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ifakchra.] xxvi. MALVACEiE. • (Maxwell T. Masters.) 329 



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Herbs. 



6.-^ MAXiiLCKRA, Linn. 



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Herbs. Leaves angled. Flowers in dense heads, usually intermixed with 

 Dracteoles. Seimk 5, forming below the middle a cup-like tube. Fetcds 5, 

 coiierent below, and connate at the base with the tube of the stamens. 

 ^tamtnal-tube truncate or 5-toothed, filaments numerous. Carpels 5, 

 ■ovuied ; styles 10. Mpe carpels 1-seeded, indehiscent, separating from the 

 axis, smooth. Seeds reniforra, ascending.— Disteib. Species 5 or 6, all Ame- 

 rican but the following, wliich is widely distributed througliout the tropics. 



M. 



fAfi" ^^^^TATA, Z. ; DC. Prodr. i. 440; leaves roundish-angled cordate 

 lootlied, bracteoles with a white spot at the base. Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 



4A- i. 188. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India from tlie North West provinces to the Carnatic, 

 FODably mti-oduced.— DisTRiB. W. tropical Afi-ica, tropical America. 

 stimT* r ""^ perennial, coarsely hairy. Leaves 5-6 in. wide or less ; petiole 4 in. ; 

 thp k 1 ^'^' ^''^""'^''^ i" axillary or terminal heads. Petefevellow or white, longer than 



e subulate sepals. Fruit subglobose, depressed.— It is singular that this plant is not 



Wiili°h' f 'i^""-^^ "^^^^^ °'" ^"^''^U'-gh, and that it is not included in Wall. Cat. In 

 nolo '^r • ^^''"*"'i™. however, there are some specimens without numbers, and with 

 wcaiities assigned, while others are from the Calcutta garden. 



6. VKEITA, Linn. 



1m^ or undershrubs, more or less covered with rigid stellate hairs. 

 ■ ^mm angled, or lobed. Flowers clustered. Bracteoles 5, adnate to the 5-cleft 

 lose af ^/J°^^^i"^es coherent at the base into a cup. Petals 5, often tomen- 

 tubp f fu ' ^^^^ above, connate below and united to the base of the 



ijearlv ''^^. f 'arnens. Staminal-tube truncate or minutely toothed. Anthers 

 brinob ^ ■ ^''«^J' 5-celled, cells 1 -ovuied, opposite the petals ; stigmatic 

 smootl ^- ^ J '' ^*^^Smas capitate. Ripe carpels covered with hooked bristles or 

 cotv^' ^"™scent, separating from the axis when ripe. Seed ascending ; 

 of trnr- "i^ bent and folded ; radicle inferior.— Distbib. Species 4-5, natives 

 "pical and subtropical countries ; 2 only are confined to Asia. 



J ^'«'ye^ armed with hooked bristles. . 



midd^' 't?^*^*' ^^^^- ; leaves rounded angled not divided beyond the 

 ^'uU h .. ^''''^''' i- 441 ; Foxb. Fl. Ind.iu.\82; W. ' ' ^ " • "^ ■ 

 Ind'plf: 1^28 ; Dalz. dh Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 18 ; Thwaites 



Inci. HU82^*' ^' ^^^* • ^- *^''"*' "^''^ ^^^- ^^^^ ^' ^'^ 



^''^SSla '^'^*"^"t«''i over tlie hotter parts of India —Distbib. Tropics of both 



•date's i7f^b, ^erl'aceous. more or less hairy. Leaves about 1-2 by 2-3 in., cor- 

 "iree en ,f i ' '*'^®^ ^cnte or obtuse; nerves 5-7, piouiinent on the under surface, Uie 

 n^nallv A, i' °'' }^^ ™'^'-'l> only provided with a gland on the under surface ; pctinle 

 ^W^« 2^' S*" ^^^ l^>"d«- -Bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, equalling the calyx. 

 ' Var ] 1 , .C«'yffc densely pubescent, echinate. ,. , , 



^^i wi i, f ''i"^,"«c«ia, DO. Prod. i. 441 (sp.) ; herbaceous, leaves roundish scarcely 



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Fn. ' 25 ; Miq. FL 



palmata, Foxb. Fl. 



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,,; niott doubt this being a distinct species, but Dalzell considers it'very distinct. 



•' ^'•siiluata. /;;«« > nn p^^^^ i- '4.11 • leaves d™'^'^'^ K^i^^r ♦ 



^uuie into 5 



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piunatifid 



• ^"^ " >'^^^"g lobes narrowed at the base ana uiicu piin^^^x--"- ----- 



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