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Xil. Althea {picata betonice folio, flore luteo, habitiori (pica, Cat. p.97. Tab. 
138. Fig. 4. 
sys has a three or four Inches long deep Root, fending up a pale green 
Stalk two or three Foot high, branclyd out into feveral Branches, and Twigs 
which are befer at three quarters of an Inches diftance, with Leaves almoft 
round, not fo long as the precedent, ftanding on three quarters of an inch 
long Foot-Stalk, They arean Inch and a quarter long, and three quarters 
of an Inch broad at roundifh Bafe, where broadeft, indented about the edges, 
of a pale green colour, and {mooth. The tops of the Twigs and Branches 
for an Inches length, are thick fet {pike fafhion, wirh Orange colour’d 
Flowers {tanding in five leaved Calyces, which are very hirfute. After them 
follow a great many brown Seeds, in fituation, fhape, cc. like thofe of thé 
other Mallows. bo 
“Tis very common in clear’d, barren, rocky Lands. 
XII. Abstilon arboreum {picatum, betonice folio incano, flore minore purpurco. 
Cat. 2.97. Tab. 138. Fig. 2, 3... AR nid ene oblongo mucronato 
glanco folio profunde venofo margine undulato crifpo. Pluken. Alm p.r52 Tab. 
259. Fig.62 Vel Ricinus ( forte) althea folio Famaicenfis glauco profunde venofo 
margine undulate crifpo, Eju{d. ib Alm, p. 321.2 vel betonica arbore{cens Made- 
rafpatana villofis fcliis profunde venofis. Ejufd. tb. Tab.1502. Fig. 5; & 6? 
Fel. Althea Famaicenfis, arborea, foliis oblongis mucronatis glabris floribus amene 
rubellis, Ejufd. Tab. 259. Fig.3? Malva vere crucis frute{cens incana bir{uta. 
flore parvo caruleo purpurco Herm. par. Bat. pr. p. 350. 
This Tree rifeth eo about ten Foot high, by a Trunc as big as ones Leg, 
covered with an almoft {mooth, reddifh Bark. It has feveral Branches to- 
wards the top, equally {pread on every hand, whofe Twigs have at their ends: 
feveral Leaves ftanding on an eighth part of an Inch long Foot-Stalks,.. They, 
are three quarters of an Inch long, one third part of an Inch broad, near 
the Bafe, where round and broadeft, {nipt about the edges and white, or 
of a very pale green colour, and pointed. Ex alis foliorum, on rhe tops, 
of the Branches, ftand feveral pentapetalous purple coloured Flowers fet 
racematim in Branches or Spikes, about yellow Stamina, in a. few. green Cap- 
{ular Leaves. After which follow Seeds in. Heads. juftlike thofe.of the Al- 
cee arboree, each Seed being lodged in a diftin@ Cell, five of thefe making 
up the Seed-Veffel, each of the five being pointed, and having two Ale 
extantes. 
It grows in feveral wooddy places about the Town. | 
There is a variety of this, which is larger in its Leaves, and not fo 
white above as below. 
XIV. Abutilon fruticolum, foliis fubrotundis ferratis, floribys albis. pemtape- 
talis ad alas foliorum conglomeratis, Cat. .p.97. Tab, 135+ Fig. req Am Malva 
Americana, ulmifolia, floribus conglobatis ad foliorum alas, Plum. Tournef.. Inf. 
. 96? fit : : 
: This Shrub rifeth to about five Foot high, by.a round Stem, covered with 
a brown {mooth Bark, it has feveral long Branches, having Leaves going 
out at uncertain intervalsfrom the oppofite fides alternatively, . They ttand 
on one third pare of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, are an Inch and an half 
long, and half as broad, are round at the beginning, and broadeft very near 
the Foot-Stalks end, and from thence grow lefsto the end.. They are thin, 
of a very green colour, and have Ribscon{picuous through the whole Leaf, 
{taooth, and cut about the edges like Nettle Leaves. Ex alis foliorum come 
the Flowers, being feveral, ftandinig in a knot almoft round the Stem, abs 
thofe 
