Anoda. MALVACEAE. 319 



i. 38, t. 10, 11, & Ic. V. t. 431 ; Schlecht. Linngea, xi. 205 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 63, 

 t. 124, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 297.^ [Revised by B. L. Robinson.] 



§ 1. EvANODA, Gray. Seed horizontal (minutely papillose and puberulent), 

 destitute of accessoiy coating or in one species with a vei'y thin and fragile vein- 

 less pellicle ; capsule much depressed and radiatiform, of 9 to 20 dorsally beaked 

 or cuspidate (rarely pointless) carpels, the flat summit hirsute or hispid : calyx- 

 lobes triangular or subovate, acute or acuminate : leaves very diverse in same 

 species. — Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. 



* Corolla violet or purple varyiug to white : calyx widely spreading under and mostly sur- 

 passing the hispid fruit : herbage destitute or nearly so of stellular pubescence but variably 

 hirsute-hispid or hispidulous with usually simple bristly hairs, or else glabrate : slender 

 peduncles nearly all subtended by leaves. 



A.* lavaterioides, Medic. Lowest leaves cordate and usually angulate ; upper deltoid 

 or hastate or subtrilobate, the margins either irregularly dentate or entire : petals commonly 

 cuneiform and retuse, from a third to nearly an inch long : carpels 15 to 20, rather conspicu- 

 ously beaked, the dorso-basal portion wholly thin-scarious and veinless and with slender mid- 

 nerve, the sides or partitions wholly obliterated in the breaking up of the fruit ; seed naked, 

 puberulent. — Malv. 19; Hook. f. & Jackson, Index Kew. i. 139. A. cristata, Schlecht. Lin- 

 ntea, xi. 210; Garcke in Kegel, Gartenfl. xxxvi. 428, & in Engl, Jahrb. xxi.387. A. triloba 

 & A. Dilleniana, Cav. Diss. i. 39, 40, t. 10, f. 3, & 1. 11, f. 1. A. hastata, Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 1. 124, 

 Fl. Wright, i. 20, ii. 23, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 298, not Cav. (Abutllon, lavaterce Jlore, 

 fructu cristato, Dill. Elth. i. 3, t. 2.) Sida cristata, L. Spec. ii. 685, excl. var. $ ; Curtis, Eot. 

 Mag. t. 330 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 588. — S. Texas to Arizona. (Mex., S. Am., &c.) Leaves 

 exceedingly variable even upon tlie same individual. Our form usually has the upper leaves 

 elongated and conspicuously hastate. 



A. * triangularis, DC. Hispid-pubescent upon the younger parts, but at length glabrate 

 below, 8 inches to 2 feet high: stem (often purplish-tinged) suberect, in well developed 

 specimens with several ascending branches from near the base : leaves typically deltoid- 

 ovate, acute, more or less deeply and irregularly crenate-dentate, rather pale green, glauces- 

 cent beneath ; the uppermost, rarely all, deltoid-lanceolate, more or less hastate : flowers 

 much smaller than in the preceding species : petals only 3 or 4 lines long, pale blue, little 

 exceeding the calyx : carpels 8 to 12; membranaceous septa of the capsule either subper- 

 sistent at its base or (with the carpellary lining) loosely clinging to the seed. — Prodr. i. 

 459; Schlecht. 1. c. 216; Garcke, 11. cc. A. brack i/antha, Reichenb. Ic. Bot. Exot. t. 34. A. 

 hastata, var. depanperata. Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 23. A. Arizonica, Gray, Proc. Am. Aciid. 

 xxii. 298 (form with seeds more or less invested). Sida triangularis, Willd. Enum. 725. — 

 Texas to Arizona. (Mex., where ace. to Hartman used as a febrifuge; Lower Calif., 

 S. Am.) In identifying this and related species kindly assistance has been received from 

 Professor Garcke. 



Var. * digitata, Robinson, n. comb. All but the lowest leaves hastately digitate, 

 with elongated lanceolate to linear middle lobe and a pair of basi-lateral lobes on each side. 

 — A. Arizonica, var. digitata, Gray, 1. c. — S. Arizona, Lemmon, no. 517, coll. of 1881. 



A.* hastAta, Cav. {A. acerifolia, DC. 1. c. ; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 298, not 299) 

 much re.sembles A. lavaterioides, but has the upper part of fruiting carpels coarsely reticulated, 

 at length bilamellar and clathrate, nearly in the manner of the following. It may be expected 

 on our southern border. The yellow-flowered plant, ascribed to A. hastata by Robinson & 

 Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. xxix. 382, is probably a di.stinct species. 



* * Corolla yellow : calyx srtbrter-lobed, less explanate under the densely stellate-hirsute 

 fruit, which it moderately or hardly surpasses. (Here also A. lanceolata. Hook. & Arn.) 



A. "Wrightii, Gray. Erect, 2 to 5 feet high, viscidulous-puberulent and above more or 

 less villous-hirsute : lower leaves deltoid-ovate and upper hastate-lanceolate : peduncles 



1 Add E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. xxx. 73. 



