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laribus, infimis solitariis, ceeteris fasciculatis, superioribus spicato-racemosis ; pedun- 

 culis unifloris brevissimis ; capsula ovoidea lobis calycis ovato-triangulatis paulo lon- 

 giore, coccis 15 mucronatis dispermis. — Spliseralcea miniata, Gray, Pl. Fendl p. 19, 



Sides of mountains near El Paso ; 



I had doubtfully referred 



^ Gen. IIL 2. t 127, non Malva miniata, Cav. 



Sept. " Much branched and spreading from the root." 



this species to the Malva miniata, Cav. ; but that has probably been correctly iden- 



tified by Hooker and Arnott (Bot. Misc. 3. p. 151) with specimens from Mendoza, 



gathered by the late Dr. Gillies. At least, one of these specimens accords admira- 



bly with the figure of Cavanilles, which our plant does not. Wrighfs spccimens 



are more dwarf, difFuse, and pubescent than those of Fendler, doubtless from having 



been gathercd at a drier season or locality. 



61. Pavonia Wrightii, Gray, Gen. IIL 2. p. 76. t. 130, §• FL Lindh. 2. p. 161. 

 Rocky clifFs of the Nueces Eiver, and hills of the Rio Frio, Texas. — A pretty 

 plant in cultivation, producing an abundance of its fresh rose-colored flowers dur- 



ing the whole season. ' , 



62. Malvaviscus Drummondii, Torr. §• Gray, FL 1. p. 230 ; Gray, Gen. IIL 2. 



t. 131. Bottoms of the Leona Eiver, W. Texas.* 



63. HiBiscus cARDiopHYLLus (sp. nov.) : humilis, tomentosus ; caule e radice pe- 

 renni erecto ; foUis cordatis subrotundis crenulato-dentatis obtusis vel acutiusculis 

 supra velutinis subtus densissime cano-tomentosis ; stipulis setaceis; pedunculis 

 axillaribus solitariis unifloris folium ajquantibus vel superantibus paulo sub apice 

 articulatis ; involucello 9-10-phyllo; phyllis spathulato-lanceolatis tomentosis laci- 

 niis calycis lato-lanceolatis 3-5-nerviis sequilongis vel demum brevioribus ; coroUa 

 roseo-purpurea columnam stamineum superante; capsula glabella calyce breviore, 

 valvis chartaceis ; seminibus puberulis in loculis paucis. — Eocky hill-sides, Turkcy 

 Creek, W. Texas, June ; and on the Rio Grande, in Southern Texas. Also Zimapan, 

 Mexlco, Coulter (No. 805). Near Monterey, Gregg (185, &c.), Dr. Edwards §* 

 Major Eaton, Wislizemis (370). — Mr. Wrighfs specimens are mostly in fruit; the 

 others are finely in flow^er. The stems are rather stout, from 9 to 20 inches high, 

 from a lignescent perennial root ; the exactly cordate leaves are from one and a half 

 to above two inches in diameter. Peduncles 3 or 4 inches long. Leaves of the in- 

 volucre broad and conspicuous. Petals more than an inch long, sprcading, deep 

 rose-purple, considerably longer than the column. Ovules 10 or 12 in each cell. 

 — I know of no species with which this may be particularly compared. 



64. H. (Bombicella) denudatus, Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. p. 7. t. 3. /3. inyolu- 

 CELLATus : ramis superne minus foliosis ; corolla majore ; involucello c bracteolis 

 5-7 modice evolutis setaceis. — Sides of hills near El Paso, New Mexico ; Sept. 

 Gathered in the same region by Wislizenus, and at Cerros Bravos, Northern Mexico, 

 by Gregg (481). — Stems suffruticose, one or two feet high, 'much branched; thc 

 flowering branches more naked than in the poor specimens gathered iii the voyage 



Nutt 



West) No. 104, and a!so, I believe, H. truncatus, A. Rich. FL Cuh. 1. p. 144. t. 16, as well as II. Ban 

 croftianus, McFad. Fl. Jamaic. \. p. 70 (II Mackleyanus, Bancroft.). 



