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5. MALVA L. Matiow. 
Annual or perennial herbs with orbicular or reniform, sometimes obscurely lobed 
or crenate leaves; flowers axillary, solitary or in small clusters; calyx with 3 or 2 
distinct bracts; carpels numerous, 1-celled, reniform when mature, beakless, disposed 
around the axis in a disklike fruit. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Margins of the leaves crisped; plants erect..............-..--.-- 3. M. crispa. 
Margins of the leaves not crisped; plants erect or prostrate. 
Stems erect; calyx reflexed in fruit..............2.....--2.- 1. M. parviflora. 
Stems prostrate; calyx not reflexed in fruit.................. 2. M. rotundifolia. 
1. Malva parviflora L. Amoen. Acad. 3: 416. 1756. 
Type LOCALITY: Not stated. 
Rance: A native of the Old World, introduced in the southern and western United 
States. 
New Mexico: Santa Fe; Pecos; Kingston; Las Cruces; Teel; Capitan; Taos; Las 
Vegas; White Mountains. Upper Sonoran Zone. 
2. Malva rotundifolia L. Sp. Pl. 688. 1753. COMMON MALLOW. 
Type Locauiry: ‘‘Habitat in Europae ruderatis, viis, plateis.”’ 
New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Kingston; Raton; Santa Fe; Gallinas Planting 
Station. 
A weed in waste ground. 
3. Malva crispa L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 970. 1763. CURLED MALLOW. 
Malva verticillata crispa L. Sp. Pl. 689. 1753. 
Type Locatity: Not stated. 
New Mexico: Tularosa; Shiprock. 
6. GAYOIDES Small. 
Slender perennial herb with the aspect of Abutilon, but the carpels with very thin 
membranous walls and rounded at the apex rather than acute or beaked. 
1. Gayoides crispum (L.) Small, Fl. Southeast. U. 8. 764. 1903. 
Sida crispa 1. Sp. Pl. 685. 1753. 
Abutilon crispum Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1. 53. 1827. 
Type LocaLity: ‘Habitat in Carolina, Providentia, Bahama.”’ 
RanGe: Florida to New Mexico and Arizona, and throughout the tropics. 
New Mexico: Bishops Cap (Wooton). Dry hills. 
7. ABUTILON Gaertn. INDIAN MALLOW. 
Erect or decumbent, stout or slender, densely pubescent, herbaceous perennials, 
with simple cordate leaves and axillary flowers; calyx not bracteate; corolla red or 
yellow; carpels 5 to 10, leathery, beaked or rounded, dehiscent, 2 to several-seeded, 
6 mm. high or more. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Carpels short-beaked or at least acute; stems slender, prostrate or 
ascending. ...... 2... 2-22. eee eee eee eee eee eee eee e eee 1. A. parvulum. 
Carpels rounded at the apex; stems stout and erect. 
Leaves not lobed, as broad as long; sepals 8 mm. long........... 2. A. malacum. 
Leaves more or less 3-lobed, longer than broad; sepals not more 
than 5 mm. long............ 2.02. ee ee 3. A. texense. 
