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MALVA* umbellata. 





Umbel-flowered Mallow. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



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

 Botany, p. 33.) 



MALVA. — Supra, vol. 4. fol. 296. 



§ Sphceroma. Carpella unilocularia 2-oo-sperma in fructum globulosum 

 coalita. Pedunculi axillares seepius multiflori. Caulis fruticosus. — An 

 genus proprium ? De Cand. prodr. 1 . 435. 

 M. umbellata, flocculoso-tomentosa; foliis cordatis sub-7-Iobatis, pedunculis 



elongatis sub-5-floris, bracteis calycinis obovatis deciduis, stipulis subu- 



latis, caule fruticoso. D. Don MSS. 

 M. umbellata. Cav. ic. 1. p. 64. t. 95. Willd. sp. pi. 3. p. 779. Dec. 



prodr. 1 . p. 435. 

 M. rosea. Dec. I.e. 1. p. 435. 



Planta/rwft'cosa, erecta, ramosa, ulnaris et ultrd, pilis stellatis confer- 

 tissimis flocculoso-tomentosa. Folia longt petiolata, cordata, subseptem- 

 lobata, peltati-nervia, supra plana, demum glabrata, viridia, subtiis incana, 

 costata, palmaria : lobis brevibus, acutis, margine crenatis. Petioli teretius- 

 culi, tripollicares. Stipuhe breves, erectce, subulatce, decidua. Pedunculi 

 axillares, cylindracei, 3-unciales, plerumque triflori, rarius 2- v. 5-flort. 

 Pedicelli semiunciales, robusti. Bractese calycinse 3, obovatee, concavte, 

 decidual. Calyx arnplus, campanulatus, coriaceus, 5-lobus: lobis semuwatis, 

 acutis, erectis. Petala obcordata, pollicaria, coccinea, ungue albido. *ila- 

 mentorum eolumna alba, petalis brevior. Antherte aurea. Stigmata 

 rosea. Ovaria numerosa (50-60), M massam spha>roideam agglomerata. 



D.Don MSS. 



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This curious species has, as Cavanilles has already 

 well remarked, more the look oitiSida than of a species of 

 the present genus. It belongs to M. De Candolle's section 

 Sphceroma, which, in our opinion, deserves to be regarded 

 as a distinct group. It is an inhabitant of Mexico; and, 



* See fol. 1362. 



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