328 MALVACE^. Abutilon. 



A. Palmeri, Gray. Shrubby below, tall : stems aud stalks pubescent and usually villous : 

 leaves velvety-tomentose, round-cordate, dentate (larger 4 to 6 inches long) : flowers mainly 

 in a naked panicle : peduncles or pedicels about inch long : calyx very villous, in fruit half 

 inch long, the lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate, little shorter than the petals : carpels 

 about 8, with short subulate beaks, very villous ; seed-coat warty. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 

 289. — Yaqui River.i N. Sonora, Mex., Palmer. 



A. aurantiacum, Watson. About a foot high, woody at base : leaves velvety-tomentose 

 and canesceut 1>oth sides, round-cordate with closed deep sinus, crenate, inch or two in 

 diameter: peduncles mainly axillary and shorter than the leaves: calyx in fruit nearly 

 half inch long, cleft to tiie middle, very pubescent, canescent ; lobes ovate, acuminate, half 

 the length of the petals: carpels 10, villous-pubescent, with short subulate beaks; seeds 

 rougliish-puberulent. — Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 357. — Lower California, a little below the U. S. 

 boundary, Parry, Orcutt. 

 -J— H— Fruit pubescent or puberulent, equalled by or moderately surpassing the calyx : 



peduncles mainly axillary and shorter than the leaves. 

 ++ Leaves very soft and velvety white-tomentose beneath, less so or even glabrate and at 



length green above ; the veinlets mostly obscure : calyx 5-parted ; lobes ovate, acuminate. 



A. permolle, Sweet. Shrubby below, freely branching, 2 to 5 feet high : no villous hairs : 

 leaves ovate-cordate and mostly acuminate (larger 4 inches, smaller inch long) : later flowers 

 somewhat panicled : petals half inch long, much exceeding the calyx; the latter hardly at 

 all angled at base, barely equalling the 7 to 10 divergently mucronate-beaked carpels; seeds 

 minutely warty. — Hort. Brit. ed. 1, .53 ; Don, Syst. i. 503 ; Gray, PI. Wright, i. 20; Griseb. 

 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 609. A. Jacquitii, Chapm. Fl. 66, not Don. A. peraffine, Shuttl. in 

 distr. pi. Kugel, no. 956. Sida permollis, Willd. Enum. 723. — S. Florida, in many places. 

 (W. Ind.) 



A. ^T^rightii, Gray. Ascending or decumbent and herbaceous from a lignescent stock : 

 slender branches and stalks with some soft spreading hairs : leaves round-cordate, obtu.se 

 or acutish, an inch or more long, crenulate to dentate, very soft aud white-tomentose 

 beneath : calyx half inch long and little shorter than the petals, or more accrescent, angu- 

 late at base ; the tapering acuminate lobes mostly surpassing the 7 or 8 pubescent subulate- 

 aristate carpels; seeds smooth and glabrous. — PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 162, & PI. Wright, i. 20. — 

 S. Texas, Berlandier, Wright, &c., and Arizona, Pr ingle. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier, Pringle.) 



A. Parishii, Wat.son. Wholly herbaceous, erect, 2 feet high, very white-tomentose : stem 

 and stalks commonly villous with reflexed hairs : leaves very long-petioled, ovate-cordate, 

 hardly acuminate, crenate-dentate, an inch or more long : peduncles all much shorter than 

 the petioles : petals one third inch long : lobes of the deeply 5-parted calyx ovate, (juarter 

 inch long, little over half the length of the 7 or 8 (rarely 5 or 6) mucronate-beaked pubes- 

 cent carpels; seeds puberulent. — Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 357. — Santa Cataliua Mountains, 

 Pringle, and near Lowell, Arizona, Parish. 



++ ++ Leaves and stalks canescent or cinereous with short and partly scurfy-stellular down ; 

 the veinlets as well as veins conspicuous beneath. 



A. Leramoni, Watson, 1. c. Fmticose, a foot or two high, much branched, erect, very 

 leafy : leaves ovate-cordate with shallow sinus, acute or acuminate, inch or more long : 

 peduncles about the length of the slender petioles : petals quarter inch long : calyx 5-parted, 

 canescent ; lobes l)roadly ovate, in fruit 3 or 4 lines long, half or two thirds the length of 

 the 8 or 9 puberulent-canescent mucronate-pointed carpels ; seed-coat roughish-scurfy or 

 puberulent. — Rocky hills, S. Arizona, Thurber, Lemmon, Pringle. (Lower Calif., Streetsi 

 Orcutt.) 



A.* Berlandieri, Gray. Branching, lignescent : leaves mostly larger than in the last pre- 

 ceding species, ovate or somewhat ovate-oblong, shallowly cordate, crenate-dentate, ..cumi- 

 nate : calyx deeply 5-parted ; lobes ovate, acuminate, 4 to 6 lines long, equalling or exceed- 

 ing the mature carpels: petals half inch in length. — Gray in Wats, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 



1 Tliis specie!? was again collected bj' Dr. Palmer at Gua^mias, Mex., but the plant so named, 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 67, from Lower Calif., is probably distinct. 



