420 Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 



in moderate heat. The plant is a native of the Himalaya mountains, 

 and is handsome ; but the flowers are not very conspicuous, and the 

 bractea} are not deeply coloured when cultivated under glass. It is 

 probable that the incised state of the leaves also arises from cultiva- 

 tion ; for this is not mentioned in the description of native specimens 

 nor figured by Wallich. 



Malva Creeana. 



M. Creeana, fruticosa ; ramis sub-erectis ; foliis trilobatis, incisis, sub- 

 iindulatis, deltoideo-ovatis, stellato-liispidis, basi integerrimis ; flori- 

 bus solitariis, axillaribus ; petalis obcordatis, subcrenatis ; peduncu- 

 lis petiole brevioribus ; involucri foliolis filiformibus. 



Malva Creeana, Hort — Grah. in Bot. Mag. 3698. 



Description. — Stem shrubby, branched ; branches erect, closely covered 

 with harsh stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate ; petioles somewhat flattened 

 above, covered like the stem with similar hairs ; lamina rather longer 

 than the petiole, deltoideo-ovate, blunt, somewhat undulate, green and 

 sparsely covered with stellate pubescence above, white and more close- 

 ly covered with similar pubescence below, the upper leaves trilobate, 

 with the central lobe elongated, the lower less deeply cut into lobes, 

 but all coarsely and unequally incised, the segments blunt and reflect- 

 ed at their apices ; stipules filamentoso-subulate. Flowers axillary, so- 

 litary, on peduncles shorter than the petioles. Involucre of 3 filiform 

 leaves. Calyx longer than the involucre, deeply 5-cleft, pubescent on 

 the outside, subglabrous and shining within. Corolla of uniform rose- 

 colour, cup-shaped ; petals obcordate, and slightly crenate, glabrous 

 except at their insertion, where they are ciliated. Staminiferous column 

 hairy. Fistil equal in length to the stamens, rather shorter than the 

 petals; styles about 15, combined to about the middle ; germ en hairy. 



This, though a small flowered, is an extremely pretty species, and very 

 deserving of cultivation in the greenhouse, where it flowers freely in 

 June and July. We received it at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 

 1837, from Mr Pince, nurseryman, Exeter ; but I know nothing of its 

 history, or of the country from whence it was imported. In the ar- 

 rangement of the species, it seems to me it should be placed near to 

 Mcdva ditaricata. 



Pavonia Schrankii. 



P. Schrankii ; inermis ; foliis subcordato-ovatis, acuminatis, intequaliter 

 serratis, utrinque stellato-tomentosis ; pedunculis 1-floris; involucris 

 calyce brevioribus, 5-partitis ; carpellis inermibus. 



Pavonia Schrankii, Sprengel, Syst. Veget. iii. 98. — Grah. in Bot. Mag. 



3692. 

 Lebretonia coccinea, ScTirank. PI. rar. h. mon. t. 90. — Fecand. Prodr. i. 



446. 



Description. — Shrub erect ; branches erect, and, as well as the whole 

 plant, except the corolla and parts within it, densely covered with 

 coarse, harsh, reflected, yellowish hairs, which are distinctly stellate on 

 both sides of the leaves. Leaves (3| inches long, \\-2 inches broad) 

 scattered, spreading wide, petiolate, ovate, subcordate at the base, 

 acuminate, strongly veined and wrinkled, darker above than below 

 where the midrib and veins are very prominent, coarsely and unequal- 

 ly serrated; petioles about l-3d of the length of the leaves. Stipuks 

 (half an inch long) slender, subulate, erect. Feduncles solitary, axil- 

 lary, reaching nearly to the middle of the leaf, single flowered. Invo- 

 lucre 5-partite ; segments ovate, valvate, and prominent in their edges 

 near the base, 5-nerved, with reticulated veins, wrinkled. Calyx longer 

 than the involucre, 6-partite ; segments similar to those of the invo- 



