MALVACEAE 319 
yellow, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter. Fruits about 1.5 cm long, 2 cm in 
diameter, composed of from 15 to 20, somewhat pubescent, shortly awned 
earpels. (FI. Filip. pl. 837.) 
In waste places, rather common, fl. all the year; throughout the Philip- 
pines, but certainly introduced. Tropics generally. 
4. MALACHRA Linnaeus 
Erect, branched, coarse, hairy, annual herbs. Flowers in axillary fasci- 
cles, usually intermixed with bracteoles. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, the lobes 
5. Petals 5, free above, coherent below, and connate with the base of the 
staminal-tube. Staminal-tube truncate or 5-toothed, the filaments numerous. 
Carpels 5, l-ovuled; styles 10. Ripe carpels indehiscent, menerpting from 
the axis, smooth. (From the Latin for “mallow.’’) 
Species 5 or 6 in tropical America, 1 now introduced in many other 
tropical countries, 2 in the Philippines. 
Leaves not lobed; flowers usually yellow...........2......-.-:c-:sse000+ 1. M. capitata 
Leaves deeply palmately cut into 5 narrow lobes; flowers pink. 
2. M. fasciata 
1. M. capiraTA L. Paang-baliuis (Tag.). 
A coarse, erect, simple or branched, annual herb 0.5 to 2 m high, coarsely 
hairy. Leaves suborbicular, obscurely and shallowly-lobed, finely toothed, 
base somewhat cordate, 5 to 15 cm in diameter, the stipules linear. Flowers 
in axillary and terminal heads, the bracteoles foliaceous, up to 1.5 cm long. 
Calyx-lobes short, slenderly acuminate. Petals yellow, imbricate, about 1 
emlong. (FI. Filip. pl. 295.) 
In waste places, common, fl. Sept._Feb.; throughout the Philippines. A 
native of tropical America, now widely distributed in tropical countries. 
2. M. FASCIATA Jacq. Paang-baliuis (Tag.). 
A stout, erect, more or less branched, hirsute herb 0.5 to 1 m high. 
Leaves 10 to 15 cm long, cut nearly to the base into 5 linear or oblong-linear 
lobes 5 to 15 mm wide, the outer ones much shorter than the inner, base 
obtuse or rounded. Flowers fascicled, axillary or on short axillary branches, 
each fascicle more or less enclosed by leafy bracts, the bracts with basal, 
elongated, linear lobes. Corolla pink, about 1 cm long. 
Abundant in waste places, fl. Sept.Jan. A native of tropical America, 
now common and widely distributed in the Philippines, but not reported 
elsewhere in the Orient. 
5. URENA Linnaeus 
Erect branched herbs or undershrubs, stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate 
to orbicular, palmately lobed or angled. Flowers axillary, pink. Bracteoles 
5, adnate to the 5-cleft calyx. Petals 5, free above, connate below and 
adnate to the staminal-tube. Staminal-tube truncate or minutely toothed; 
anthers many, nearly sessile. Ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; branches of 
the stigma 10. Ripe carpels covered with hooked bristles, indehiscent, 
separating from the axis when ripe. (From the Malabar name.) 
Species 4 or 5, of wide tropical distribution, several forms of one species 
in the Philippines. 
1. U. LoBATA L. Calut-calutan (Tag.). 
An erect, branched, shrubby plant 0.6 to 2.5 m high, exceedingly variable, 
more or less pubescent. Leaves pale beneath, ovate to suborbicular, 3 to 
9 cm long, cordate, more or less toothed, or somewhat lobed or angled, the 
