the Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
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V. Malva afpera major aquatica, ex hortenfium few rofearum genere, flore minor: 
Tateo, feccine aculeato. Cat. p. 96. Tab. 137. Fig. 1. 
This Plane rifes to about four Foot high, having one upright, ftrong, 
round, green Staik, with a very rough, or almoft prickly hair on it, with 
Leaves and Branches coming out every Jnch and half without any order. 
They are like thofe of the Holyoks or Lappa minor, of a frefh grecn colour, 
{mooth, almoft round, being four Inches long, three and an half broad, an- 
gular, having two or three points, finuated, and indented about the edges, 
and ftanding on large Inch long Foot-Stalks. Ex alis foliorum, onthe fame 
rough one quarter of an Inch long hairy Foot-Stalk, ftand feveral Flowers, 
having each one green, ecard, rough Leaf under it. The Flower is made up 
of five large yellow Petala, with yellow Stamina in the middle. After the 
Flowers follow five or feven triangular, whitifh brown colour'd Sceds, be- 
ing pointed on the under part, and round in the upper, plac’d like thofe 
of the Mallows, inclos’d in a fmall Ca/yx, and having that ear’d Leaf, 
formerly defcribed with the Flowers, now turn’d brown, for their cover. 
It grows in watry places of the Savanna’s, and by the River fides in Fu- 
maica, and the Caribes. | axl 
If this be that defcribed by Péfo he us’d the Leaves of it in Clyfters, as 
the European Althea, and found no difference. 
Any body who perufes the Defcription of this Plant, and looks on its 
Figure, and compares them with the Figure of Althea abutili foliis, frudtn 
bilpido Americana Plaken. Alm. p25. Phyt. Tab. 132. Fig. 5. will not (with 
Dr. Plokenet, p. 10. of his Mantiffa) think they may be the fame. 
VI, Malva minor fupina betonica folio, flore coccineo, feminibus afperis. Cat.,p. 
96. Zab. 137. Fig.2. 
This has a long whitifh Root, very deeply fixed in the Ground, drawing 
Nourifhment to the Plant by many fibres. The Stalks are roand, tough, 
wooddy, whitifh, and {pread on the furface of the Earth, round the top of 
the Root, as from the {ame Center, fora Foot in Diameter. The Leaves 
come out along the Stalks here and there, though in greater abundance at 
the Stalksends, feveral being there together,, They ftand on’one third: part 
of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, are half an Inch long, and one quarcer broad, 
ferrated about the edges, and of a dark green colour. The Flowers come 
out of the cnds of the Stalks three or four together, they are pentaperalous, 
and of apurplifh red colour, and after thefe follow {cveral Seeds, fet round a 
common Center, like thofe of this Kind, included in fome hai capfular 
Leaves, each Sced being almoft triangular, and having its outfide made 
rough with feveral {mall whicifh prickles. 
. ft grows in the dry piacere the ‘Town Savannas, and Flowers after Rains. 
The Defcription and Figure of this Plant thew it to be very differeht. from 
the .dlcca pufilia fupina geranii exigui maritimi folio, ¢yc.\ Plukens Alm p: “14. 
Phyt. Tab. 132. Fig. 4. ring j serel bar booW a5).5- 
VIL DMalva minor ereits betonica folio, flore \luteo; femine Auplici roftro fen 
aceite predito, Cat. p. 96. Malva Indica foliis fubrotundis. Ti ournef. Inft. 
$95, on. ial 
.. The Root of this is ftronger, and every way larger than the former, the 
Branches more woody and erect, of a darker brown colour, tifing’a Foot 
high, the Leaves are broader at bottom, dceplier ferrated, and for. the mott 
part purple about the edges, fomething like Betony Leaves, the Flowers 
are.of an Orange colour, but in every thing elfe ic agrees with the former, 
having 
