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lobes not extending beyond the middle of the leaf, the sinuses usually broad, 
acute. Flowers axillary, solitary or somewhat fascicled, pink, about 1.7 mm 
in diameter. Fruit depressed-globose, about 7 mm in diameter, the 5 carpels 
covered with short, retrorsely barbed spines. (FI. Filip. pl. 248, U. multi- 
fida.) 
In waste places, fl. all the year; throughout the Philippines. Tropics 
generally, but certainly an introduced plant in the Philippines. 
Var. SINUATA (L.) Gagnepain. (U. sinuata L.). . 
Very similar to the preceding and certainly not specifically distinct, 
differing in most of its leaves being deeply and often narrowly subpalmately 
lobed, the sinuses extending beyond the middle of the leaf, rounded, often 
narrow. Flowers and fruits as in the species. All intergrading leaf-forms 
are often found on the same plant. 
More abundant in the vicinity of Manila than is U. lobata and with the 
same habitat, and Philippine and extra-Philippine range. 
Var. SCABRIUSCULA (DC.) A. Gray. 
Similar to the species, but the leaves with very broad and shallow lobes, 
both: surfaces rather densely hirsute, the lower surface’ much paler than 
the upper, the branchlets and inflorescence ferruginous pubescent. 
In waste places near Fort McKinley, fl. all the year. Less common than 
the other forms in the Philippines. India to Malaya. 
6. MALVAVISCUS Dillenius 
Shrubs or small trees, more or less hispid or pilose. Leaves variously 
toothed or lobed. Flowers red, peduncled, axillary, bracteolate. Calyx 
5-lobed. Corolla exserted, campanulate. Staminal-column long-exserted, 
antheriferous near the apex. Ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; style-branches 
10. Fruit subglobose, somewhat fleshy, tardily separating into 5 inde- 
hiscent carpels. (From Malva, another genus of the family, and the Latin 
“offspring.”’) i 
Species about 6 in tropical America, a single one introduced and culti- 
vated in the Philippines. 
*1. M. PrLosus (Sw.) DC. Gomamela de China (Sp.-Fil.). 
A shrub 1.5 to 2 m high, all parts with scattered, stellate-hispid hairs. 
Leaves ovate, 6 to 10 cm long, irregularly toothed, acuminate, base broad, 
5- to 7-nerved. Flowers in the upper axils, erect, red. Bracteoles about 
7, linear-oblong, as long as the calyx. Calyx green, 5-lobed, 1 cm long. 
Corolla about 2.5 em long, the lobes strongly imbricate. Staminal-column 
long-exserted, slender. Fruit surrounded by the persistent calyx and brac- 
teoles, about 6 mm in diameter. 
Occasionally cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. Oct—Mar., and 
probably in other months. A native of the West Indies. 
7. KOSTELETZKYA Presl 
Herbs, often suffrutescent, usually more or less hispid. Leaves orbicular 
to ovate, more or less toothed or lobed. Flowers axillary, solitary, pe- 
duncled, the bracteoles 7 to 10, linear. Calyx 5-lobed. Staminal-column 
entire or 5-lobed, slightly exserted. Ovary 5-celled, cells 1-ovuled; style 
branches 5, Capsule 5-angled, loculicidally dehiscent. (In honor of V. F. 
Kosteletzky, a Bohemian botanist.) 
