MJUXO-iVS: HORTUS JAMAICENStS. " 9 



- MALLONV'S, UALXA. 



Cl. loj OR. G. Monadelphia polyandria. NaT. OR, Columnifsra. 

 Gen. CHAR. Calyx a double perianth; outer thiee-lcaved, narrower; inner oDf- 

 leafed, liaU'five-cleft ; corolla five-]ictaled, ob-cordate, jirainorse, Hat, fixed to 

 the tube of the stamens at the base ; stamens numerous filaments, uniting below 

 into a tube, seceding and loose at the top and surface of it ; anthers kidney-form ; 

 the pistil has an orbicular germ,, a cyJindric sliort style ; stigmas very many, bristiy^ 

 the length of the style ; the pericarp is a roundish capsule, composed of very 

 many cells, two-valved, placed in a whorl about a colunmar receptacle, finally 

 falling; seeds solitary, very seldom two or three, kidney-lorm. Two species arii 

 Datives of Jamaica, the rolundifoUa is an exotic^ 



1. ROTUNDIFOUA. ROUND-LEAFEP. 



Stem prostrate; kaves cordate-orbiculate, obsoletely five-lobcd ; fruiting pe-. 

 dunclfis declining. 

 Thisplant was introduced by a Captain Jones, who planted it in the mountains of* 

 I.iguanea, and it has thriven well in .Jamaica. It is a native of Europe. Its emollient 

 qualities are well known. The aipcnsis, or cape, and tlic crispa, or curled, mallovwr 

 have also been introduced. . 



2. SPICATA. . SniTED. 



Althea snicata hetonicce folio, fli-ire lutco, habitiori spica. Sloane, %'.. 

 I, p. 219, t. 1^8. yJssureoi.s, sH/ivillosa, viriiinil'tis tenuioribii^ 

 tentis tloribiis sessilib.us ; spicis oblongis tcrminalibus et alaribus. ~ 

 Browne, p. 282. 

 Leaves cordate, crenate, tomentose ; spikes oblong,, rough-haired.. 

 Browne calls this the erect mallows, with long slender branches. Stem pale green', 

 two or three feet high ; leaves almost round, an inch and quarter- long, and three- 

 quarters of an inch broad at ths base, pale green, smooth, on petioles three-fjurths of 

 an inch in length. The tops of the twigs and branches, for the length of an inch, are 

 thick set in a spike with orange-coloured flowers, in very hirsute calyxes. It is very- 

 common in.xileaved^ barren, rocky, lands. S'toane.. 



3. COROMANDELIANA. CORO.MAN'DF.I.. 



Leaves cblong, or cordate - serrate ; peduncles axillary ; flowers glomei'atei 

 arils three-cusped. 



Stem a foot lugli, round, hispid ; branches leaf}'; round, hispid ; leaves alternate', 

 oblonor, sometimes cordate at the l)ase, obtuse-hispici ; pctinles round, longer, hispid. 

 Peduncles solitaiy, upright, shorter than the petiole.- flowers terminating, in a sort of 

 spike, sessile, yellow; leaflets of the outer calyx linear ; styles ten to sixteen. Fruit 

 liirsute ; with two cusps of the arils in a pair, the third superior. It is an annual planijj. 

 and. common in Jamaica among grass Sic. 



Six Lndia.n aiALLOw and Maush-Mallo^t. - 



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