166 MALVACE ( Harv.) [Spharoma. 
calyx lobes, and carpels glabrous. Flowers deep purple. Though having many 
, as in S. 5 SO a the general aspect is very different. It was found 
between Driekoppen and Bloedrivier, 2500-3000 f., in April. 
V. SPHEROMA, Harv. (non DC., nec Schl.). 
Involucel monophyllous, persistent, 3-cleft. Other characters as in 
Spheeralcea. (Lavatere Sp. DC. et auct.) 
Suffruticose, or shrubby S. African plants. Leaves alternate, entire or lobed, 
toothed, canescent below, stellato-tomentose. Peduncles axillary, 1-2-flowered, 
jointed. Flowers rosy purple. The plants referred here differ from Lavatera, m 
which they have been generally placed, in having capitellate stigmata and 2-3 ovuled 
carpels. ‘From Sphwralcea, to which they are much more nearly allied, they differ 
in habit and in the monophyllous involucre ; a character the same as that which sepa- 
rates Lavatera from Malva, I employ the rejected name Sphaeroma (from opaipa, 
a globe,) once given to the genus now called Spheralcea. 
1. §. Julii (Harv.); erect; branches tomentose, and hispid with 
scattered, stellate hairs; leaves on long petioles, 5-lobed, the middle lobe 
longest, unequally crenate, scabrous on the upper, tomentose, stellato- 
pubescent and canescent on the lower surface ; peduncles from the axils 
of the upper leaves, 2-3-flowered, densely stellato-pubescent, as are 
also the calyx and the deeply and sharply cleft involucel. Lavatera Jult, 
Burch. Cat. 2664. DC. Prod. t. p. 438. LL. biflora, E, Mey.! 
Has. Banks of Orange River, Drege, Zeyher / Caledon River, Burke! (Herb. 
T.C.D., Hook., Sond.) gi : 
A tall, coarse growing, half-woody pian, all the younger parts densely tomentose 
and hispid ; the stems and u of the leaves afterwards becoming nearly 
_ naked. Flowers purple, 1-11 inches across. Involucel very deeply parted, but its 
leaflets are confluent at base, 
2. 8. prostrata (Harv.); diffuse or “prostrate” Drege); branches 
stblinkd-Sousanteee il it-aisteome: an at aes petioles, ob- 
long, obtusely 3-lobed, the middle lobe much the longest, the lateral short 
or obsolete, crenate, pubescent on the upper, stellato-tomentose, and 
canescent on the lower surface; peduncles from the axils of the upper 
leaves, stellato-pubescent, as are the calyx and the obtusely trifid mvo- 
_tucel. Lavatera prostrata, E. Mey.! = 
rostrate, which we should hardly haye guessed from the specimens 
A hao ihe lt imperfectly lobulate at base. Flowers ge 
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isles even ace amallee n var 6. the pubescence is 
ye apa tS 
inal column antheriferous at its multifid summit. 
united in a circle ound a central torus, one- 
~15; stigmata capitellate. Fruit of 
summit and at length sepa- 
pended. nd. Gen. 5289. 
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