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MALVA grossulai'ifolia; a; imdora. 

 Gooseberry "leaved Cape-Mallow. 



MONADELPHIA POLYASBRIA. 



NaL ord. Malvace^. Jmneu gen. 271. Div. IL Stamina in tubum 

 corolliienira connata, indefinita. Fructus muliicapsularis; capsulse rerticil- 

 latae, in orbem dispositae aut in unam compactaB. 



MAL VA. Suprd vol 4. fol 295, 



JHv. Foliis anguhiU* 



M, grossuIarifoHaf foliis oblongis subtrilobis insequalitfer dentatis, peduncuUs 



soUtariis petioli loDg;itudine. WiUd. sp, pL 3. 783; et enum. % 730. 



Malva grossularifolia. Cavan, di$$. 2. 71. t ^-Jig^ 2. H&rt. Kew. ed, 2. 4. 

 214- 



Malva capensLs. j3. Lin, sp, pL ed. 2. 2, 968. 



Malva capensis fhitescens grossularise folio majore hirsute. JHllen. hari, 



elth, 209. t, 169-/ 207. 

 (|3) Malva balmmicay foliis ovatis subtrilobis acutis inaequaliter dentatia^ 



pedunculis solitariis petiolo longioribus. Willd. sp* pL 3- 782. 

 Malva balsamica. Jacq. ic. rat, I. (. 140; (nee verb misc. 2. 321, ^ forte 



fragrantis varietatem intelUgitur?) Hart, Kew. ed, 2. 4- 214. 



Frutex ramosus 4'pedaHs v- alHw carticejusco : rami hirsuii rubro-faMei, 

 novelli virentes. FoL (in plantd adultS) l-sesquiuncialia, laxiw hirsuta^ 

 orafa^ subirilobay depress<hnervo$at ineegualitir dmtata acutula : pet* breviar 

 lamind: stipulse gemiiUB, parvukB, ooattB, dliat^y acut^B, patentee, Flores 

 roieo-rubentes, intOs disco et vents sanguineo-purpurascentes, inodari, dia- 

 metro nndam parUm excedente. Pedunculi axillares, soiztarii, snhunift&rij 

 pilosis plurimuM longiores petiolo. Cal. inter, viridis, ext^pihstts, semi&fi- 

 dus segmentis ovato-cuspidatis: exter. 3-phyllus remotittscHlus^ j brevior, 

 foliolis distantibusy rotatis, lanceolatiSf segmentis interioris bis terve ajigtutio- 

 rtims, pHoso-ciliatis. Cor. G-partita rotata : lac. oblato-obcordattB, coniigtuB 

 (nequaqudm imbricantes) unguicuio brevi; disco et margme inferno viUoste. 

 Cotutnna staminea | circd tremor coroM^ pro 7 drci ^dicellato-aTUheriferat 

 deindi ad basin usque tota pilis stelUztis hirsuia^ bast macuHs & sanguineis 

 trantversi linearibus divisuris corolke oppositis notata : anth. numerosa^ nigri- 

 cantes^ laxiOs patentes, poUine ockroUuco^ pedicellis purpura. Germ, de- 

 presso-orbiculatum, st^liradiatum, disco viliosum: s^lus l^Jtdus? hbis 

 Jtliformi-elangatisy recurvatis, sanguineis, eapitulo stigmatoso concohri apt- 

 culatis. 



Our plant is the undoabted grossularifoliay and, if we 

 were to judge from the figure in Jacquin's " Icones," we 

 should say^ likewise balsamica: of which last species there 

 is no sample in the Banksian Herbarium, although it is 

 enumerated in the Hortus Kewensis- The description given 

 of balsamica by Jacquin in his ** Miscellanea;* attributes 



