160 . MALVACE# (Harv.) [Malvastrum. 
with long, patent hairs ; leaves cordate at base, 5-7-lobed, the lobes short, 
obtuse, swb-equal, or the middle one longest, crenate ; stipules ovate, 
small ; peduncles one-flowered, axillary, longer than the petiole ; invo- 
lucral leaves lanceolate, shorter than the acuminate, villoso-ciliate calyx 
lobes ; carpels glabrous, corrugated. Malva fragrans, Jacg. Hort. Vind. 
3.t. 33. DC. Prod. 1. p. 434. (non E. & Z. nec Bot. Reg.) Cav. Diss. t. 
33.7. % 
Has. Cape of Good Hope, Cavanilles, Dr. Pappe/ (Herb. Hook.). 
Stem 6 feet high, or more, shrubby below, herbaceous above ; the whole plant 
slightly viscid, with a balsamic odour. Leaves on long petioles, 3 inches long and 
ee broad, the lower ones distinctly 5-lobed, the upper 3-lobed or 3-5-angled. The 
garden specimens (Hort. Kew! Hort. Monsp.!) are minutely glandular, with a few 
scattered hairs, in other respects glabrous; a wild one from Dr. Pappe is meee 
velvetty. Whether it be a species, or merely a luxuriant state of Mf. capense, B, 
cannot determine. The leaves are very much larger and less toothed than in other 
Cape species. Flowers purple. 
2. M. Capense (Gray and Harv.); shrubby, virgate, slightly vised, 
minutely downy or glandularly pubescent, rarely glabrescent, the younger 
parts villous; leaves ovate-oblong, somewhat 3-lobed and angled, the 
middle lobe longest, the lateral roundish or obsolete, unequally toothed; 
‘stipules short, patent ; peduncles axillary, 1-2-flowered, with pedicels 
longer than the petioles ; invol. leaflets lanceolate or ovato-lanceolate, 
shorter than the ovate-acuminate, ciliated ealyx lobes. Thunb. Cap. p- 
‘Var. a. glabrescens ; puberulous or glabiel ent, the glandular hairs 
= M. Capensis, Cav, Dis. t. 24. f. 3. "DC. Prod. 1.p.434 B.& 
280, 
_ Var 8. balsamicum; glandular hairs copious and much longer than 
in vara, M. balsamica, Jacq. DO. l.c.. M.fragrans, Bot. Mag. (non 
Jacq.) #. & 2,281. Drege, 7317, 7319. 
Has. Near the Z River, Oliphant’s Hoek, and Boschesman’s River, 
Ui , and near Grahams 
town, Albany, £. é Z./ and others. Simon’s Bay, 
C. Wright? (Herb. 'T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) = 
A tall, slender bush, 3~4 feet high, somewhat clammy to the touch, with a strong 
balsamic scent. Flowers purple. involucral leaves vary much in size. Carpels 
: glabrous, slightly corrugated, 
M. calycinum (Gray & Harv.); shrubby, virgate, downy or tomen- 
tose with short stellate hairs, the soe aan. are ; leaves cordate or 
‘te, somewhat. 3-lobed, crenate or toothed, 3—-5-nerved ; stipules ovate, 
flowers axillary or in axillary pseudo-racemes, pedicels longet 
oles ; invol. leaflets broadly ovate, acute, nearly as long a8 
nate, tomentose and ciliated calyx lobes. Malva caly- 
0. Cav, Diss. t. 22. f. 4. DC. Prod. 1. p. 434: 
