20(; xxr. MALVACE.^. • [Abutilon. 



carpels 5 or Hues long, aiiJ very broad and oLtusc. — A, halophihim, F. Miiell. m linncTa, 

 XXV. 381. — N. S. Wales, S. Australia, and W. Australia? 



18. A. crispum^ G. Bon, Gen, Sj/st. i. 502. A herb or undcrshrub, 

 with slender spreading branches, closely tomentose, often viscid, witli long 

 spreading hairs internnxed. Leaves cordate, acuminate, crenate, softly to- 

 mentose, the upper ones on short petioles or quite sessile. Pedicels slender, 

 often exceeding the upper leaves. Flowers small, yellow. Calyx 2 or rarely 

 3 lines long, deeply divided into lanceolate or triangular acuminate lobes, re- 

 flexed under the fruit. Petals not much longer. Fruit nearly globular, 

 hispid with scattered hairs, 4, 5, or sometimes above 6 lines diameter; car- 

 pels about 10 to 15, distinctly separating from the axis, very thin, shining 

 inside and almost scarious when npe, and almost always 1 -seeded, although 

 the ovary has 2 or 3 ovules.— A. Gray, Gen. 111. 1. 126 ; Wight, Ic. PI. t. 68 ; 

 Slda crispa, Linn. ; DC, Prod, i, 469 \ Bastardia crispa^ St. Hil. M. Bras. 

 Mer. i. 194. 



N. Australia. Sources of Hooker's Greet, and ^lacarthur river, F. Mueller ; Jlait- 

 laud river, T. Gregorifs Expedition, 



The species is widely spread over tropical America, and is also found in East India and 

 tropical Africa. 



7- URENA, Linn. 



Bracteoles 5, united in a 5-cleft involucre, adnata to the calyx at the base. 

 Calyx 5-toothed or 5.1obed. Stamiual column beariua; several filaments or 

 almost sessile anthers outside, below the truncate or 5 -toothed sunmnt. 

 Ovary-cells 5, l-ovu!ate; style branches 10, with tej-m'inal capitate stigmas. 

 Fruit-cai-pels seceding from the axis, indehiscent, murieate or covered with 

 hooked bristles. Seeds ascending. — Rigid tall herbs or sbrubs, more or less 

 seabrous-tomentose. Leaves usually angled or lobed, at least the lower ones. 

 "Flowers sessile or on very short pedimcles, often clustered, axillary or in ter- 

 minal leafy racemes. 



Besides the cue or two species common in all tropical regions, the genus comprises t^vo 

 or three tropical Asiatic ones which appear distinct. As a genus, 'Urena scarcely differs 

 fi'ona Pavonia^ 



1. U. lobata, Linn. ; DC. Prod. i. 441, var. grandiflora . A hard, erect 

 herb or shrub of 2 to 4 ft., coTcred on the stems and under side of the leaves 

 with a whitish close often scabrous tomentum. Leaves petiolate, the lower 

 ones nearly orbicular, the upper ones ovate or lanceolate, palmately 3- to 7- 

 veined, irregularly toothed, angular, or broadly and shortly lobed', glabrous 

 above or slightly seabrous-tomentose. Flowers'sessile or nearly so. Involucre 

 deeply cleft into narrow-lanceulate lobes, in the single Australian specimen 



arly \ in. long, and fully twice as long as the cal/x, but often not longer 

 than the calyx or shorter. Petals pink, about 1 in. long in this specimen, 

 but often much smaller. Carpels in our specimen shortly murieate.— Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3043 (with short involucres). 



Queensland. Sutton and Burdel<in rivers, Leichhardt. 



The species is wide!)- spread over tropical America, Africa," and Asia, and is very variable 

 in the shape of the leaf and proportions of the involucre, calyx, and pctaU, as well as in tlie 

 carpels, more or les3 glochidiate or^ murieate; and most prohably the V. ainmta, Lin"-' 

 almost equally coaimou, is only a variety with deeply-cut leaves. 



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