148 Malvaceee. \Pavonia. 



A weed throughout the Tropics. 



An oval glandular pore is situated at the base of the midrib beneath 

 in both species. 



Affords a good fibre. 



2. U. sinuata, L. Sp. PI. 692 (1753). Hin-epala, A". 

 Herm. Mus. 63. Burm. Thes. 150. Fl. Zeyl. n. 257. Moon Cat. 50. 

 Thw. Enum. 25. C. P. 1129. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 331. Burm. Thes. t. 69, f. 2. 



A perennial herb, stem 2-4 ft., much branched, finely 

 stellate-hairy; 1. very variable, 1^-3 in., rotundate, usually 

 deeply palmately cut into 5 lobes, which are again lobed or 

 pinnatifid, .serrate, .stellate-hairy on both sides ; fl. as in U. 

 lobata, bracts a little shorter than cal. ; ripe carp, as in the 

 last, but with the spines rather longer. 



Same places as the last, and equally common. Fl. Nov.-Feb.; bright 

 pink. 



Generally distributed throughout the Tropics. 

 Scarcely a separate species from U. lobata. 



5. PAVONZA, Cav. 



Herbs; fl. axillary, solitary, bracteoles 5-14, nearly free; 

 sep. 5, connate at base ; pet. 5, connate at base and adnata 

 to stam. ; stam. monadelphous ; ov. 5 -celled, with i ovule in 

 each cell, styles 10; ripe carp. 5, indehiscent, separating from 

 axis, without a beak, smooth. — Sp. 60; 6 in Fl. B. Lid. 



Bracteoles 5, broad i. P. glechomi folia. 



Bracteoles 8-14, setaceous. 



Ripe carp, narrowly winged on the edges . 2. P. ZEYLANICA. 



Ripe carp, not winged 3. P. ODORATA. 



I. P. g-lechomifolia, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, i. 54 (1847). 



Trim, in Journ. Bot. 1885, 142. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 330. Wight. Ic. t. 4 {Lebretonia procumbens). 



Herbaceous, stems procumbent, with a few scattered hairs ; 

 1. \\-2 in., roundish-ovate, cordate at base, slightly 3-lobed, 

 acute, coarsely crenate-serrate, sparingly stellate-hairy, pe- 

 tioles I in., hairy, stip. filiform ; fl. about i in., ped. equalling 

 or exceeding 1., slender, stellate-hairy, jointed near top, 

 bracteoles 5, free, broadly oval, acute, longer than sep.; sep. 

 ovate, acute ; pet. twice as long as sep. ; ripe carp, keeled, 

 strongly muriculate on back and sides. 



Dry or desert regions ; very rare. Tissamaharama, S. Prov. 1882. 

 Fl. December ; yellow (?). 



Also in Peninsular India and Burma, and extends to Arabia and 

 Trop. Africa. 



