132 ; STERCULIACES. 
13. Melochia tenella, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1858, i. p. 212 (sub 
fiedleia). Muxico (Jurgensen, 506). 
14, Melochia tomentella, Presl, Reliq. Henk. ii. p. 148 (sub Riedleia). 
SourH Mzxico, Acapulco (Henke). | 
15. Melochia tomentosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 932. 
Nortu Mexico, Sonora Alta (Coulter, 797); Sour Mexico, Acapulco (Barclay), 
Oaxaca (Andries, 506), Jalapa (Galeotti)—Nearly all over Tropical Soura AMERICA 
and the West Inpizs. Hb. Kew. 
16. Melochia, sp. (affinis Uv. concinne, Miq.). 
Panama, Empire railway-station (8. Hayes). Hb. Kew. 
11. WALTHERIA. 
Waltheria, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 827; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 224. 
Herbs, shrubs, or rarely arboreous. About sixteen species, of which one is very 
widely dispersed in tropical and subtropical countries, two are African, two are natives 
of Oceania, and the rest American. 
1. Waltheria americana, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 941. 
Waltheria indica, Linn. Cav. Diss. vi. t. 170. 
Found in nearly all the Tropica and SuBTROPICAL REGIONS throughout the world, 
and common from Panama to Nort Mexico. 
2. Waltheria brevipes, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1858, i. p. 213, 
SoutH Mexico, San Pedro Nolasco &c. (Jurgensen, 121, in part). 
3. Waltheria detonsa, A. Gray, Pl. Wright, ii. p. 24. 
Norta Mexico, Magdalena, Sonora (Thurber), rocky hills on the Sonoita, near 
Rancho Desierto (Wright). 
4, Waltheria glomerata, Presl, Relig. Henk. ii. p. 152. 
SourH Mexico, Guichilona, between Tehuantepec and the river Guazacualco (Andrieuz, 
010); Panama (Henke, Seemann, S. Hayes). Hb. Kew. 
5. Waltheria hirsuta, Presl, Relig. Heenk. ii. p. 152. 
Sour Mexico, west side (Hanke). 
6. Waltheria preslii, Walp. Rep. i. p. 340. 
Waltheria rotundifolia, Presl, nec Zuce. 
SourH Mexico, Acapulco (Henke), Oaxaca (Galeotti, 4093). Hb. Kew. 
