. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCLV. —ViA^ianiaceae.—Trop^ Fig. CCLV.—Flower of Tropsolum majus, showing the spur. 368 MALVACE^. [HyPOGYNOUS EXOGENS. Order CXXX. MALVACEAE.—Mallowworts. Malvaceae, Juss. Gen. 271. (1789) in part.; Brown in Voy. to Congo, jo. 8 ; Kunth. Diss, ; 1. 429. (1829); Endl. Gen. ccis.; Meisner, Gen. p. 26. ; Wight. Illustr. 1. p. 65. Diagnosis.— Malval Exogens, toith columtiar stamens all perfect, and l-celled anthers turned i
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. Fig. CCLV. —ViA^ianiaceae.—Trop^ Fig. CCLV.—Flower of Tropsolum majus, showing the spur. 368 MALVACE^. [HyPOGYNOUS EXOGENS. Order CXXX. MALVACEAE.—Mallowworts. Malvaceae, Juss. Gen. 271. (1789) in part.; Brown in Voy. to Congo, jo. 8 ; Kunth. Diss, ; 1. 429. (1829); Endl. Gen. ccis.; Meisner, Gen. p. 26. ; Wight. Illustr. 1. p. 65. Diagnosis.— Malval Exogens, toith columtiar stamens all perfect, and l-celled anthers turned plants, trees, or slirubs. Leaves alternate, more or less divided, stellate if present. Peduncles usually axillary. Flowers showy, often inclosedin an involucre of various forms. Sepals 5, very seldom 3 or 4, more or less united at the. base, with a valvate festivation. Petals ofthe same nimiber as the sepals, hj-pogjiious,with a twisted eestivation, either distinctor adliering to the tube of the 00, all perfect, hypogynous ; fila-ments monadelphous ; anthers 1 - celled,reniform, burstuig transversely. Ovaryformed by the union of several carpelsround a common axis, either distuict orimited ; OATiles definite or indefinite, attachedto the inner angle of the cells, amphitropalor semianatropal; styles the same number as the carpels, either unitedstigmas variable. Fruit either capsular or baccate, its carpels being either Fig. CCLVI. or distinctmonosper- Fig. CCLVI.—Abutilon macropodum. 1. an unexpanded flower; 2. the stamens and styles ;3. a ripe fruit, consisting of many carpels, whose upper extremities are free and radiant : 4. a ripefruit of the Malva sylvestris, natural size ; 5. a transverse section of tlie same fruit, from wliich all theseeds have been taken except one, which is seen at C ; G. a
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