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xxvT. MALVACE^. (Maswell T. Masters.) 



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the base. Calyx "broadly campanulate, lobes deltoid. Corolla yellow, 2-3 times longer 

 than the calyx. Ovary depressed CarpeU 5, woody, pyriibrm, splitting through the 

 buck, 3-horiied at the apex, and with 4 linear obtuse wing-like appendages at the base. 

 — Leaves gratefully acid, as in OxaliSj Dalzell. 



6. P. proplnqua, Garcke in Schweinf. Fl, JEthiap, i. 55 ; suffrutescent, 

 stellate-hairy, leaves oblong crenate, bracteoles 10 linear-lanceolate, carpels 

 vrith 2 short prickles. Mast in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. I 191. P. grewioides, 

 IIochiL PL Schimp, Exsicc. Abyss, ; Boiss. FL Orient i. 837. 



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Leaves 1-4 in,, subcordate ; petioles shorter than the leaves ; stipules lyiear- 

 fiubulate. Peduncles solitary, axillary or clustered at the ends of the branches. 

 Bracteoles nearly free, one-half longer than the ovate lanceolate sepals. Corolla yellow, 

 1 in. diam., exceeding the bracteoles. Fruit subglobose, depressed; carpels woody. 



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■ Under the name Diphpenta, Alefeld (in (Estr. Bot. Zeit.1863, p. 11) describes » 

 genuH of 31alvace<B, which he says differs from Pavonla in the presence of 5 stigniut 

 branches instead of 10. To tliis genus he refers Pavonia odorata, Wiild., ^^*^ ? ^?jv 

 species, which he calls D. pedunculosa, and which, he says, has been confused wi 

 P zeylanica, I have seen no specimen of this genus, and suspect some error or ace - 

 dental cohesion of styles. 



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Shrubs. Leaves entire or lobed. Flowers shortly peduncled, axillary or 

 ustered and terminal Bracteoles 10. Sepals 5, connate below. "^^. ? ; 

 »nnate below and adnate to the tube of the stamens. Staminal-tube giM"o 

 F many filaments below the apex. Ovary 10-celled, cells 1-ovuled ; styles ly 

 connate below, stigma_s capitate. Capside loculicidally 10 



reniform, ascending,— Distrib. The following are the only species. , ../jv 



1. D. trilobata, Wight Ic. t. 88 ; lower leaves deeply 3-lobed, bracteoles 

 considerably shorter than the calyx. I)alz. <k Gibs. Bomb. FL 21. ^ ; .| 



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Western Peninsula; Mysore, the Concan, and Dekkan. ■ . • .j^e 

 A sbrub, Iranches more or less hispid or tomentose. Upper leaves sometimes > 

 '-" ' ■ - - ... -olate, imeiv 



solitary, axillary, as long or longer than the petiole. Flowers 2 in. diam. -^''^ ^^ 

 linear. Sepak deltoid, connate below, twice the length of the bracteoles. {/"i' 

 hispid. 



2. D. crotonlfoUa, W. <k A. Prodr. I 52 ; leaves simple rarely 10°^, 

 coarsely toothed, bracteoles nearly as long as the calyx. Wi^M -'^ :, 

 Hibiscus crotonifolius, Wall. Cat. 1900 and 1901. H. pterosnermoiu 

 Wight mss. ; Wall. Cat. 1901 B. H. coriaceus, Heyne mss. ; W. & ^- ^•*'- 



Western rENisauLA ; Mysore and Madura. Ui-per Ganoetic plain, ^'''^•.^a,^^ 

 A shrub. Leaves 4 by 2 in., leathery, simple or sHghtly lobed, co'""'*.'^^., ' .jth a 

 Tdvetv on both surfaces with a short dense tonientum, whitish beneath rniauu 



flZ'tJIHZ^' ^^j!f«'P«'-'f Hin.; «tip«les ^j— ^jg^ii^U^lSpiJ; : 



n. 213?) of which the flow^ 



t,»,..v.w.«.. j.w.*. «t luc uu«»3, ^eiioie i^in.; stipules lines 

 than the petiole. Bracteoles nearly as long as the calyx. 



Among Maingay's specimensfrom Rangoon, is one (n. 213?) «f w^\^^, ^^h 4cenfl«. 

 too imperfect to allow of examinati.m, but which is probably referable to ^'^^ l^^ry- 

 Leaves 5 by 2 in., oblong lanceolate, subcordate, sometimes 3-lobetl at the *P^*' gtbe 

 tomentose beneath ; peti(»le J in. Peduncle solitary, axillary, 1-flowered, »^/^,°)jDoeo- 

 petiole. Bracteoles 10, subulate-laaceolate, half the length of the calyxj sep^w 

 late. Corot/a pink, 4 in. diam, V - ^ ^ '- ? 





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