S4>tvir4t(<«t by M. IXTandtille (Vom Cnryophlf llcit\ from wliicli it U woll iliKtiiiKuiNhotl by Ita fVult having 

 •(>viT.-il «»r III tUi' l.iiiK'ii.iKt' (»r till' botaiiiht jiiHt iianii-ii, bfiiitf foniuil by llii- lohcKioii of 8i-vt'rul rurpella. 

 Mu»t of tlif mnvifH nrc jirrlty pliiiitii, bi-nriiiK yollow, bUio, or wliiti' flowcm. Thry nrc of inntHMiiic iniport- 

 oju'o HI till- worlil, on .K i-oiitit of tin* tcnai ity (iftlicir litircM wlicti iiiatic into flax. I'lw rci-cIh of conunoii (lux 

 »Tv iH'twofH iiuicilnKiiiou» Hiiil oily ; tbo h'.ivi'!i of Ahium tMtli.irticiiin and I.. sv\nni\niUh'n, the l;itti r a native 

 of Pi-ru, arc purgative. CutllnKn, diviaion, or •ecds. 



iKl Llnum Bauh, 34 | 4l!i Ilad.ola Dil. •! 



77. Orui.ii XXVIII. MALVA*CE>11 



(fVfirra 2^, Species .S^l ; Hot. house Sprn'n W.i ; drrim. house Species 97 ; Ilnnli/ l.tf;ru-ous Specks 8; 

 Hani!/ lii t lHiccous Species 83. f 'i8| feet ; )£ iii feet ; A feet 



Ikyfore thii order wa« dimneinbered of Bonibftm; and ByttniTiNre.-p, it contained most of tlic Krandcst flowers 

 in nature. Kven now, the kplendor of the varioun Hpecieii of .1/iiva, .^ltlirt!\i, to which the hollyhock bclongH, 

 and /ribi.vrus, reiulers it one of the inont remarkable groups of plant*. With the exception of the numerous 



fenus S ida, nearly all Malv&cerc are object.s worthy of the gardeiier's^are, jiarticularly those which are hardy, 

 n stove* or (^reen-hou.ses, the softness of tlu-ir branclie* an<i leaves renders them peculiarly liable to the attacks 

 of the red >puler, mealy biiK, and scale, from wliich few collections are free; a circumstance which makes 

 them lesji generally e.steenuHl than the surjiassing beauty of many of them merits. The greater part of the 

 order is clothed with stellate pubescence, and a reniform one-celled anther is a character common to the whole. 

 These two jH-culiarities, together with the alternate stipulate leaves, distinguish Malv&cca? from all the rest of 

 DichlamJ-dew. All the species abound in a nutritive mucilage; a quality which renders the young heads of 

 the (X-hro, or /fibiscus e.sculcntus, an object of great value within the tropics, as an ingredient in soups. In 

 Itrazil^ the Abutilon esculentum serves the same purposes. The emollient properties of AMhai^a. otticinJilis, 

 or Guimauve of the rrencli, are well known to physicians, .is a remedy for catarrhs and pulmonary complaints. 

 A decoction of the leaves of Spha-ralcea cisplat'ina is used for similar objects in Brazil. A si)ccies of Pavbnf'a 

 is employed in the same country as a diuretic in the form of a decoction. 'J'he straight shoots of ,S'ida 

 micr.uitha arc employed as rocket sticks at Ilio Janeiro. The chewed leaves of Slda carpinifblia allay the 

 inflammation occa.sioned by the stings of wasps. The tough fibres of many Malvacese are manufactured 

 into cordage. 'I'licir petals arc astringent; whence those of //ibiscus rbsa sinensis are used in China to 

 blacken the eyelashes and the leather of shoes. The tibrous threads in which the seeds of Gossy pium are 

 enveloptnl furnish the valuable cotton, an article of immense importance to the world ; these threads, when 

 examined by the micro.scope, will be seen to be finely toothed, which explains the cause of their adhering 

 together with greater facilitv tlian those of Bombax and several Apoc^ncae, which are destitute of teeth, and 

 which cannot be spun into thread without an admixture of cotton. Division, cuttings, or seeds. 



78. Division 1. Calyx double. 



2003 3/4lope L. 







1 



•J()04 3/alva L. 







*.38 



2005 Nuttall/fl Dick. 







2 



2006 KitaibMifl W. 







1 



2007 /<ltha;'a L. 







*lfi 



2008 Lavatera L. 







*12 



2009 .ValJichra L. 







2010 Vrlna L. 



2011 rav5n/« Cav. 



2012 Malvaviscus Dil. 

 201.3 Lebrct6n/rt Schrank 



2014 7/ibi.scus I.. 



2015 ThespLsia Corr. 

 201fi Gossj'pium I.. 

 2017 Redoutea Veii. 



2018 Lopimia Mart. 



79. Division 2. Calyx simple. 



2019 Palav/a Cav. 



2020 Crista ria Cav. 



2021 A'noda Cav. 



2022 Periptera Dec. 



2023 Slda L. 



2024 Lagunea Cav. 



80. Order XXIX. BOMBA'CEiE. 



Genera 11, Species 28 ; Ilot-house Species 27 ; Grecn-house Species 1 ; Hardy Ligneous Species : 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. 1 feet ; £ feet ; ^ feet. 

 Distinguished from the last by the imbricate a?stivation of the calyx, and the arrangement of the stamens in 

 five sets, or, in Linnean language, brotherhoods. The species are mostly fine trees with large showy flowers, 

 and natives of the tropics. Some of them arc among the largest trees in the world ; Adansbn?«, the Baobab 

 of Senegal, has been seen with a diameter of twenty-five feet, and specimens of Bombax Ceiba and Erioden- 

 dron anfractubsum are not uncommon an hundred feet in height. 'I'he wood of all the species is light and 

 soft, as in Malvaceae, from which this order probably does not differ in its medical properties. Cuttings or 

 seeds. 



19r«,3 Helicteres 



2031 Myrb(iia Sclireb. 



2002 Plagianthus Forst. 



2U28 Adansbnirt L. 



1995 Montezuma M. & S. 

 2027 CaroHncfl L. 

 2029 Bombax L. 

 20o0 Eriodendron Dec. 



1921 Ochrbma Suit. 



2177 Durio L. 



1934 Cheirostfemon H.^B. 



81. Order XXX. BYTTNERIATEiE, 



Genera 28, Species 151 ; Hot-house Species 78; Green-house Species 73; Hardy Ligneous Species 0; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. $ feet ; <£ feet ; i feet. 

 Much the same kind of plants as those of the two last orders, from which they were not formerly dis- 

 tinguished ; and from which they scarcely differ, except in their bilocular anthers. Many of the Sterculias 

 are fine umbrageous trees, the seeds of which are large and eatable ; especially those of the famous Kola, 

 which possess the property, being chewed, of rendering bad water pleasant to the palate. The seeds of the 

 Chicha, another and very noble species of the genus, are highly esteemed in Brazil for the dessert. Astrapa;'^a 

 and several other genera related to it are among the most beautiful in the world. The flowers of a species of 

 Pentapetes, called by the Indians Machucunha, give out a mucilaginous refrigerant juice, which is employed 

 in gonorrhoea. Guaznma wlmifblia has its fruit filled with a pleasant mucilage, which is sweet and very 

 agreeable ; an extract of the bark of the same plant is used in Martinique to clarify sugar ; its old bark is 

 employed, in the form of a strong decoction, as a sudorific. WaUhhria Douradinha contains a great dca» 

 of mucilage, and is employed by the Brazilians as an antisyphilitic. Cuttings or seeds. 



