Ppuple. 
Malvastrum. | MALVACE& (Harv.) 163 
readily known from other Cape species by its deeply cut and wedge-shaped leaves. 
The rosy purple flowers are on short or long stalks. Staminal column very hairy. 
Group 2. Surrruticosa : spreading or decumbent, half-herbaceous’ 
species. (Sp. 10-5). | 
10. M. setosum (Harv.) ; suffrutescent ; stems, peduncles, leaves and 
calyces setose, with long, simple or tufted hairs ; leaves obovate-cuneate, 
tapering to the base, deeply 3-lobed, the lobes inciso-dentate ; stipules 
oblong, falcate, spreading; peduncles axillary, 1-2 flowered ; invol. 
leaves linear, shorter than the deltoid-acuminate calyx-lobes ; carpels 
glabrous, somewhat rugulose. Malva 7321, Drege! 
Has. Piquetberg, near Groenekloof, under tooof. Drege / (Herb. Hook., Sond.) 
Herbaceous, scarcely at all woody, remarkably hispid, with horizontally patent, 
yellowish hairs. The leaves resemble in form those of M. tridactylites ; the sti- 
pules are longer, narrower and curved, and the calyx-lobes much more taper 
pointed than in that species. Flowers rosy purple ; staminal column very hairy. 
11. M. albens (Harv.); sub-herbaceous ; stems and petioles strigose, 
with appressed, stellate hairs; leaves cuneate at base, ovate, deeply 
3-lobed, the lobes obtuse, inciso-serrate near the point, with scattered 
simple hairs on the upper, and stellate hairs on the lower surface ; 
stipules oblong, subfaleate ; peduncles axillary, 1-3 flowered; invol. 
leaflets linear, obtuse, shorter than the ovate-acuminate, stellato-stri- 
gose calyx lobes ; staminal-column quite glabrous ; carpels wrinkled, 
glabrous. Malva albens, and M. grossulariefolia, L. Mey.! Herb. Drege. 
M. virgata, E. § Z.!! 291! non DC. 
Has. Zwartland, Dr. Pappe/ Riebeckskasteel, on hills under 1000f., and at 
Groenekloof, Sept.-Nov. Drege / (Herb. Hook., Sond., T.C.D.) 
Stems scarcely branched, speading or decumbent, covered, but not thickly, with 
close pressed, stiff, stellate hairs. Leaves sub-distant, 1 inch long and broad. 
Flower stalks short, 1-2 together ; flowers flesh coloured.—Known from allied 
species by the glabrous staminal column. ee 
12. M. divaricatam (Gray & Harv.); suffruticose, divaricately 
branched, thinly stellato-pubescent; leaves petiolate, obtuse at base, 
plaited, deeply 3-lobed, the lobes cuneate, inciso-crenate, stellato-pubes- 
cent especially on the lower surface, the ribs prominent below ; stipules 
ovate or oblong, acute; pedicels axillary, one-flowered ; invol. leaflets 
narrow-linear or spathulate, shorter than the taper-pointed calyx-lobes ; 
carpels densely setoso-pubescent, rugulose. Malva divaricata, Andr. Rep. 
t. 182. DC. Prod. 1. p. 434. H. & Z. 293, non Drege ; also M. oxy- 
acanthoides E.& Z.! 291, non Hornm. M. microphylla, E. Mey! 
Has. In the great Karroo, near Gauritz River, George ; and between Zwarte- 
ruggens and Graaf Reynet, #.d Z./ Uitglugt and Nieweveld, Drege/ (Herb. 
Sond.) . 
Slightly ligneous at base, herbaceous upwards. Leaves } inch or somewhat 
more in length, the upper surface sometimes glabrous or nearly so. M. microphylla, — ee 
Drege ! seems to be a very stunted form, more glabrous than usual, with subsessile 
flowers. Flowers either white, with a purple spot on each petal, or suffused rosy- 
18. M. racemosum (Harv.); sub-herbaceous : ae seen: “a 
both surfaces of the leaves, strigose with appressed, stellate, ee 
