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PALAVIJ* rhombifolia. 



Rhomh-leaved Palavi«. 



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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



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' Nat. ord. Malvaceae Juss. (Introduction to the natural system 



botany, p. 33.) . ,^ , ^ . 



PAL AVI A C^y.— Calyx nudus, 5-fidus. Carpella capsularia, mono- 

 ?PfJ°|^' in capitulum absque ordine aggregata.— Differt ^Sida, ut Malope 

 a Malva ; et a Malope ut Sida k Malva.— Dec. prodr. 1 . 458. 



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Thombifolia; foliis rhomboideis lobato-crenatis ad venas sparsim stellato- 

 pilosis pedunculo brevioribus, stipulis subulatis ciliatis viridibus, petalis 

 obovato-cuneatis obliqu^ emarginatis, cau|e prostrato ramoso parc^ stel- 

 lato-piloso— Gm/iaw in Edin. new philosophical journal, OcL 1830, 



p^ 369. 





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A native of Lima, in Peru, where seeds were collected 

 by Mr. Crukshanks, who presented them to the Horticul- 

 tural Society, in whose Garden the species blossomed in 

 the open border in August, but subsequently perished 

 without yielding seed. --- 



Dr. Graham, who obtained it at Edinburgh from the 

 same liberal correspondent, rightly distinguishes it from 

 *^alavia moschata, and describes it as follows : 



** Annual ? (Certainly.) Stem prostrate, branched, 

 sprinkled very loosely with rather rigid hairs, which are 

 single or stellate. Leaves Al inch long, 1^ broad, alter- 

 nate, petioled, soft, bright green above, paler below, rhom- 



Named by Cavanilles in honour of " Don Antonio Palau and Verdera, 

 rrofessor of Botany at Madrid, who has translated the Philosophia Botanica 

 Of Linnseus into Spanish, with notes, and Is now occupied with a similar 

 'abour upon the Genera et Species: of which the firat volume has already 

 Ppeared, containing the more recent genera and species, along with an 

 '^curate description of the plants, and their economical or officinal uses."— 



vanillesin 1785. 



