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ACHANIA mollis. «. 



Lobcd- leaved woolly Achania. 



MONADELPHIA FOLYASimiA. 



ACIIA\IA. (Stam. in tubuni coroUiferutn connata, indrfinita. 

 Fructus simplex multiloc.) Cal. tubulosus 10-striatus 5~deiitatus, Ctltculo 

 8-phyllo cinctus (uterque persistens). Pet. convoluta, basi hino auiicu- 

 lata. A nth. in apice & superfine tubi contorti. Stylus 1 ; stig. JO. 



Dacca 5-loc, 5-sperma. Frutex; flora solitarii axil/ares. Jussieu. 



gen. 273; sub Malvavisco. 



A. mollis f foliis tomentosis, foliolis calycis exterioris patulis. Hort. Kcw. 



2. 459. Ed. 2. 4. 233. Hi lid. sp.pl. 3. 83Q. 

 (cc) foliis angulatis. Dryander. in sched. banks. 

 Achania mollis. Andrews s reposit. 452. 

 (jS) foliis indivisis. Dryander. loc. cit. 

 Achania mollis. Thompson's bot. displ. t. 5. 



Caulis teres, erect us f tomentosus, supra distantlr Sf divaricate ramosus. 

 Folia petiolata, rcmota, mollia 9 canescentia, ovata et indivise acuminata v. 

 ovato-triloba lobo medio angulato-attenuato lateralibus brevissimis, petiolo 

 aliquoties longiora, subserrato-dentata. Flores longiiis peduncu/ati, erecti 9 

 unciales, in foliis rarneis Sf caulinis supemis. Cal. exter. sub-8 phyllns ; 

 foliola pat ma : inter, monophyllus, hinc Jissura una cccteris profundiore : 

 uter que villosus. Cor. turbinato-convoluta : pet. 5, obovato-oblonga, hinc basi 

 aucta lobo columnam slamineam involvente. Tubus stamineus apice 5-dcn- 

 tatus : anth. ex oblongis orbiculatim dehiscentes ; pollen e sphcerulis Idevibus 

 grossiits granulatum. Stigmata Jiinbriata, punicea. 



We have two varieties of this species in our gardens : the 



one with ovate-oblong undivided acuminate leaves intro- 

 duced from Jamaica; the other, the present plant, intro- 

 duced in 1780 by Mr. Benjamin Bewick, from South Ame- 

 rica. We have also two other species of the genus, presently 

 distinguishable by the foliage, but very similar in the bloom 

 to each other. All of them grow in a loose wide-spreading 

 way, so as to take up much room, but Malvavhcus far more 

 so than the present; of which we have never seen any 



sp 



four feet. When its flowers, 

 of the unner leaves of the stem and 



branches, are numerous, it is very ornamental, more so than 

 either of the other two. In Malvaviscus, which is the 

 largest growing, and of the oldest date of the three with 

 us, the foliage is of a dark shining green and rough, in the 



present grey and clouded, being covered with a short, 



