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The Oriental Poppy (ABUTILON From the Greek)

ABUTILON. From the Greek for mulberry-tree, which the larger kinds of abutilon resemble; or from the Arabic for mallow. N.O., Malvaceoe. LINNAEAN: 16, Monadelphia; 8, Polyandria.--The malvaceous order comprises herbs, shrubs, and trees, with regular showy flowers, usually with five divisions, but sometimes with three or four. The petals are spirally twisted before the flowers open, and they are united by their claws to the base of the tube formed by the union of the filaments, so that the corolla falls off entire. The stamens are curiously united by their filaments into a tube, within which is the style. The ovary consists of numerous carpels arranged in a whorl. The fruit is a cluster of seed-vessels arranged around a central axis. In this order we find the mallow, hibiscus, sida, the cotton-plant, or gossypium, and the abutilon.