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MAl^VA* Muni'oana. 

 Mr. Munrd's Mallow. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



LSBItARY 



NEW YORK 



iKilANJCAL 



Nat. ord. Malvaceae. 



MALVA. — Suprc}, vol. 4. fol. 295. 



Sect. Malvastrum. Carpella 1-Iocularia, monosperma. 

 § 7. Multiflorae, Jioribus purpurascentibus v. albis, pedunculis axillaribus 



multijioris, involucello o-phyllo^foliis angnlatis. 

 M. Munroan?L; herbacea albido-tomentosa, t'oliis subrotundis cordatis sub- 



quinquelobis dentatis, involucello setaceo, pedunculis terminalibus 



paniculatis. 

 M. Munroama. Douglas in herb. Hart. Soc. 



Undique albo-tomentosa. Caulis ascendens, l^-2-pedalis, teres. Folia 

 subrotunda, cordata, subquinqueloba, dentata; lobo medio majore. Floras 

 imniculati, subsecundi. Calyx involucro c foliolis 3 setaceis deciduis con- 

 stante, campa7iulatus 5-Jidus. Corolla miniata, subglobosa, petalis rotundatis, 

 eynarginatis. Carpella plurima, capsularia, monosperma, bivalvia, reticulata, 

 in orbeyn disposita. 



This plant was found by Mr. Douglas abundantly upon 

 the barren plains of the Columbia, in July 1826; and is 

 closely allied to Malva miniata of Cavanilles. 



In our Gardens it does not possess any very striking 

 beauty ; but this is probably owing to a want of the right 

 mode of managing it ; for Mr. Douglas speaks of it as one 

 of the most beautiful of the plants he collected ; and it 

 appears from his dried specimens that it really is a far 

 more showy plant when wild than when cultivated. It 

 suffers much in beauty from rain, which discharges the rich 

 vermilion of the petals, and gives the flowers a dirty red 



* Said to be a Latin alteration of the Greek f^aXciy/i, sigliifying soft. 

 The emollient properties of the Mallow tribe are well known. 



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