hairs. Flowers large, rose-coloured, sweet-scented : petals 

 cuneiform, deeply emarginate or iobed; lobes crenulate 

 on the inner sides. External calycine leaflets three, ovate, 

 ciliate ; internal ones 5-cleft : segments delta-shaped. An- 

 thers very many, white. Stigmas many, purple. Capsules 

 many, surrounding a conical receptacle, smooth, dilated at 

 the base : seeds kidney -shaped. 



Malva Alcea was supposed by Hudson to have been in- 

 digenous to this country ; but this has probably arisen from 

 its having been confounded with some variety of Malva 

 moschata, and it is not now admitted into the British 

 Flora. 



A hardy perennial. Native of Germany and France. 

 Flowers from July to October. Our drawing was taken 

 from a plant raised at the Fulham Nursery, from seeds 

 gathered in the Carpathian mountains by Mr. Howe. 



