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Pavonia ScHRANKII.  ScHRANK’S PAvVoniA. 
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Class and Order. 
Monapetrut1A PoLyANpRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Matvacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx cinctus involucello 5—15-phyllo. Stigmata 10. 
Carpella capsularis, 5-valvis, monosperma. D C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Pavon1a* Schrank; inermis, “ foliis subcordato-ovatis acu- 
minatis, inequaliter serratis utrinque stellato-tomen- 
tosis, pedunculis I-floris, involucris calyce brevioribus 
5-partitis, carpellis inermibus. 
Pavonia Schrankii. Sprengel, Syst. Veget. 3. 98. 
Legreronta coccinea. Schrank. Pl. Rar. H. Mon. t. 90. 
De Cand. Prodr. 1. 446. 
We received this plant from the Botanic Garden Berlin, 
in 1836. It flowered freely in the stove at the Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, in July, 1837 ; but though its blos- 
soms are of considerable size, and not destitute of beauty, 
the plant will probably never be a favourite in cultivation, 
because its flowers are only expanded during the forenoon, 
and the shrub is coarse and in no degree attractive. It is 
a native of Brazil. 
SpRENGEL unites Lesretonsa with Pavonra, and De Cay- 
DOLLE questions the propriety of considering them distinct. 
The only part of the definition which seems to me to jus- 
tify the separation, is the reported dehiscence of the carpels, 
which I have not found to take place. 
Descr. 
* So named in compliment to Don JosEF Pavon, the companion of 
MBEY in Peru, and, in conjunction with Rutz, the author of the valuable 
“ Flore Peruyiana.” 
