MALVACEAE 853 
rather finely oo or crenate; flower- o dien ana oe 
calyx-lobes with setaceous tips as long as the pi petals 11-16 mm 
long, bright-yellow, phe without and ciliata: earpels: about ree m. lo ong: 
seed much longer than wide.—Was Vip roadsides, and pinelands, S pen. 
—(W. I., Mez., C. A., S. 4.) AT year 
9. URENA [Dil.] L. Shrubs or partly woody herbs. Leaf-blades 
angled or lobed. Involucel present. Sepals 5, united below, and often par- 
tially adnate to the bractlets. Petals 5, 
- purpli Car 
arely more, l-celled, indehiscent, usually 
bristly with barbed spines.—Three species, 
tropical. 
1. U. lobata L. Stem mostly 1-2 m. tall, 
entose: leaf-blades suborbieular to oval, 
wly d u 
shallowly lob n errulate: bractlets 
inear-lanceolate, . long: bout 
as as the involucel: petals pink or rose, 
about 2 em. long rpels 4— - 
eter.—Hammocks, waste-olaces, and road- 
mae wi Nat. of E. L—(W. I., Mex., C. 
A., 4.) —The bark yields a fiber ; the 
de are used medicinal ally. 
0. PAVONIA Cav. Shrubs or woody her Leaf-blades angled or 
TT Involueel present. Sepals 5, partially d Petals 5, often showy. 
Carpels 5, 1-celled, spine-armed.—About 60 species, mostly tropical 
Carpels 3-awned, the awns barbed: leaf-blades of an ovate type: da a lanceo- 
late to ovate- lanceolate. 1. pinifea. 
Carpels awnless and pointless : leaf-blades of a hastate type: calyx- 
lobes broadly ovate. 2. P. hastata. - 
1. P. spinifex (L.) Cav. opel us m. tall, hirsute and strigillose: leaf-blades 
ovate to elliptic-ovate, 5—10 ong: bractlets linear to lanceolate: calyx- 
lobes lanceolate to ovate- Taine: tals " 
yellow, 2.5 em. ong: mature carpels 56 
mm. long, the spines slender-subulate.— 
Sandy woods, hammocks, and shell-mounds, 
: Spr.-sum. 
i d EE sagen an introduction. How- 
er, in t years it has | been found in 
the wi ildest pese of the interior. 
2. P. hastata Cav. Plant 9-20 dm. tall, 
dr ar pq. leaf- blades of a hasta te 
t 2-5 . long: bractlets ovate to ob- 
tea _ mm. long: petals 2 mm. long, 
mainly pale red: carpels 4 mm. long. [P. 
LeContei T. & G.]—Sandy soil, Coastal Plain, Ga. Nai. of S. A.—(W. I.)— 
Spr.—fall. 
11. MALACHE B. Vogel Shrubs or partly woody plants. Leaf-blades 
broad, remotely serrate or repand, 3-ribbed. Involucel of 6-8 bractlets or more. 
