Malvastrum.] MALVACEH (Harv.) 159 
2. A. Burchellii (DC. Prod. 3. A 438); “stem erect, hairy ; leaves cor- 
date, somewhat 5-lobed, coarsely toothed, velvetty; pedicels axillary, one- 
flowered, hairy, scarcely shorter than the petiole ; involucel 5-cleft. * DO. 
Urena pilosa, Burch. Cat.2557. — 
Has. South Africa, Burchell. (Unknown to us.) 
The plant distributed by Z. ¢ Z., under this name is an undoubted Pavonia (P. 
mollis, E. Mey.) 
Il MALVA, Linn. — 
Involucel 3-leaved, persistent. Staminal-column bearing anthers at 
the multifid summit. Ovary of many carpels, whorled round a central 
torus ; styles as many as the carpels, stigmatose along their inner face. 
Fruit of many dry, one-seeded, hard-shelled, pointless, indehiscent 
carpels, separating at maturity from the axis ; seed filling up the cavity. 
Endl. Gen. 5271. DC. Prod. t. p. 430. Gray, Gen. Vou. %: p. 49. t. 116. 
Herbs, natives of the temperate parts of the old world, with roundish or lobed, 
palmate-nerved leaves, and axillary, purple or rosy flowers. Several are weeds in . 
cultivated ground, ‘‘mallows by the hedges,” and as such~are dispersed over the 
globe. All have emollient and mucilaginous properties. The name is an old one 
derived from padakn, soft. : 
1. M. parviflora (Linn.) ; procumbent or prostrate ; leaves on long 
petioles, reniform, obtusely 5-7 lobed, crenate; flowers ‘clustered i in the 
axils, subsessile, the petals scarcely longer than the calyx ; carpels 10- 
3a, sub-glabrous, cancellated or netted, the margins raised, sharp, and 
denticulate. DO. Prod. t. p. 433. ‘iM. rotundifolia, E. § Z.! (non L.); 
-s microcarpa, Bd Z.1 298, and M. flexuosa, E. & Z.! 299. M. pusilla, 
Bot. ¢, 241. - 
Has. Roadsides and waste places; a weed, introduced from Europe. (Herb. 9..!> A ee OF (2, 
Hook., Sond.). Q LY 
Flowers pale flesh colour, small. All the Cape specimens I have seen have the oe) 63 
transversely ribbed and furrowed carpels and sharp ridges, characteristic of M. par- 
viflora. The pubescence and size of leaves vary much. % 
Ill. MALVASTRUM. A. Gray. 
Involucel 3-leaved (sometimes wanting). Styles as many as the car- 
pels ; the stigmata terminal capitellate. Other characters the same as in 
Mazva, A. Gray, Gen. 2. p. 59. t. 121, 122. © 
Herbs or small shrubs, with alternate, ox ‘sg one. payed 
or racemose flowers, which in the Cape species are purple, rose-red, or red and 
The genus us comprises many American species with orange or flame-coloured rams 4 
natives chiefly of the warmer temperate zones, north and south. It is known o— 
Malwa by he capitellate stigmas, and cine gles sub-dehiscent carpels, 
ahi Caio tyetits We ee ee va. Sy se Silks Ws ieeepesbiing. 
and I fear that some of those adopted may not prove permanently distinct; and 
ogee in some cases, I have mistaken the plants intended by previous authors. 
materials in the Herbaria at my command are scanty and unsatisfactory. The 
generic name is an alteration from Malva, 
a 1, Fruticosa. Virgate Shrubs, evidently ligneous. (Sp. 9) 
: M. fragrans (“ray and Harv.); frutescent, virgate ; the branche: 
pt 
minutely glandularly pubescent and thinly 
