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( 1998 ) 
MaLva AMa@eNA. LiIVELY-FLOWERED CaPE 
‘MALLOw. | 
JHE Hee BH: 
Class and Order. 
Monapevpaia PonyAnpria. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. duplex; exterior 3-phyllus. Caps. plurime, 1-sperme. - 
Specific Character and Synonym. : 
Matva amena ; foliis quinquelobatis pilosis rugosis, pedun- 
culis axillaribus aggregatis foliis brevioribus, calycibus 
externis ovatis acuminatis. . 
Matva amena ; foliis planis lobatis pilosis, pilis stellatis, lobis 
divaricatis, crenis obtusis, pedunculis axillaribus subum- 
bellatis, petalis obcordatis. Soland. Mscr. apud Banks. 
Generally considered as one of the varieties of Manva ca- 
pensis, from which it differs more especially in having pedun- 
cles much shorter than the leaf, which grow two or three or 
more together from the same axilla, and in the outer calyx 
being much wider ; the flowers are likewise larger, and of a 
more brilliant colour. From comparing it with a native spe- 
cimen from the Cape, in the Banksian herbarium, supposed to 
be of the same species, it appears by cultivation to lose great 
part of its pubescence. Our plant agrees in every respect, as 
far as we can discover by a careful examination of the speci- 
men preserved in the same collection, with the one cultivated 
at Kew, from which plant the species was taken up by Dr, 
Soranper, but for some reason was not inserted in Arron’s 
Hortus Kewensis. . 3 
A Greenhouse shrub ; native of the Cape of Good Hope; 
flowers in April and May; propagated by cuttings. Commu- 
nicated by Mr. Wa. Anperson, curator of the Apothecary’s 
Botanical Garden at Chelsea. 
