Napcea. MALVACEAE. 307 



narrow, linear to oblong and entire : spilce many-flowered, at length elongated : short 

 pedicels and calyx minutely stellular-puberulent, the lobes triangular-acuminate (2 lines 

 long) : petals 4 or 5 lines long, rose-purple : carpels mostly very smooth. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xxii. 288. — Bear Valley in the San Bernardino Mountains, at 6,000 feet, in wet places. 

 Parish. 



* * * Phalanges as in the last : inflorescence dense : leaves flabelliform or reniform-orbicu- 

 lar, crenate, but none of them divided or parted. 



S.* Hickmani, Greene. Tall leafy loosely stellate-pubescent perennial with habit of 

 Afulvustrum : leaves thin, the lower suborbicular, the upper flabelliform, larger, 1| to If 

 inches broad, rather deeply crenate-toothed but not lobed : flowers racemose-spicate, not 

 very crowded ; pedicels sliort ; geminate ^ bracts and involucellate bractlets narrow, elon- 

 gated, linear, villous : rose-purple petals 8 lines in length : carpels glabrous, smooth except 

 for a few transverse wrinkles, which do not reach the middle of the back. — Pittonia, i. 139. 

 — Reliz Canon, Monterey Co., California, J. B. Hickman. 



Var.* (^ ) Parishii, Robinson, n. var. Lower in growth and with shorter stellate pulier- 

 uleuce rather than pubescence : leaves of similar form but smaller, thicker, and less deeply 

 crenate : bracts and bractlets broader, ovate to lanceolate : flowers more crowded, a third 

 smaller. — S. Hickmani, Greene, Erythea, iv. 65, not of Pittonia. — Western slope of San 

 Bernardino Mts., California, S. B. Parish, no. 3786. Although certainly worthy varietal 

 rank, this plant, if observed at intermediate stations, will probably be found to pass into the 

 type. 



§ 3. Anomalous species, annual, with freely branching leafy stems, vitiform 



leaves, and glomerate inflorescence : flowers polygamo-dioecious : phalanges of 



the rather few stamens indistinct at very summit of the column. 



S. malachroides, Gray.^ Hirsute or soft-hispid with spreading stellate-fascicled or some 

 simple hairs : stem 3 to 6 feet high, equably leafy to the top: leaves angulately 3-7-lobed, 

 membranaceous, 2 to 5 inches broad ; the broad lobes unequally or doubly dentate : flowers 

 in dense short (and either subsessile or pedunculate) terminal and axillary spikes or heads : 

 calyx naked or subtended by one or two slender-subulate caducous bractlets ; lobes ovate, 

 acuminate : petals white or purplish, quarter inch or more long : ^f flowers commonly 

 pistiliferous and perhaps often fertile ; outer phalanges short and laciniate or 2-3-parted, 

 and the lobes 1-3-antheriferous, very close to the inner series of distinct or geminate 

 stamens : ? flowers with few and abortive anthers or none, and with 7 to 9 smooth and 

 glabrous thin-walled carpels. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 332 ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 84 ; 

 Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 80. S. vitifolia. Gray, 1. c, a softer pubescent and less 

 hispid form. Malva mxilachroides. Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 326; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 681 ; 

 Gray, PI. Fendl. 16. — California near the coast from Monterey to Mendocino Co. ;3 the 

 earliest collectors, Douglas and Coulter. 



6. NAP^A, [Clayt.] L. Glade Mallow. (From va-Tr-q, a glade, or Na- 

 TToiai, dell-nymphs.) — L. Syst. Nat. ed. 6, 120, & Spec. ii. 686; name later 

 ascribed by Linnaeus (Gen. ed. 5, no. 748) to Clayton ; Clayt. Fl. Virg. ed. 2, 

 102; L. Amcen. Acad. iii. 18 (excl. N. hermaphrodita) ; Gray, PI. Fendl. 20, 

 & Gen. 111. ii. 55, t. 119. — Single species. 



1 In this, as in some other species of this genus, the floral bracts of the primary axes are morpho- 

 logically stipules of obsolete leaves. 



2 Prof. E. L. Greene has separated this species, at first (Fl. Francis. 106) as Sidalcea § Iles^pe- 

 rfdcea, and later (Pittonia. ii. 301) as an independent genus, Ilespernlcea (II. mdlachrvldcs, Greene, 

 1. c). To the habital distinctions, which were quite well known to Dr. Gray, Prof. Greene adds only 

 one of a technical nature, namely, the form of the cotyledons. These he has observed to be abruptly 

 contracted at the base, not cordate as in some species of Sidalcea. However telling this differ- 

 ence ma}' prove in future, it is as .vet unsatisfactory, the embryos of many Sidalcece being still 

 unknown. 



3 Southward to the Sta. Lucia Mts., Miss Eastwood, and northward to Humboldt Co., Blankinship, 

 ace. to Rrandegee, Zoe, iv. 150. 



