= 
162 MALVACE® (Harv.) [Malvastrum. 
low, the margin crenato-dentate, the middle lobe longest ; stipules linear- 
subulate ; peduncles 2—4-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; involucral 
leaflets narrow-linear, shorter than the deltoid-acuminate, very woolly 
calyx lobes ; carpels covered with starry scales. Malva bryonifolia, 
Linn }—fide E. & Z. 285 | 
—- Oliphant’s river’s Bad, Clanw., Ecklon! Namaqualand, Zeyher / (Herb. 
ma. 
A Gooks shrub, much more tomentose than any other Cape species ; the whole 
ar pale, through the abundance of yellowish, densely crowded, stellate, but not 
hairs. Stipules longer and narrower than in most. Flower-stalks short, 
corymbose. According to E. & Z. this is M. plicata, Thunb. 
8. M. virgatum (Gray & Harv.) ; thinly stellato-pubescent and vil- 
lous, or swb-glabrous, shrubby ; leaves (small) on short petioles, oblong 
or broadly linear, tapering to the base, simple or trifid, sharply serrate, 
midribbed, nearly glabrous ; stipules lanceolate ; pedicels axillary, one- 
flowered; involucel below the base of the calyx, its leaflets narrow- 
lanceolate ; calyx segments deltoid-acuminate, thinly stellate, and 
fringed with woolly hairs; carpels glabrous. JMalva virgata, Cav. Ic. t. 
18. f. 2. and t.24.f1.non E. & Z. DC. Prod. 1. p. 434. 
_. Var. a. Dilleniana; leaves more or less 3-lobed. JM. Dilleniana, 
E. & Z.282. 
_ Var. 8. angustifolia; more glabrous, with narrow-cuneate leaves. 
Vane 7.4 oblongif d at b 
AR. y.1 0 ifolia ; leaves oblong, scarcely narrowed at base. 
en 7348, 6} = : 
. Mountain-sides, at the kloof, , E.& Z.1 Oliphant’s River, Dr. 
Gill, 8. Africa, aay (Herb. gaa oy ale 
A slender, virgate, nearly glabrous shrub, with a few stellate hairs on the leaves 
and calyx. Leaves 3—1 inch long, 4-1 inch wide, sometimes deeply 3-lobed. In- 
volucre sometimes remote. Drege’s 7318 b, in Herb. Hook. seems certainly ee 
this species, but 7318, a, in Herb. Sond., looks different. M, virgata, B. & Z.! is _ 
4M. albens, readily known by its glabrous staminal column. 
9. M. tridactylites (Gray & Harv.) ; somewhat viscid, glabrous or 
downy ; leaves obovate-cuneate, tapering very much to the base, subsessile, 
3-toothed or trifid or tripartite, the segments patent, toothed ; stipules 
_ ovate, erect ; peduncles axillary, r~2-flowered, slender ; invol, leafilets 
oe linear or lanceolate, much shorter than the deltoid calyx lobes ; carpels 
ed, glabrous, rugulose. Malva tridactylites, DC. Prod, 1. 434- 
oe Thunb. ! Cap. 551; also M. oxyacanthoides, Hornm. 
a. glabra ; glabrous and viscid. aM. stricta, E. § Z 283! non 
a; minutely downy, the calyx stellate-hairy. Z. $ 
ine ‘ia ee tora — sender sides of leaves, thinly stellato- 
ao ke. (xb. ‘ook., Sond., TOD)” : od Oe Pee wena’. $ 2-/ 
pies once ant of the Kar Fah eae nea it ,Pobsccence; se miny be ex- 
