Tah. 7865. 

 LAVATERA aceetfolta. 



Native of the Canary Islands. 



Nat, Ord. MALVACEiE. — Tribe Malve^. 

 Genus Layateba, Linn. ; {Benfh. Sc Hoolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 200.) 



Lavatera (Olbia) acerifolia ; frntex multicaulia 4-8-pedali8 foliis longe 

 petiolatis rotandatis 2-3 poll, latia 5- v, sub 7-lobi8 basi profunde cordatia 

 sinu angnsto lobis late ovatis obtnsia v. subacutia erenato-dentatis 

 Bupra glabresceutibua subtus Btellato-tomentellis, stipulia setaceia, 

 petiolo ^-2 poll, longo, floribus axillaribua solitariis v. rariua binis, 

 pedicellis 1-1^ poll, longia gracilibus basi minute bibracteolatia infra 

 florem articulatis, floribua 2-3 poll, diam., involucelli 5-lobi tomentelli 

 lobis late ovatia acatis calyce brevioribus, calycia tomentelli Jobis 

 late ovatis acntis, petalis late spathulatim obovatis orbicularibuave 

 retusis pallide lilacinia v. roseis basi sanguineis, staminum tubo pubea- 

 cente, ovarii carpellia 12-15 orbicularibua stylo gracili stigmatibua fili- 

 formibus, capsula orbiculari complaaata, coccia 12-16 orbiculari-oblongia 

 ^ poll, longis margine acutis glabris chartaceia, columella in conum 

 profunde sulcatum expansa. 



L. acerifolia, Gav. in Anal. Cienc. Nat. vol. vi. (1803) p. 339; Eleneh. Hort. 

 Madrit. p. 20. Brouss. JElench. Hort. Monsp. p. 84. Lois. Herb. Amat. 

 vol. V. t. 322. DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 438 ; Cat. Hort. Monsp. p. 131 

 (Ic. 56 ined.). 



L. ph(Bnicea, WiJld. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl, p. 49 (non Vent.). 



Savihiona acerifolia, Wedd et Berth. Phytogr. Canar. vol. i. p. 31, t. 2 B. 



Lavatera acerifolia is a native of moist places in the 

 sylvan region of the Canary Islands, where it was first 

 collected by Broussonet. There are specimens in the 

 Kew Herbarium from the Grand Canary, Teneriffe, and 

 Gomera. It was raised to generic rank by Webb and 

 Berthelot, on quite insufficient grounds, under the name 

 of Saviniona, in honour of Dr. Savinion, a physician of 

 eminence in the Archipelago. The specimen figured was 

 from a plant introduced from the Canaries into the 

 Botanical Gardens of Cambridge by Walter Gardiner, Esq., 

 F.R.S., Fellow and Bursar of Clare College, communicated 

 by Mr. Lynch, A.L.S., in July of the present year. 



Bescr. — A shrub four to eight feet high, branching from 

 the base ; branches, leaves beneath, involucel and calyx 

 stellately tomentose. Leaves orbicular, two or three inches 

 in diameter, five- or almost seven-lobed, deeply cordate, 



KOVEIIBJEK IST, 1902. 



