i 64 MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
P0LT/1NDRTA ccinprehends fuch -as have many 
Jlaminay and always more than , twelve* 
ALTHiSA, Marshmallow. 
The cup is double, the exterior is monophyllous and 
divided into nine parts, that; are very narrow and p erma- 
nent. The interior is monophyllous, femiquinquifid : 
the fegments are bioader, more acute and permanent. 
There are five petals united at the bafe-, obcordate and 
terminate in unequal, and plain divifions. I'he filaments 
are numerous and formed at the bottom in the fnape of 
a cylinder; lax at the top, jdaced on the corolla with 
antherae fomev/hat kidney-fhaped. The germen is orbi- 
culatcd, the iiyle is cylindraceous and fliort. The ftig- 
mata are- numerous, briftly and the length of the fcyle. 
The arilli form a v/horl about the receptacle which is in 
the fnape of a pillar, are deciduous and open internally, 
containing; foiitary, kidney-fliaped feeds. 
OjJicinalis. Marjiimalkw with fimple woolly leaves. 
In inarlhes near the fea. Per. Aiig. 
LAVATERA, Sea Tree Mallow. 
The cup is double, the exterior is monophyllous, femi- 
trifi'd, obrufe, faorrer, and permanent; the interior is 
monophyllous, femiquinquifid, more acute, more eredt 
and permanent. There are hve obcordate, plain, patent 
petals that coalefce at the bafe. I'he hiarnents are nu- 
merous, forming a cylinder at the bafe, lax towards 
the llimmit and inferted into trie corolla having kidney- 
fhaped anthers. The germen is orbicular, the ftyle 
cylindraceous and fnorr, the lligmata are numerous from 
feven to iourtecn, brdlly, and the length of the iiyle. 
The arilii form a deprefled whorl about the columnar 
receptacle, are deciduous and open internally, contain- 
ing i'olitary kidney ihaped feeds., 
Arhorea. Sea Tree Mallcvo with a flalk like a tree, 
woolly, plicated leaves, With feven angles, with pedun- 
cles 
