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Mowers axillary or terminal. No involucral bracts. Calyx 5-cleft. 
Staminal tube divided at the apex into numerous filaments. Ovary 
5-oo -celled, each cell with 1-3 or rarely more ovules. Styles as many 
as the cells of the ovary ; stig mas capitate. 
Ripe carpels separating from the short central axis, rounded on the 
back, dehiscent, truncate, pointed, apiculate or with a short oblique or 
horizontal mupro. Seeds reniform, ascending or horizontal, dark brown. 
Species about 170. 
Distribution : — In nearly all warm regions. 
1, Abutilon fruticosum (Fresen.) Guill. et Perr. FI. Seneg. I, 73; 
Franch. Sert. Somal. in Miss. Revoil p. 15 ; Boiss. FI. Or. I, 836; Hook 
f. FI. Brit. Ind. I, 328 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 187. 
Abutilon denticulatum Planch, in Herb. Hook. ; Anders. Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 8. 
Abutilon microphyllum A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss. I, 70. 
Sida kotschyi Hochst. mss. 
Sida gracilis R. Br. in Salt^s Abyss. App. 65. 
Sida denticulata Fresen. in Mus. Senckenb. I, 182. 
Description : — A much branched rigid perennial or undershrub, densely 
covered with fine white down. Leaves |-2 inches long, on short stalks, 
cordate-ovate, acute, denticulate, covered with soft down on both sur- 
faces; stipules linear. 
Peduncles solitary, axillary, longer than the petiole, 1-3 flowered, 
jointed. Sepals half the length of the corolla, ovate, acute. Corolla 
yellow. Carpels 1 0, persistent, each one oblong, truncate, without beak, 
splitting down the back. 
Fruit £ inch long, cylindrical, truncate. Seeds 2-3 in each carpel, 
small, brown, dotted with minute white hooked hairs. 
Flowers : — March 1878 (Perry). 
Locality : — Goldmore Yallev (Defl.) ; on the Shum Shum Range 
(Schweinf.) ; without locality (Hook., Birdw., Perry). 
Distribution : — Canaries, Trop. Africa, Palestine, Arabia, India, 
Ceylon. 
2. Hibiscus L. 
Herbs, shrubs or small trees, generally more or less downy or hairy. 
Leaves various, usually palmately divided. Stipules usually small and 
deciduous. Involucral bracts 4-12, rarely 0. 
Sepals 5, valvate. Staminal tube bearing on the outside short fila- 
ments along its entire length, and sometimes also at the apex, summit 
truncate or 5-toothed, anthers reniform. Ovary 5-celled, the cells 
