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have seen other scraps of Abutila from Caffirland which look different from either 
form, but are too imperfect for description. 4. indicwm is found throughout the 
tropics of both hemispheres. 
VIII. PAVONIA. Cav. 
Involucel 5-15 leaved, persistent. Staminal column naked and 5- 
toothed at the apex, bearing stamens on its external surface, below the 
summit. Ovary of 5 carpels united round a central axis; styles confluent 
below, to-cleft above ; stigmata ten, capitate. Fruit of 5 indehiscent, 
one-seeded carpels. Hndl.Gen. No. 5275. A. Gray, Gen. 2. p. 75. t. 130. 
Shrubs, suffrutices or herbs, chiefly tropical and sub-tropical. A large genus, 
variable in habit, chiefly American, with a few out-lying Asiatic and African species. 
Flowers yellow, white or red, often handsome. Name in hononr of Don José Pavon, 
a Spanish botanist, and one of the authors of the Flora Peruviana. 
Group 1. Lepretonts. Jnvolucel of 5, rarely of 6 leaflets. (Sp. 1-3.) 
1. P. macrophylla (E. Mey.!); stem and branches hispid with long, 
patent, stiff hairs; leaves on long hairy petioles, deeply cordate at base, 
— 5-angled and somewhat 5-lobed, with shallow, rounded interspaces, 
coarsely crenato-dentate, laxly villous on the upper, stellato-pubescent 
- on the lower surface ; stipules linear; peduncles axillary, elongate, one- 
_ flowered ; invol. of 5-6 broadly ovate, fringed, connate leaflets; calyx 
membranous, villous. Pentameris macrophylla, E. Mey.! Pavonia 
 Kraussiana, Hochst. in Walp. Rep. 5. 90. P. acuminata, Pl. Schimp.! 
- £. erenata, and Urena mollis. Hochst. Pl. Schimp. 
_ Has. Eastern districts and Port Natal, Zeyher’ Drege! Krauss! Sand River and 
Macallisberg, Burke § Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.) 
Herbaceous, tall and free growing, more hairy than tomentose. Leaves 2-3 inches 
long, equally broad, and either angled or lobed, the terminal lobe acuminate. The 
upper leaves are sometimes ovate, acuminate. Flowers flesh-coloured or rosy. Invol. 
leaflets more or less united at base, and in one of Burke’s specimens united into a 
monophyllous, 5-cleft in al plant is common to the warmer parts of the 
colony and to the country d east of the frontier. It occurs also in Abyssinia, 
whence we have it under t names! Anoda cordifolia, E. Mey./ in Herb. 
Drege, is another of its aliases. eae See 
Has. In thickets near Port Natal, Drege! Gueinzius! (Herb, Hook., T.C.D., 
3. P. mollis (E. Mey. 1); stem and branches hairy-tomentose ; leavee 
on long, villous petioles, sub-cordate at base, with 5 short, deltoid, acuts 
lobes and rounded interspaces, coarsely and unequally toothed, 5-7- 
nerved, puberulous on the upper, velvetty and canescent on the lower ce 
surface ; stipules setaceous ; flowers axillary or in axillary, leafy racemes 
invol. of 5-6 linear leaflets ; calyx villous, diaphanous, its segments 3 
ribbed. Althea B t, E. & Z.! No. 300, : ee 
