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axillary and terminal: calyx-lobes lanceolate, 6 to 8 mm. long, half as long as the 
orange petals: carpels 5, acutish, coarsely stellate-pubescent, equaling the erect 
calyx.—Collected in southern Texas from Wilson County to El Paso. 
6. A.incanum Don. Herbaceous, more or less branched above, 3 to 6 dm. high, 
minutely tomentose: leaves cordate or cordate-ovate, acute or acuminate, softly 
pubescent, irregularly serrate, 2.5 to 5 cm. long: peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, 
somewhat racemose at the upper part of the branches: calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, 
usually reflexed in fruit, not half as long as the orange or pinkish petals, which are 
6 to 8mm. long: carpels 8, pubescent, obtuse or acute and pointless. (A. Texensis 
Torr. & Gray.) —Common throughout southern and western Texas. Very variable as 
to the size of the leaves. 
7. A.parvulum Gray. Stems slender and spreading or trailing, from a woody 
root, paniculate above: cinereous-tomentose with a lax minute pubescence, and 
branchlets pilose with spreading hairs: leaves small, 12 to 25 mm. broad, cordate 
and dentate, sometimes 3-lobed, usually obtuse: peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, 
longer than the leaves: calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, reflexed in fruit, shorter than 
the pinkish or red petals which are about 4 mm. long, and much shorter than the 5 
somewhat tomentose carpels, which are erect and acute, becoming 8 mm. long.— 
Common throughout southern and western Texas. 
8. A. holosericeum Scheele. Stout and leafy, 9 to 18 dm. high, remarkably vel- 
vety throughout with fine soft stellate pubescence, the young leaves and lower sur- 
faces of older ones white, larger leaves sometimes nearly 3 dm. in diameter and on 
long petioles: upper leaves broadly cordate, with usually a deep sinus, acuminate, 
more or less toothed and often somewhat 3-lobed: peduncles axillary, several to 
many-flowered, becoming rather closely paniculate above: calyx-lobes ovate, cuspi- 
date, densely pubescent, shorter than the deep orange-yellow petals which are 12 
mm. or more long, but inclosing the 5 densely pubescent and beaked carpels, which 
are peculiar in having a pair of seeds in the upper part and but one in the lower.— 
Throughout southern and western Texas. 
9, A.crispum Don. Suffrutescent and slender, 3 to 6 dm. high, more or less 
branching, with velvety leaves, which are round-cordate, acuminate, and finely cre- 
nate, upper ones nearly sessile : peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, elongated and fili- 
form, refracted after flowering: petals whitish, 6 to8 mm. long, exceeding the calyx: 
carpels 10, beakless, inflated and wrinkled, hispid, 8 to 12 mm. long.—All along the 
southern frontier of Texas. Well marked by its inflated carpels. 
9. WISSADULA Medik. 
Differs from Abutilon only in the carpels having a partition across 
the cell above the lower seed. 
1. W. mucronulata Gray. Suffrutescent: leaves cordate, entire, green and 
smoothish above, palerand somewhat velvety beneath: peduncles paniculately several- 
flowered : flowers very small, with obovate petals: carpels obovate, smoothish, with 
2 short horns, 4 to 5-seeded.—On the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and more than 
likely to oceur within our boundaries. 
10. MALACHRA L. 
Herbs, hispid with sharp bristly hairs, with long-petioled, rounded, 
usually palmately lobed leaves, axillary peduncles terminated by a head 
of 5 or more sessile flowers inclosed by an involucre of 3 or more cor- 
date floral leaves, yellow or whitish petals, 10 styles, and 5 one-ovuled 
obtuse and pointless dry carpels. 
