180 MONADELPHIA llODRCANDRI A. Althaea. 



rotate, fruit sub-globular, compound, of about twenty, ob- 

 liquely reniforni, ihne-seeded capsules. 



H'md. Bnra-banglij about Cawnpore, where indigenous. 

 From that place Colonel Hardwicke sent the seeds to the 

 Botanic garden where the plants thrive most luxuriantly, and 

 blossom chiefly about the close of the rains, and beginning 

 of the cold season. In a favourable soil they grow with an 

 erect stem to the height of six, eight, or even more feet ; with 

 numerous, spreading branches, forming a beautiful, large, 

 ovate bush ; all the young parts are covered with much clam- 

 my down, intermixed with some larger, very soft hairs. 



Leaven aiteniale, petioled, round-cordate, crenulate, five 

 or seven nerved ; the larger ones on the stems of young luxu- 

 riant plants are sometimes slightly lobate; both sides cover- 

 ed with the same clammy pubescence, from two to twelve 

 inches ej'cli M'ay. Petioles almost as long as the leaves. Sti- 

 pules reflexed, narrow-falcate, acute. Peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, sub erect, generally shorter than the petioles, one- 

 flowered. Flowers large, of a deep orange colour, with a 

 dark ferruo-inous spot in the centre. Coral rotate; lancinia 

 obcordate. I ericarpivm, f in it almost round, nearly the length 

 of the calyx, composed of about twenty, three-seeded, villous, 

 obtuse-pointed capsules. The tresh plant possesses a strong, 

 peculiarly unpleasant smell. 



ALTHAEA. Schreb. gen. N. 1132. 

 Calyx double ; the exterior one from six to nine-cleft. 

 Capsules many, one-seeded. 



A. rosea. Willd. u\.77S. 



Herbaceous, erect, ramous. Leaves from five toseven-lob- 

 ed, angular. 



Alcea rosea. Linn, Miller's Illustrations. 



Holly-hock. 



Hind. Gool-khyru. 



