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seeds puberulent.—In the mountains of southwestern Texas. In many cases the leaf 
variation in passing up the stem is very great: the lower leaves may be triangular 
and as much as 5 em. long; others are 3-lobed, becoming narrower and hastate 
upwards, finally narrowing to linear. 
8. ABUTILON Tourn. (INDIAN MALLOW. ) 
Herbs or shrubs, often tomentose or velvety, with mostly cordate 
leaves, naked calyx, yellow flowers, and carpels with 2 to 9 ovules and 
naked (unappendaged) within.—A large and difficult tropical genus, 
represented in Texas by several Mexican species which are, as yet, in 
considerable confusion, in consequence of which the following specific 
descriptions are made fuller than usual and with no attempt at an 
analytic key. 
1, A. Jacquini Don. Herbaceous, stems 6 to 12 dm. high, branching, white-tomen- 
tose: leaves deeply cordate at base, elongated-ovate and gradually acuminate or cor- 
date-lanceolate, erose-serrate, very soft white tomentose beneath, scabrous-pnbescent 
or somewhat velvety above, 5 to 7.5 em. long: axillary peduncles mostly 1-flowered 
and exceeding the petioles: calyx white-tomentose, 5-parted and angled, of seem- 
ingly cordate acuminate sepals about equaling the yellow petals and the numerous 
subulately erect-awned and villous-hirsute carpels which are over 12 mm. long. (4, 
hypoleucum Gray.)—A Mexican species found in adjacent Texas as far as the Pecos, 
Reported from near New Braunfels. 
2. A. Wrightii Gray. Herbaceous, with stems 3 to 6 dm. long, decumbent, branch- 
ing, viscid-pubescent and villous with fine spreading hairs: leaves ovate-cordate, 
obtusish, sharply dentate above, 8 to 36 mm. long, greenish and scabrous velvety 
above, very soft white-tomentose beneath: axillary peduncles mostly 1-flowered, 
equaling the petioles, or the upper ones exceeding the leaves: calyx tomentose, 5- 
parted, with very acuminate divisions about equaling the golden corolla and the 
tomentulose subulate-beaked carpels, which are 12 mm. long.—Throughout southern 
and especially western Texas. 
3. A. Berlandieri Gray. Rather stout and branching (half woody) perennials, 
covered throughout with coarse stellate pubescence: leaves cordate-ovate (with shal- 
low sinus), long-acuminate, dentate, the blade often over 10 em. long, longer than 
the petioles, greener above: peduncles axillary, often several-flowered, much shorter 
than the leaves: calyx hoary with a close and coarse stellate pubescence, its lobes 
broadly ovate and acuminate: corolla yellow or orange, 6 to 10 mm. long, a little 
shorter than the calyx: carpels about 9, acuminate, coarsely stellate pubescent, about 
12 mm. long.—A Mexican species, collected in Texas from Nueces to Webb County 
and southward. 
4. A. Nealleyi Coulter. Stem slender and erect, 6 to 12 dm. high, soft puberulent 
above, becoming glabrous below: leaves broadly cordate, long acuminate, entire or 
slightly crenate, green and soft puberulent (becoming glabrous) above, white with 
fine dcnse stellate pubescence beneath, 6 to 10 em. long, smaller above, on long peti- 
oles: flowers in loose, few-flowered, long-peduncled, upper-axillary and terminal 
panicles, very small, not more than 4 mm, high: calyx stellate-pubescent, the ovate 
acute lobes about half as long as the yellow or orange petals and very much shorter 
than the carpels, which are 5, puberulent, with a short acuminate beak, becoming 6 
to 8mm. long, 2 or 3 seeded: seeds usually with a tuft of white hairs.— Hidalgo 
County. A large-leaved, rather naked-paniculate and sinall-flowered species, related 
to a small Mexican group, ; 
5. A.malacum Watson. Tall, suffrutescent and branching, very finely and closely 
velvety pubescent throughout: leaves cordate, acute, acutely and somewhat un- 
equally dentate, 3.5 to 10 em. long and broad, about equaling the petiole: panicles 
