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Palavia rhombifolia. Rhomb-leaved 

 Palavia. 



Class and Order. 



MoNADELPHIA PoLVANDRIA. 



( Nat. Ord.— Malvaceae. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cat. nudus, 5 -fid us. Carpella plurima monosperma in 

 capitulum absque ordine aggregata. De Cand. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Palavia * rhombifolia ; foliis rhomboideis lobato-crenatis 

 ad venas sparsim stellato- pilosis pedunculo brevio- 

 ribus, stipulis subulatis ciliatis viridibus, petalis obo- 

 vato - cuneatis oblique emarginatis, caule prostrato 

 ramoso parce stellato-piloso. 



Palavia rhombifolia. Graham, in Edin. Phil. Journ. Sept. 

 1830. 



Descr. Annual? Stem prostrate, branched, sprinkled 

 very loosely with rather rigid hairs, which are single or 

 stellate. Leaves an inch and three quarters long, one and 

 a half broad, alternate, petioled, soft, bright green above, 

 paler below, rhomboid, glabrous, sublobate, or deeply 

 and unequally crenate, nearly entire at the base, five-nerved, 

 veined, the nerves and veins prominent below, channelled 

 above, and both above and below, but especially on the 

 latter surface, loosely sprinkled with hairs, similar to those 

 on the stem. Petioles one inch long, rather shorter than 

 the leaves, having a shallow groove along their upper 



surface, 



* Named in compliment to Antonio Palau y Verdera, a Professor of 

 Botany at Madrid. 



