MALVACE.^. Ill 



touch : leaves roitud-cordate, acuminate, crenate-dentate, 3 — 6 in. long, 

 on petioles of 2—5 in. : peduncles axillary, erect, shorter than the 

 petiole : fl. small, orange-yellow : carpels about 15, inflated, obliquely 

 birostrate, pubescent, 3-seeded. — A common weed in cultivated grounds 

 at the East ; reported as established about Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co. 



9. HIBISCUS, Dioficorides. Stout herbs, with large and showy 

 axillary and solitary flowers. Involucel of many bractlets, Stamineal 

 column antheriferous below the summit ; above naked and truncate or 

 5-toothed. Styles united ; stigmas 5, capitate. Carpels united into a 

 5-celled lociilieidal capsule ; cells several-seeded. 



1. H. Califoriiicus, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. iv. 292 (1873) : H. 



Muscheutos, var. vccidenlalis, Torr. Bot. Wilkes Exp. 2-56 (1874) : H. lasio- 

 ■carpus, var. occidentalism Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 303 ; Wats, in 

 Garden and Forest, i. 425. fig. 68. Perennial, stout, erect, branching, 

 5—7 ft. high, velvety-pubescent : leaves cordate-ovate, acuminate, coarsely 

 but not deeply toothed, 3 — 5 in. long, exceeding the petioles : peduncle 

 jointed above the middle, 2—3 in. long, 1-flowered : calyx 1 in. long, 

 cleft to the middle, the lobes acute : corolla 3 — 4 in. long, yellowish or 

 cream-color, with dark purple center : capsule 1 in. long, acute, velvety- 

 pubescent : seeds a line in diameter, globose, striate and tuberculate- 

 roughened. — In moist or swampy places along the rivers of the interior, 

 from the lower San Joaquin to Butte Co. It is possible that more than 

 one species is included in the above synonymy. 



10. FREMONTIA, Torrei/. A stellate pubescent shrub or small tree 

 with alternate and rather small lobed leaves ; stipules small, caducous. 

 Flowers axillary, on short pedicels. Involucel of 3 — 5 small bracts. 

 Calyx 5-cleft almost to the base, imbricate in bud, yellowish and petaloid, 

 pitted at base, persistent. Corolla 0. Stamens 5, united to the middle 

 of the filaments ; anthers linear, adnate, 2-celled, curved. Ovary 5-celled, 

 many ovuled ; style acute, stigmatic at the apex. Capsule loculicidally- 

 dehiscent ; cells 2— 3-seeded. Seeds ovate; embryo small, in copious 

 fleshy albumen ; cotyledons ovate.— Genus monotypical, as far as known; 

 unless our shrub be, as some very learned authorities assert, only a 

 second species of the Mexican Cheiranihodendron. 



1. F. Califoriiica, Torr. PI. Frem. 6. t. 2 (1850) ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. t. 

 5591 ; Greene, in Garden and Forest, ii. 470 ; Sarg. Silv. i. 47. t. 23 ; 

 Baill. Hist. iv. 70 (1873), under Cheiranthodendron. Arborescent and 

 12—20 ft. high, or small and bushy ; branches stout ; bark dark gray : 

 leaves thick, rusty-tomentose beneath, % — 23/3 in. long, broadly ovate- 

 cordate, entire or 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse, mucronate ; petiole short : 

 flowers many and almost crowded on the branches ; the corolla-like 

 calyx 13 in. wide, yellow within, partly of a rusty- red without : capsule 



