218 MONADELPIIIA-rOLYANDKIA. Lavalcra. 



way down into 5 more upright and acute lobes. Pd. 5, 

 inversely heart-shaped, abrupt, flat, spreading, attached 

 by their contracted claws to the tube of the stamens. 

 Filam. numerous, capillary, united below into a cylin- 

 drical tube ; separate in the upper jiart, both at the sum- 

 mit and sides. Aiith. kidney-shaped. Gcrvu orbicular, 

 depressed. Style cylindrical, with a conical permanent 

 base. Siigvias rather numerous, 7 — 14, bristle-shaped, 

 as long as the style. Caps, as many as the stigmas, com- 

 pressed, either tumid, or concave and wrinkled, at the 

 back, ranged in a circle round the columnar receptacle, 

 which in some species is greatly dilated ; each of"2 valves 

 and 1 cell, finally deciduous. Seeds solitaiy, kidney- 

 shaped. 

 Mostly arborescent, soft and densely downy; the pubes- 

 cence in some instances starry. Leaves lobed, serrated, 

 stalked. Fl. axillary, stalked, red or whitish. 



1 . L. arhorea. Sea Tree-mallow. 



Stem arboreous. Leaves downy, plaited, with seven an- 

 gles. Stalks axillary, aggregate, single-flowered. 



L. arborea. Linn. Sp. PL 972. Willd. v. 3. 793. Fl. Br. 742. 

 Engl. Bot.v.26. t.]S4\. Hook. Scot. 209. DeCand. Prodr. v.\. 

 439. Cavern. Diss. 8G ami 282. /. 139./. 2. 



Malva arborea marina nostras. Merr. Pin. 75. Kaii Sy7i.2o2. 



M.maritima arborea nostras. Moris, v. 2. 523. Sibb. Scot..part2.37. 



On maritime rocks, but rare. 



At Hurst castle, over against the isle of Whitej in Portland island; 

 on Caldy island, in ('armarthen bay; and on the Basse island, 

 Scotland. Rnij. On Inch-Garvy, and Mykrie Inch, in tlie Frith 

 of Forth Sibha'd. In Cornwall and Devonshire. //wf/sort. Pem- 

 brokeshire. Mr. Adains. 



Bleimial. Jnly — October. 



Root much branched, running deep into the ground. Stem from 

 6 to 10 feet high, upright, strait, thick, scarred; simple be- 

 low ; branching into a leafy head ; the bratiches besprinkled 

 with fine, deflexed, compound, bristly hairs. Leaves of a grey- 

 ish green, pliant, soft and downy, alternate, on longfvotslalks; 

 their margin in 7 shallovv crenate lobes. Fl. much like those 

 of the coiiunon Malva sylvestris, in general appearance, but 

 darker towards the middle, and the woolly calyx very diffirent 

 ir. structure, as described in the generic character. Caps. 7 or 8, 

 reticulated, smooth. 



This Lavatera, if allowed to scatter its seeds in a garden, will 

 spring up for many successive years, and the young |)Iants will 

 now and then survive one or more mild winters ; but having 

 once blossomed it perishes. 



