Tab. 5852. 



MALOPE MALACOIDES. 

 Barbary Bastard Mallow. 



Nat. Ord. Malvaceae. — Monadelphia Polyandeia. 



Gen. Char. — Bracteolce 3, distinctse. Calyx 5-fidus. Columna staminea 

 usque ad apicem in filamenta oo divisa. Ovarii loculi oo, 1-ovulati ; styli 

 rami totidem, filiformes, intus longitudinaliter stigmatosi. Carpella matura 

 distincta, supra receptaculum globosum irregulariter capitato-congesta, 

 indehiscentia, a receptaculo secedentia. Semen adscendens. — Herbae 

 regionis mediterranece incolce, annuce v. biennes, glabrae v. pilosce. Folia Integra 

 v. S-Jida. Flores pedunculati, smpius speciosi, violacei v. rosei. Bracteolae 

 ample cordatce. 



Malope malacoides ; pilosa, caule prostrate, ramus adscendentibus, foliis petio- 

 latis elliptico-oblongis ovatisve subacutis v. obtusis basi cuneatis v. 

 subcordatis crenulatis sinuatis v. subpinnatifidis glabris, petiolo pilosulo, 

 stipulis lineari-oblougis, pedunculis axillaribus 1-floris, floribus amplis. 



Malope malacoides, Willd. Sp. PL v. iii. p. 799. — Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. II. 

 v. iv. p. 121. — Cavanill. Diss. ii. p. 84, t. 27, f. 1. — Reich. Fl. Germ. 

 v. v. t. 165.— DC. Prod. v. i. p. 429. 



It is remarkable that so very elegant a plant as this, and 

 one introduced into England as long ago as 1710, should 

 never yet have been figured in any English work, and indeed 

 almost fallen out of cultivation. It is a native of the South of 

 France, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, and of Morocco 

 in North-west Africa. From the latter country we received 

 seeds from our active and liberal correspondent, Mr. Maw, 

 who collected them in a botanical excursion to Spain and 

 Tetuan in 1869, which resulted in the introduction into 

 Europe of many charming hardy plants, including Linaria 

 tristis (Tab. 5827), and Cotyledon Salzmanni (Tab. 580J ). The 



AUGUST 1st, 1870. 



