Malva, MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, si 
Pers, Kuli-bumesha, Babor, _ 
As in Europe, the varieties of this plant are numerous over 
India ; but always in a cultivated state only ; at least I have 
never met with it in any other, Our most beautiful sorts come 
from China, 
MALVA. Schreb. gen. N. 1143. 
Calyx double; the exterior one three-leaved, - Capsules 
many, one-seeded, 
1. M, Maxxitiann, Willd. iii. 787. 
Annual, erect. Leaves five-lobed, Peduncles and petioles 
smooth, Sneek cid 4G 
_ M. sinensis. Cavan, Diss, ii. t, 25. = 4. 
The Hindoos of these parts have no name for this plant, 
it is only found in gardens ; the seeds are generally brought 
from Hydrabad. It is annual; flowering time the cold sea- 
son, ; 
Siem erect, smooth, shining, from three to five feet high. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, of a roundish kidney-form, slight- 
_ly five or seven-lobed, five or seven-nerved, crenulate, soft, 
but smooth, from two to six inches each way.  Petioles 
as long as the leaves, round, smooth, Stipules oval, acute. 
Pedunceles axillary, several, round, smooth, about two-thirds 
shorter than the petioles, one-flowered. #'/owers numerous, 
large, of'a beautiful pale, rose-colour, striated with deep red. 
Exterior calyx, the leaflets narrow-cordate, inserted upon 
the inner calyx, smooth, Petals remote, broad wedge-form-. 
ed. Ari/s from ten to fifteen, depressed, umbilicated. 
2. M. rotundifolia, Willd. iii, 785. 
Annual, prostrate. Leaves cordate, obsoletely five-lobed.. 
A native of Persia, as well as of Europe. 3 
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