AblUUon,'\ _^ XXI, MALVACE.E. - 201 



hairs on the branches^ and paler on tlie under side of the leaves. Leaves 

 deeply cordate, from orbicular to nearly lanceolate, often shortly acuminate, 

 irregularly crenate or almost lobed, mostly shorter tlian in A, tubulosum. 

 Flo\vcrs large and white, ou short pedicels. Calyx broadly tubular-cainpanu- 

 late, I to i in. long, 10-ribbed, scarcely acuminate in the bud, the lobes ob- 

 tuse or shortly acuminate, shorter than the tube. Petals more than twice as 

 long as the calyx, adnate only to the pubescent base of the staminul tube. 

 Capsule as in A. tvhnlosnm, but fully as long as the calyx-tube. — Slda hnco- 

 petala, F. iMuell. Fragni. ii. 12. 



N. Australia. Hooker's Creek and Upper Victoria river, F, Mueller. 

 N, S. ^Vales. ]jurrier range, Victorian Ej-peditlon, 

 S. Australia. Cooper's Creek, Herb^ Maeiler. 



4. A, Mitchelli, Bmih, Apparently shrubby, clothed with a dense, 

 soft, velvety tomentum mixed with long spreatling hairs. Leaves deeply cor- 

 date, orbicular or broadly ovate, often shortly acuminate, 1^ to %\ in. long, 

 crenate, very soft and thick. Pedicels shorter than the petioles. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, 10-ribbed and somewhat 5-angled, 4 to 5 lines long, the acuminate 

 spreading lobes shorter than the tube. Petals (yellow ?) shortly exceeding 

 the calyx, pubescent at the base. Ovary-cells and style-branches about 10. 

 Fruit not seen. 



^ Queensland. Gullies in the ranges on the Maratioa, Mitchell. The plant has at first 

 sight the aspect of ^, muticum, but the calyx aud ovary are qnite dilTerent. 



Vur. (?) mollissima, Tonicntuni very dense and softj bnt without the long hairs of tlic 

 other specimens. Stony KiJ-c, MitchelL ' 



AbittiUa a-f/pluntha, F. Muell. in LiiuiEca, xxv. 379, from a specimen without flower 

 fi'onj Cudnaka, S. Australia, F, Mveller in TIerh. Sender, and from the description given, 

 appears to Le a form of A^ Mitchelli, with semiabortlve petals. 



5. A. micropetalum, Benth, Shrubby, very densely and softly to- 

 nieiitose or velvety. Leaves deeply cordate, aeuiuiuide, 2 to 4 in. long, QXt- 

 "[late. Pedicels short, in the upper axils. Calyx loosely canipanulate, almost 

 inflated, very shortly sinuate-toothed or almost truncate, 4 to 5 lines long-, to- 

 mentose, slightly 5-angled and lO-ribbed. Petals, in some flowers at least, 

 veiy small. Stamens very numerous, the slender column much longer than 

 the calyx. Capsule as !oug as the calyx, truncate at the top; carpels about 

 10 to 12, persistent, angular, or scarcely pointed at the upper outer edge. — 

 ^ida ulcropttala, R. Br. Herb. 



Queensland. Ilifls about Shonlwater T^ny, 7?. Brotcn. 



W. S. VTales. Eoweu river. Herb, Mueller (Uerb, R. Br, and F. Muell.), 



A, crypt 



Shrubby, but much more 



sleudcr than the preceding species, clothed with a whitish toiuentum, often 

 mtcrmixed on tlic young branches with a loose pubescence, the older branches 

 nearly glabrous. Leaves cordate, from orbicular to ovatc-Ianccolate, obtuse, 

 crenate, often under 1 in., the larger ones above 2 in. long, sometimes ob- 

 scurely lobed, soft with a rather dense velvety tomentum. Pedicels rarely 

 exceeding the leaves and sometimes very short, (^alyx about 4 to G lines 

 |ong, somewhat inflated^ softly canescent with 10 prominent veins or ribs, the 

 ^obes much shorter than the tube. Petals often very small, but sometimes 

 shortly exceeding the calyx. Capsule pubescent, about the length of the 



