180 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, Althaea. 
rotate, fruit sub-globular, compound, of about twenty, ob- 
liquely reniform, three-seeded capsules. 
Hind, Bura-banghi about Cawnpore, where indigenous. 
From that place Colonel Hardwicke sent the seeds to the 
Botanic garden where the plants thrive most luxuriantly, and 
blossom chiefly about the close of the rains, and beginning 
of the cold season. In a favourable soil they grow with an 
erect stem to the height of six, eight, or even more feet ; with 
numerous, spreading branches, forming a beautiful, large, 
ovate bush; all the young parts are covered with much clam- 
my down, intermixed with some larger, very soft hairs, 
Leaves alternate, petioled, round-cordate, crenulate, five 
or seven-nerved ; the larger ones on the stems of young luxu- - 
riant plants are sometimes slightly lobate; both sides cover- 
ed with the same clammy pubescence, from two to twelve 
inches each way. Petioles almost as long as the leaves. Sti- 
pules reflexed, narrow-falcate, acute, Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, sub-erect, generally shorter than the petioles, one- 
flowered. Flowers large, of a deep orange colour, with a 
dark ferruginous spot in the centre. Corol rotate; Jancinia 
obcordate. Pericarpium, fruit almost round, nearly the length 
of the calyx, composed of about twenty, three-seeded, villous, 
obtuse-pointed capsules, The fresh plant ecco Ht 
peculiarly unpleasant smell. 
ALTHAEA. Schreb. gen. N. 1132. 
Calyx double; the exterior one from six to nine-cletti 
- Capsules many, one-seeded. 
A. rosea, Willd. iii, 773. 
Herbaceous, erect, ramous, Leaves from five to seven-lob- 
ed, angular. 
Alcea rosea. Linn, Miller's Illustrations, _ 
Holly-hock. 
Hind. Gool-khyru. 
