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1891.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
folded or crura pled. — Distrib. Abundant in warm regions, common in 
temperate, absent from arctic. Genera 57 ; known species about 700. 
A. Staminal tube entire, or but slightly divided at the apex. 
Tribe I. Malveoe. Herbs or shrubs. Ripe carpels separating from the 
axis. Styles as many as the carpels. 
Ovules solitary ; carpels with convergent, often 
beaked, apices 
Ovules 2 or more ; carpels with divergent, not 
beaked, apices 
Tribe II. Urenece. Styles or stigmatio branches twice 
as many as the carpels. 
Fruit of indehiscent cocci ... ... 
Tribe III. Hibiscece. Herbs or shrubs. Fruit cap- 
sular. Sepals leafy. Staminal-tube truncate 
or 5-toothed at the apex. 
Calyx toothed : stigmas distinct, spreading ... 
„ truncate : stigmas united 
B. Staminal tube short or divided into single 
filaments to its base. 
Tribe 1Y. Bombaciae. Trees. Sepals leathery : 
styles connate or free. Fruit capsular. 
Leaves digitately compound, calyx truncate or 
irregularly 3 to 5-lobed ; seed silky outside. 
Anthers solitary ... ... ... 
,, in groups of 2 or 3 
Leaves simple, usually scaly ; fruit woody, rnuri- 
1. Sida. 
2. Abutilon. 
3. TJrena. 
4. Hibiscus. 
5. Thespesia, 
6 . 
7. 
Bombax. 
Friodendron. 
cate ; seeds arillate. 
Calyx tubular or bell-shaped. 
Anthers linear, cells sinuous ... 8. Burio. 
Anthers globose, opening by a pore ... 9. Boschia. 
Calyx dilated at the base. 
Calyx finally forming a cushion-shaped annu- 
lus ... ... ... ... 10. Neesia. 
Calyx 5-pouched at the base, petals inserted 
on the calyx ... ... ... H. Coelostegia. 
1. Sida, Linn. 
Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire or lobed. Bracteoles 0. 
Calyx of 5 valvate sepals, tubular below. Corolla of 5 petals, free above, 
connate below and adnate to the tube of the stamens. Staminal-tube 
dividing at the summit into numerous anther- bearing filaments. Carpels 
5 or more, wliorled ; styles as many as the carpels, stigmas terminal. 
