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the two basal, the basal sinus broadly V-shaped : lobes of the 

 involucre broadly ovate, very obtuse, those of the calyx also 

 short, triangular, acute, these dotted with prominent stellate- 

 hairy tufts rising out of the fine and short stellate tomentum : 

 corollas deep rose-purple, abruptly reflexed from the base or 

 near it soon after first expansion : carpels large, forming a 

 whorl more than M inch across, of a dull straw-color or 

 brownish, each carpel wing-angled on both sides, the sides 

 striate from point of juncture with the axis outward to near 

 the margin. 



This fine species is known only as collected by myself on 

 the island of San Miguel, California, twenty-five years since. 

 My observations on the plant at the time found record in the 

 first volume of Pittonia (vol. i, p. 77), where I reluctantly 

 referred it to Lavatera assurgentiflora Kell. In the course of 

 the first real examination of the fruits of these things, I dis- 

 cover unexpected specific characters calling for a segregation 

 of the material that has passed for L. assurgentiflora^ and 

 this is the first of the segregates. 



S. SUSPENSA. Branches more slender, and both foliage and 

 flowers notably smaller than in other species : largest leaves iV^ 

 inches long, but 3 in breadth, not very unequally 5-lobed to 

 the middle, the lobes unequally and coarsely short-toothed, 

 puberulent along the veins, otherwise glabrous, petioles 

 slender, 3>^ inches long: flower XVo. inches long, corolla of 

 the same width at the orifice, the petals apparently never 

 reflexed, deep pink, or perhaps rose-red, the whole flower 

 pendulous on a pedicel nearly 2 inches long, though abruptly 

 turned upwards from the point of the articulation : segments 

 of involucre subtrigonous-oval, obtuse ; teeth of calyx of less 

 than one-third the length of the tube, acutely triangular at 

 flowering, in the fruiting state grown to thrice their former 

 size, obtuse, erect over the fruit, or nearly so, or slightly 

 spreading away from it ; fruit less than V^ inch wide, the 

 carpels smooth on the back, rather obtusely angled at the 



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