XXV. MALVACE.1E. 101 



Widely distributed throughout the Presidency (except Sind) ; a common weed, 

 Dahcll S( Gibson. Deccan : Poona, Woodrowl; Koina Valley, Cooke'. Gujarat: 

 Dabhoi, Woodrow ! ; Baroda, Cooke ! S. M. Country : Londa, Woodrow ; Badami, 

 Cooke \ — DiSTKiB. All tropical regions. 



8. PAVONIA, Cav. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves often angled or lobed. Mowers axillary 

 or clustered at the ends of the branches. Involucral bracts 5-oo , nearly 

 or entirely free. Petals 5, connate at the base, adnate to the staminal- 

 tube. 8taminal-tube bearing numerous filaments below the truncate 

 or 5-tootlied apex. Ovary 5-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; styles 10 ; stigmas 

 capitate. Carpels 5, separating from the axis or more or less 2-valved, 

 never glochidiate. Seed ascending. — Lass., Adans. Fam. v. 2 (1763) 

 p. 400. — DisTRiB. Chiefly tropical American ; species more than 60. 



Invol. bracts 5-6, foliaceous 1. P. glechomifoUa. 



In vol. bracts 8-14, subulate. 



Ripe carpels downy, slightly winged ; leaves entire 2. P. arabica. 



Ripe carpels glabrous, narrowly winged ; leaves usually lobed 3. P. seylanica. 



Ripe carpels unarmed, wingless 4. P. odorata. 



Ripe carpels with -3 stout horns and 4 basal appendages 5. P. ceratocarpa. 



Ripe carpels with 2 short prickles 6. P. propingua. 



1. Pavonia glechomifoUa, GarcJce, in Schioeinf. Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. 

 (1867) p. 54. Shrubby, procumbent. Leaves 1^-2^ by l-l-f in., 

 ovate, cordate, acute, or roundish, more or less 3-lobed, coarsely crenate- 

 serrate, stellately hairy or tomentose ; petioles 1-2 in. long, pubescent 

 or hairy ; stipules subulate. Pedicels 1 in. long, axillary, solitary, 

 slender, jointed near the flower, stellately hairy. Involucral bracts 5, 

 leafy, ^ i'l- long, broadly lanceolate, sometimes unequal, much longer 

 than the calyx, connate at the base. Calyx deeply divided ; lobes ovate, 

 acute, densely downy. Corolla yellow, longer than the involucre. 

 Carpels muricated and with a serrulate crest. Seeds chestnut-colored, 

 reniform, smooth. V\. B. I. v. 1, p. 330 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 148 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 127. Lehretonia glechomi- 

 foUa, A. Eich. Fl. Abyss, v. 1, p. 54. 



SiNu: DalzelV., Cooke\\ Jemadar ka Landa, near Karachi, /S^"t/ts, 497 1 Gujarat: 

 Mangrol (coast of Kathiawar), Woodrow ! — Distrib. Arabia, tropical Africa. 



2. Pavonia arabica, Steud. Nom. ed. 2, v. 2 (1841) p. 279 (name 

 only). A much-branched undershrub, stellately downy all over ; stem 

 woody. Leaves |-1 in. long, ovate, cordate, prominently nerved beneath, 

 entire or slightl}^ toothed ; petioles g-1 in. long. Pedicels axillary, 

 solitary, jointed near the flower and with stellate and glandular hairs. 

 Involucral bracts 10-13, linear, hairy, more than twice as long as the 

 calyx, fi'ee to the base. Calyx hairy ; lobes lanceolate. Corolla pink, 

 more than twice as long as tlie calyx. Carpels villous, .slightly winged. 

 Seeds minutely pubescent. Mast, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 1, p. 193; 

 Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 331 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) 

 p. 127 ; Hochst. et Steud. in Schimp. PL Abyss, exsicc. 2139. — Flowers 

 in the cold season. 



A rare plant. Sind: Dalzelll, Stocks'.; Karachi, Vicnn/l, Cooke I — Distrib. 

 Abyssinia. 



