848 MALVACEAE 
11-12 mm. long.—(INDIAN-MALLOW. em hammocks cult. grounds, and 
roadsides, pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(W. I.)—All yea 
. GAYOIDES Small. Herbs, sometimes vine-like. Leaf-blades com- 
mois toothed. Involucel wanting. Pd 5, united below. Petals 5, usually 
yellow. Carpels numerous, beakless at m 
turity.—One species. 
G. crispum (L.) 
branehes 3-9 dm. long: CUBE ovate, 
5 em. long, mostly acute or rather 
ealyx-lobes rather abruptly poin a id 
ee l led at th mmit.—Pinelands, 
mmocks, waste- D ud cult. grounds, 
inces, Tex. to Ariz.— . L, d. 
S. A.)—All —G ber T 
) has merely velvety desea pe 
It seems othe to be the s 
s G. cris- 
pum and occupies the same ea sien 
3. MODIOLA Moeneh. Herbs. Leaf-blades palmately lobed or divided. 
Involucel present. Sepals 5, united below.  Petals 5, entire. Carpels many, 
transversely 2-celled, beaked at maturity, ih 
faees smooth or merely wrinkled.—One spe- 
1 
1. M. caroliniana (L.) G. Don. Branches 
d ais or eee 1-7 dm. long: leaf- 
ades em 
grounds, waste e-places, and roads ides, o 
Plain and O a J. Po s, Fla. 
Tex. and Va.—(W. I., ec: c 
Sum.—The petals are Caner orange. 
4. MALVASTRUM A. Gray. Herbs or partly woody plants. Leaf- 
blades entire, lobed, or parted. Involucel of distinct bractlets, or wanting. 
Sepals 5, partially united. Petals 5, variously colored. Carpels 5 or aa 
1-celled, m or beakless.—About 75 sepecies, American and Afric 
FALSE-MALLOW 
Plant a n : 1. M. angustum. 
Plant Seren ial: 
Flowers EUM. in the axils or in terminal inter- 
rupte M spikes or spikelike racemes: 
stri igos 
Mature a beakless, sometimes with a mere 
protuberance behind the apex. 2. M. corchorifolium. 
Mature carpels with a subulate beak behind the 
apex. 3. M. coromandelianum. 
Flowers in congested terminal and axillary spikes: 
stem hirsute. 4. M. spicatum. 
