MALVACEy"E. 59 



1. Malaclira capitata. Hirsute Malaclir a. 



Leaves subrotund cordate obsoletely lobed toothed, 

 peduncle axillary short bearing 7 flowers within a 3- 

 leaved involucre, stem hirsute. 



Malva aspora major aquatica, Shane, I. 217, t. 147. f. 1. 



HAB. Batli, St Thomas in the East. Ferry road. Sea- side 

 at Rockfort. 



FL. End of the year. 



Stem 3-5 feet in height, erect, branched, terete, hirsute 

 with strigosG-spinescent liairs, witli a tomentose line passing 

 upwards from the axil of each leaf. Leaves subrotund, cordate, 

 obsoletely lobed, acute at the apex as also the lobes, irregularly 

 toothed, 3-nerved, hirsute, and also stellato-pubescent especially 

 along the under surface of the nerves : petiole compressed, hir- 

 sute, with a line of tomentose hairs along the upper surface. 

 Stipules i-1 inch long, setaceous, hirsute. Peduncles axillary, 

 1-3 together, not so long as the petiole, each bearing 7 flowers 

 in a head. Involucre 3-leaved ; leaves petioled, cordate, acu- 

 minate, entire, nerved, hirsute ; each of them furnished at the 

 petiole with a pair of linear strigose inch-long leaflets. Flowers 

 yellow, subsessile. Calyx 5-fid ; segments lanceolate, 3-ncrved, 

 ciliated. Petals 5, nearly 2™- the length of the calyx, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, rounded at the apex, ciliated, veined. Co- 

 lumn of stamens hirsute : anthers x . Style 10-fid, recurved. 

 Carpels 5, united to form an orbicular depressed capsule, gla- 

 brous, scrobiculate : seeds one in each carpel. 



A coarse weed. Shuts its flowers at mid-day. The hairs 

 stiff and somewhat stinging. 



III. Urena. 



Calyx surrounded by a 5-fid involucellum (5 leaf- 

 lets united for half their length). Anthers at the 

 apex of the tube of the stamens. Carpels capsular, 

 5, connivent, 1-seeded, generally echinated externally 

 with prickles radiating at their apex. — De Cand. 



Leaves usually glandulose on the under surface. — N^ame, 

 from the word common in Malabar to designate this genus. 



1. Urena reticulata. Reticulated Urena. 



Lower leaves roundish sub-3-lobate cordate, the 

 upper ones ovate, angulated irregularly serrated his- 

 pid above stellato-hirsute reticulated and uniglandu- 

 lose beneath, involucellum 5-7-fid somewhat longer 

 than the calyx. 



