Pavonia. MALVACE^. 331 



Cat. Hort. Par. 246 ; DC. Prodr. i. 440. M. Mexlcana, Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 74, 1. 129, probably 

 not Schrad. — Texas, Wright. (Mex., W. Ind.) 



16. URENA, Dill. {Uren, a Malabar name.) — More or less canescent 



herbs or undershrubs (of Asiatic or African origin) ; with small and sessile or 



short-peduncled flowers, yellowish or purjjlish corolla, and a small burr-like 



fruit. — Elth. 430, t. 319 ; L. Gen. no. bob} 



U. lobAta, L. Leaves rouuded, mostly broader than long, subcordate, augulately 3-lobed at 

 summit, serrulate, upper face green, beneath an oblong gland on tlie base of one or tliree 

 middle ribs : petals pink or rose-color. — Spec. ii. 692 ; Griseb. 1. c. 81 ; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 

 609 ; and many synonyms and varieties. — About dwellings in Florida. (Nat. from W. Ind., 

 thence from India.) 



17. PAVONIA, Cav. (Joseph Pavon, one of the authors of the Flora 

 Peruviana.) — Shrubby or suffruticose plants of warm-temperate and tropical 

 zones, of various habit, some near to Urena, others connecting with Malvaviscus. 

 — Diss. ii. App. 2, & iii. 132, t. 45-49 ; DC Prodr. i. 442 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 

 75, t. 130. 



§ 1. Carpels 3-awned or 2-3-cornute, angled, thick. 



P. spinif ex, Cav. Shrubby, pubescent : leaves oblong-ovate and subcordate, dentate : 

 flowers sfender-peduncled, mainly axillary : bractlets of the involucel several, linear or 

 lanceolate, fully equalling the calyx : petals yellow, an inch long, equalled by the column : 

 mature carpels firm-coriaceous, bearing three long spiny retrorsely barbed awns, one suhter- 

 minal and two lower marginal ones. — Diss. iii. 133, t. 45, f. 2 ; DC. 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 

 608. Hibiscus spinifex, L. Spec. ed. 2, ii. 978. — Coast of Florida ; perhaps introduced, as it 

 is at Charleston, S. Carolina. (Trop. Am.) 



p. racemosa, Swartz. Shrubby, puberulent : leaves cordate, slender-acuminate, nearly 

 entire, 3 to 5 inches long : flowers in a terminal naked raceme : bractlets of the involucel 6 

 or 8, oblong-lanceolate, nearly equalling the moderately 5-lobed calyx : petals greenish-yellow 

 or whitish, three fourths inch long, surpassing the column : carpels smooth, with a pair of 

 short triangular beaks near summit of margins, and a small medial apical crest. — Fl. Ind. 

 Occ. ii. 121.5; DC. 1. c. 443; Griseb. 1. c. 83; Chapm. 1. c. P. spicata, Cav. Diss. iii. 136, 

 t. 46, f. 1, but flowers nfjt spicate. Malache scahra, &c., Trew, Ic. PI. Sel. t. 90. — Coast 

 and keys of S. Florida, in marshes, Garber, Palmer, Curtiss. (Trop. Am.) 



§ 2. Carpels unarmed and pointless, obovoid, small, dorsally 1 -nerved. 



P. hastAta, Cav. Frutescent, canescent with minute pubescence, much branched : leaves 

 hastate, obtusely dentate, inch or two long : flowers slender-peduncled in the axils : bractlets 

 of involucel 5 or 6, obovate to lanceolate, equalling the calyx : petals pale red with dark 

 spot at base, half inch long : stamens in the short column sometimes few : carpels reticu- 

 lated : flowers often cleistogamous. — Diss iii. 138, t. 47, f. 2; Reichenb. Ic. Bot. Exot. iii. 

 t. 227. P. LeContii, Torr. & Gray in Gray, PI. Fendl. 16. P. Jonesii, Feay in Wood, 

 Class-Book, ed. of 1861, 269. Malva LeContii, Buckley, Am. Jour. Sci. xlv. 176. Greevesia 

 cleisoc.ali/x, F. Muell. in Hook. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. viii. 8. — Georgia near the coast, 

 introduced. (Nat. from extra-trop. S. Am.) 



P.* lasiopetala, Scheele.^ Shrubby, tomentulose and cinereous : leaves cordate or sub- 

 cordate, serrate or repand, sometimes slightly angulate-lobed, 1 to 3 inches long : flowers 

 slender-peduncled in the axils : bractlets of involucel 5 to 8, linear, rather longer than the 

 ovate acuminate 3-5-nerved calyx-lobes : petals rose-color, half to three fourths inch long: 

 carpels smooth or obscurely reticulated. — Linnsea, xxi. 470. P. Wrightii, Gtslj, Geu. III. 



1 Add Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 361-385. 



- The earliest name, abandoned on account of its not infrequent inapplicabilit}' (the petals being 

 often glabrous), is here restored on grounds of priority, as by ITook. f. & Jackson, Index Kew. ii. 442. 



