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MaAnva Creeana. Snowy RED-FLOWERED 
MAaLLow. 
Class and Order. 
MonapetpeHia PoLyANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Matvacea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx cinctus involucro rIphy o> rarius 5—6-phyllo, 
bracteolis oblongis setaceisve. Carpella capsularia, plu- 
rima in orbem disposita. D C. | 
Specific Name and Character. 
Matva Creeana ; fruticosa, ramis suberectis, foliis trilobatis 
incisis subundulatis deltoideo-ovatis stellato-hispidis 
basi integerrimis, floribus solitariis axillaribus, petalis _ 
obcordatis subcrenatis, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus, 
involucri foliolis filiformibus. 
Matva Creeana. _ Hort. 
This, though a small flowered, is an extremely pretty 
species of Mallow, and very deserving of cultivation in the 
Greenhouse, where it flowers freely in June and July. 
We received it at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in 1837, 
from Mr. Pince, Nurseryman, Exeter ; but 1 know nothing 
of its history or of the country from whence it was imported. 
In the arrangement of the species, it seems to me, that it 
should be placed near to Maxva divaricata. 
Descr. Stem shrubby, branched ; branches erect, closely 
covered with harsh stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate ; peti- 
oles somewhat flattened above, covered like the stem with 
similar hairs; lamina rather longer than the petiole, del- 
toideo-ovate, blunt, somewhat undulate, green and sparsely 
covered with stellate pubescence above, white and more 
closely covered with similar pubescence below, the upper 
leaves 
