46 MALVACEX. URENA. 
solitary, axillary, on short pedicels ; upper ones in a spiciform raceme: in- 
volucel usually 6-cleft: petals obcordate, their claws villous: carpels sur- 
rounded by a membranaceous furrowed margin.—DC. prod. 1. p. 497 ; Spr. 
syst. 3. p. 107 ; Wight! cat. n. 167.—A. flexuosa, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 892; 
DC. prod. 1. p. 437; Spr. syst. 3. p. 108.—A. Chinensis, Wall.! L. n. 2689. b. 
«| —Pliuk. t. 259. f. 2? 
Perhaps A. Coromandeliana, and A. Chinensis, are mere varieties of A. rosea. 
We have reason however to believe, that ours is certainly the plant of Sims, 
which was sent from Madras by Lady Gwillim, under the name of the Seringa- 
patam Hollyhock. 
III. URENA. Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 583; Geærtn. fr. t. 135. 
Calyx persistent, surrounded by a 5- (or rarely 10-) cleft persistent invo- 
lucel. Style 1, 10-cleft at the apex.  Carpels 5, (or by abortion 4), capsular, 
connivent, indehiscent, 1-seeded, usually echinated externally with numerous 
prickles having multifid reflexed points (glochidiate). Radicle inferior.— 
Leaves usually bearing beneath glandular pores on one or more of the nerves 
near their base. x 
The number of glands, the shape of the leaves, and their hairiness, vary so much 
in specimens of the same species, that all those generally known might with great 
propriety be referred to two,—the Linnean U. lobata, and sinuata. At all events, 
no reliance ought to be placed on the characters usually given. 
_ 165. (1) U. /obata (Linn.:) herbaceous: leaves roundish, with 3 or more 
short sometimes obsolete acute or obtuse lobes, more or less velvety, 5-7- 
nerved, with one or sometimes three glands: segments of the involucel 5, 
oblong-lanceolate, equal to the expanded calyx: carpels densely pubescent, 
echinate.—DC. prod. 1. p. 441; Spr. syst. 3. p. 96; Wall.! L. n. 1928; 
Wight! cat. n. 168 (densely villous) and 170 (densely pubescent).— Dill. 
Elth, t. 319. f. 412; Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 25. f. 2. A. 
*166. (2) U. scabriuscula (DC.:) herbaceous: leaves roundish, with 3 
or more short sometimes obsolete acute or obtuse lobes, harshly pubescent 
on both sides ; 5-7-nerved, with 1 or 3 glands beneath: segments of the in- 
volucel 5, linear, acuminated, longer than the expanded calyx: carpels pu- 
bescent, echinated.— DC. prod. 1. p. 441; Spr. syst. 3. p. 96; Wight! cat. n. 
169.—U. cana? Wall.! L. n. 1930. b. 
The specimens before us were from the Madras herbarium, under the name 
of U. lobata, and with the remark that they were the produce of seeds ob- 
tained from the Isle of France. Perhaps it is not distinct from the last 
species. 
t 167. (3) U. repanda (Sm.:) herbaceous: stem downy: leaves broadly | 
ovate, waved, serrated, scarcely lobed, longer than the petioles ; upper side 
even, rough with stellate hairs; under with a solitary gland, strongly reti- 
culated with copious veins, paler but scarcely more soft or downy : segments 
of the involucel subulate, the tube at length strongly ribbed: carpels unarmed. 
—DC. prod. 1. p. 441.—Pavonia repanda, Spr. syst. 3. p. 98.—Coromandel ; 
Roxburgh. 
Of this, or of the genus to which it belongs, we know nothing. The above 
is entirely taken from Smith (in Rees’ Cyclopedia, v. 37), to whom Rox- 
burgh sent specimens: it is not in Wallich’s List. 
168. (4) U. sinuata (Linn.:) perennial, shrubby ?: leaves divided into 5 
or 3 lobes beyond their middle, serrated, beneath with 1-3 glands on the 
nerves, and pale with a hoary pubescence ; sinus rounded ; lobes dilated up- 
wards and again lobed: segments of the involucel linear-oblong, about equal 
to the ovate divisions of the calyx: carpels pubescent, echinated.—« ; middle — 
lobe of the upper leaves about equal to the others.—U, sinuata, DC. prod. 1. 
