2, Malva (Tourn.) Le 
Annual or perennial herbs with alternate leaves, Flowers solitary 
or clustered in the axils of the leaves, each subtended by 2 or 3 bract- 
lets, Sepals 5, partly united. Petals 5, obcordate, Stamens numerouse 
Styles stigmatic down the inner surface, Fruit flattened, separating 
at maturity into numerous l-seeded indehiscent kidney-shaped carpelse 
we a pia andl Se 
(il. llowe r 
1. ie neglecta Wallr. Cheeses, A weedy herb 20-50 cm, tall, the branches 
ascending or decumbent, thinly pubescent with branched hairs; leaf blades 
1,.5-2 em, broad, nearly rotund, shallowly 5-lobed, the lobes rounded, 
deeply cordate at the base, the margin dentate, undulate, both surfaces 
hairy with branched hairs, petioles 1-2 em, long; flowers on pedicels 1,5 
cm, long; calyx 6-7 mm, long, the bracts half as long; petals white, lz 
mn, long, oval, deeply notched, the veins vurplish; fruits 5-6 mm, in 
diameser, 2 mm, tall, the carpels about 12, pubescent, (Me rotundifolia 
Am. auth,, not Le). 
A frequent veed around dwellings and in waste places; naturalized 
from Eurove. For “correct names of small-flowered mallows" see C. V. 
Morton, Rhodora dG: 986 
oc igs 
in. 
