312 APPENDIX. 
Genus 1. Prrrosporum, Linné, 
Shrubs or trees, with alternate or whorled leaves. Flowers often unisexual: 
sepals free; petals, five, hypogynous, recurved; stamens, five; ovary two- to 
five-celled, cells sometimes imperfect, placentas parietal. Fruit, a coriaceous or 
woody capsule ; seeds imbedded in black gluten, 
OrpEeR 4. MALVACEA:, 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees usually with light soft wood and tough fibrous inner 
bark. Leaves alternate, stipulate, often with stellate hairs. Flowers usually 
perfect: sepals, five, valvate; petals, five, hypogynous, often adnate to the 
staminal tube; stamens very numerous, their filaments united to form a tube 
which sheathes the style and is often divided at the top into segments, separating 
into numerous filaments, each carrying a reniform anther; ovary of one or 
more free or coherent carpels, sometimes whorled around a central axis; ovules, 
one or more; styles equalling the carpels in number, cohering below, filiform 
above. Fruit of one or several usually indehiscent cocci, or capsular; seeds 
reniform, often hairy, endosperm scanty. 
This order contains the various mallows, Malva, Althea, Lavatera ; also the 
cotton, Gossypium herbaceum; and the baobab, Adansonia digitata, the trunk of 
which is sometimes tooft. in circumference. 
Genus I. Puiacrantuus, Forster. 
Flowers perfect or unisexual: calyx usually persistent, five-toothed or lobed ; 
staminal tube much divided at the top; anthers numerous; ovary of one free 
carpel or of three, five, or more coherent carpels; styles filiform, united below, 
tips stigmatiferous on the inner face. Fruit of one indehiscent carpel, or of ten 
or more compressed carpels whorled round an axis. 
Genus 2. Houweria, A. Cunn. 
Leaves uniform or polymorphous, pellucid, dotted, alternate or fascicled. 
Flowers perfect : peduncles jointed in the middle; calyx broad, tubular; staminal 
tube divided at the top into five sets; ovary five-celled; styles, five, filiform; 
stigmas capitate. Fruit of three, five, or six flat indehiscent carpels arranged 
round an axis winged at the back; seed solitary. 
Orpver 5. TILIACEA. 
Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs. Leaves stipulate or exstipulate. Flowers 
perfect or unisexual: sepals, four or five; petals, four or five, hypogynous; 
stamens twice as many as the petals, or numerous, free; ovary two- to ten- 
celled; style simple; stigma lobed; ovules few or numerous. Fruit a one- or 
many-celled capsule, or a drupe or berry; seeds with fleshy or oily endosperm. 
This order includes the genus Tilia, which contains the lime-tree of 
Europe. 
GENUS I. ENTELEA, brown. 
A small tree, with light wood. Leaves alternate; stipules persistent. 
Sepals, four or five; petals, four or five; stamens very numerous; Ovary four- 
to six-celled. Fruit a four- ‘to six-celled capsule clothed with leng spines; 
seeds numerous, with oily endosperm. Monotypic. 
