56 NEW PLANTS, ETC. 



3. Malva umbeixata. Cavan. ic, t. 95. De Cand. Prodr., 

 I. 435. 



Received from the Rev. F. Beadon, F.H.S., August, 1852. 



A very handsome soft shrub, covered with dense starry deciduous 

 woolliness. Leaves roundish, cordate, angular, or 3 — 5-lobed, 

 slightly toothed, sometimes as large as the hand, with tapering 

 stalks about three inches long. The flowers, which are extremely 

 handsome, with five large crimson inversely heart-shaped petals, 

 appear in 3 — 4-flowered umbels in the axils of the leaves, on 

 peduncles as long as the leaves themselves. They each have 

 three very deciduous bracts, which leave behind an indistinct scar 

 when they fall off; the calyx is hemispherical, with five equal 

 triangular lobes. The ovary is a roundish hairy body, containing 

 about forty cells, in each of which are four ovules placed one over 

 the other. 



It is stated that the native country of this plant is New Spain, 

 where it grows on the eastern slopes of the mountains. It was 

 cultivated thirty years ago, at Boyton, by the late Mr. Lambert, 

 but had been supposed to be lost till it reappeared in the garden 

 of the Rev. F. Beadon, at North Stonham. 



Although rather coarse-looking, it is useful in the conservatory 

 in winter, and makes a good temporary addition to shrubberies in 

 summer. 



4. SoNERIEA ORBICULATA.* 



Received from, and communicated by Dr. Royle, May 15, 

 1852, from the Nilgherry Mountains of India. 



Stems branched, a foot high, brittle, purplish towards the 

 upper end, clothed with weak scattered hairs. Leaves nearly 

 round, slightly pointed, flat, as long as their footstalks, with fine 

 hair-pointed serratures, seven-ribbed when perfect, but with not 

 more than three ribs on the uppermost pair. Peduncle about 

 three inches long, more than twice as long as the uppermost 

 internodes, quite erect, terminated by a simple cyme consisting of 

 one central flower and a pair of four-flowered arms, Calyx-tube 

 oblong, slightly prismatical, closely covered with stiff white hairs. 

 Petals oval, apiculate, bright rose-colour. 



* & orbkidala ; caruosa, caulescens, sparse pilosa, foliis orbiculatis acutis 

 petiolatis argut6 serratis 5 — 7-nerviis, cyma longe-pedunculata 9-flora, 

 calycis tubo oblongo-prismatico hispido. — J. L. 



