90 XXV. MALVACE^. 



Deccax : Poona, JVoodroto ; Karli, Cool-e] Sind: StocAs, 681!; Sbikarpur and 

 Sukkur, Vicarij\; Sehwau, Wuodrow; Hyclei-abacl, Cooke \ — Distrib. Western Asia 

 and the MediteiTanean region, S. Africa. 



Altlum rosea, Cav. Diss. 2 (1786) p. 91, t. 28, fig. 1, the well- 

 known Holhjhocl-, a native of Crete and Greece {fide E. Baker, 1. c), is 

 extensively cultivated as an ornamental plant in gardens tbroughout 

 India. It often exceeds 6 ft. in height, with, leaves 3-5 in. in diam., 

 long-petioled, cordate-ovate, acutely o-7-lobed, and with very shortly- 

 pedicelled flowers in a terminal raceme 1-3 ft. long. The corolla, which 

 is purple, rose, yellow, or white, often (in cultivation) exceeds 4 in. 

 across. M. B. I. v. 1, p. 319 {in note) ; Grah. Cat. p. 12 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 ISuppl. p. G ; Firminger, Man, Gard. ed. 2, p. 40G ; Woodr. Gard. in lud. 

 p. 18G; E. Bak. in Journ. Bot. v. 28 (Lond. 1890) p. 207.— Flowers : 

 Jan.-Mar. 



2. MALVA, Linn. 



Herbs hirsnte or downy. Leaves angled or lobed. Flowers axillary, 

 solitary or clustered, pedicelled. Involucral bracts 3 (very rarely 2), 

 distinct. !Staminal-tube divided to the apex into numerous autlieriferous 

 filaments. Ovary many- (inox'e than 5-) celled ; ovule 1, in each cell ; 

 styles as many as the carpels, filiform, longitudinally stigmatose on the 

 inside. Carpels forming a round depressed fruit, separating, when ripe, 

 from each other and the short central axis, indehiscent, not beaked. — 

 DiSTEiB, Temperate Europe and Asia, JV. Africa; species 17. 



Claw of petal bearded. 



Carpels rounded on the back 1. 31. rotundifolia. 



Carpels 2-keeled on the back 2. M. sylvestris. 



Claw of petal glabrous 3. M. parvijiora. 



1. Malva rotundifolia, Linn. /S)^. PL (1753) p. 688. A much- 

 branched herb, s])aringly pubescent and with some stellate hairs. Leaves 

 Jr-l| in. in diani., suborbicular, cordate, crenate ; petioles up to 2-4 in. 

 long. Pedicels axillary, 1-5 together, |-lj| in. long, deflexed in fruit. 

 Involucral bracts half the length of tlie calyx, lanceolate, hairy. Calyx 

 hairy ; lobes i in. long, ovate, acute. Corolla | in. in diam., pale purple 

 or white ; petals notched at the top, bearded at the claw. Fruit 5-5 in. 

 in diam., olive-brown; carpels 13-1 G, pubescent, not reticulated on the 

 back, the margins of the back rounded, not keeled. Seeds brown-black, 

 glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 320; E. Bak. in Journ. Bot. v. 28 (Lond. 

 1890) p. 341 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 126; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 141. — Flowers: Jan.-Mar. Vuen. 

 Khuparluii ; Chaadirl ; Khahdsi. The seeds are used in native uiediciue 

 as a demulcent. 



Sind: Stocks, 231 ! — Distkib. Europe, N. Africa, N. and W. Asia. 

 In the list of iJombay plants given by Wootlrow (/. v.) the localities in which this 

 plant and M. parviflom occur seem to have been transposed. 



2. Malva sylvestris, var. mauritiana, Bolus. Fl. Orient, v. 1 

 (1SG7) p. 819. A sparingly pubi-scent or nearly glabra te herb. Leaves 

 1-2^ in. in diam., round, cordate, 5-angular or shortly lobed ; petioles long. 

 Pedicels axillary, usually many together, some of tliem as long as the 

 flowers. Involucral bracts ovate, shorter than the calyx. Corolla H in. 

 in diam., i)uri)l<' ; claw of petals bearded. Fruit ] in. in diam. ; carpels 



