Sphceralcea. MALVACE^. 313 



M. coccineum, Gray. A span or two high, tufted, somewhat silvery-canescent, the 

 pubescence of tlie calyx looser, even soniewliat villous : leaves inch or less in diameter ; the 

 cuneate or narrower divisions mostly 2-3-cleft into spatulate or linear lobes : flowers short- 

 pedicelled, crowded or at length looser in a terminal leafy-based raceme : calyx-lobes lanceo- 

 late-triangular, in age incurved over the fruit : petals copper-scarlet or brick-red. — PI. Fendl. 

 21, 24 (partly), PI. Wright, i. 17 (with var. Jissec^t/m, which is merely the most narrow-leaved 

 form), Gen. 111. ii. t. 121, & Man. ed. 5, 101. Malva cocclnea, Nutt. in Fraser, Cat., & Gen. 

 ii. 81. Cristaria coccinea, Pursh, Fl. ii. 453 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1673. Sidu coccinea DC. 

 Prodr. i. 465; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 108.1 S. dissecta, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i.'235; 

 Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 327, the narrower-leaved form. — Plains from the Saskatchewan 

 and W. Iowa to W. Texas, thence west to S. Arizona and E. Oregon ;2 first coll. by Nuttall. 

 A tall form with broad-lobed leaves has been called var.* elatum, by E. G. Baker, Jour. 

 Bot. xxix. 171. 



Species of doubtful affinity, not seen by the editor. 



M.* orbiculatum, Greene. " Suffrutescent, the stout, erect, and simple branches 2 to 3 

 feet high ; whole plant densely tomentose : leaves short-petioled, 1 to 2 inches long and as 

 broad, the lower and smaller round-reniform, the upper orbicular, not even obscurely lobed 

 but coarsely crenate, very obtuse or slightly retuse : flowers many, nearly sessile and densely 

 glomerate in the axils of the upper leaves and at almost leafless snbterminal nodes : bract- 

 lets setaceous, much shorter than the lanceolate acuminate deep calyx-lobes : corolla deep 

 rose-color, 6 lines long or more: fruit unknown." — Fl. Francis. 109 (whence descr.). — 

 " Mountains south of Tehachapi, Kern Co.," Calif., Greene. 



8. SPH^RALCEA, St. Hil. (S^atpa, a sphere, aXxea, a mallow, the 

 fruit commonly sj^herical.) — PI. Us. Bras. t. 52, & Fl. Bras. Merid. i. 209; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 69, t. 127, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 291 ; Benth. & Hook. 

 Gen. i. 294 (escl. MelipMea, Zucc.).^ — Herbs or suffruticose plants (American 

 with one or two S. African), with habit of Malvastrum and Abutilon, founded on 

 »S'. Cisplatina of Buenos Ayres. The first division confluent with the second on 

 one hand, with Malvastrum on the other. 



* Fruit usually more or less globose-depressed : ovules 1 or 2, the upper seldom maturing : 

 mature carpels more or less reniform, tomentulose or glabrate, and with thin and smooth 

 summit or upper half usually empty, at maturity directly deciduous from the axis, only 

 upper part bivalvular- or introrse-dehiscent ; lower and seminiferous portion strongly and 

 firmly reticulated over the thin or diaphanous sides : perennial herbs except perhaps the 

 first." 



-t- Root simple, apparently winter-annual : short scarious summit of mature carpel inflexed. 



S. Coulteri, Gray. Canescent on younger parts, when older rather loosely stellular-pubes- 

 cent and becoming greenish : stems about a foot high, numerous, ascending from the tap 

 root : leaves roundish-subcordate, seldom inch long, obscurely or more distinctly 3-lobed, 

 incisely or doubly crenate : flowers clustered in axils and racemose at summit, short-pedi- 

 celled : calyx barely 3 lines long: petals quarter or third inch long, orange-scarlet: carpels 

 15 to 20, at maturity over a line long, flat, reniform in outline from the strong incurvation 

 of the quadrate-oblong scarious empty apex, 1-ovuled, the thin seminiferous body also 

 scarious but strongly reticulated and as if fenestrate throughout, the firm meshes dark 

 colored. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 291. S. Fendleri, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 39, mainly. 

 Malvastrum Coidleri, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 125; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 85 (thin 

 projection within carpel not found).* — W. Arizona, on and near the Gila, first coll. by Th. 



1 Add syn. Malveopsis coccinea, Kuntze, 1. c. 



2 Northwest to Kamloops Lake, Brit. Columbia, ace. to J. M. Macoun. 



3 Add E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. xxxi. 361. 



* Add S}'n. Malveopsis multijlurum, Greene, Fl. Francis. 109. Malveopsis Coulteri, Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. i. 72. 



