178 MALVACE^. (MALLOW FAMILY.) 



3. L«. triuie§tri§, L. .2 to .5. hairy or glabrescent. Lower 

 leaves kidney-shaped, crenate, intermediate cordate-ovate, angled, up- 

 permost 3-lobed. Peduncles long; involucre shorter than calyx, grow- 

 ing considerably in fruit, lobes triangular, often dentate ; petals wedge- 

 shaped, truncate, .04 long, 4-5 times as long as calyx— Spring — 

 Fields ; coast and mountains to 1000 m. ; Jordan Valley. 



4. jflALiVA, L. Mallow. KhiCbhdza. Kfmllaki. 



Bractlets 3, rarely 2, distinct. Calyx 5-fid. Ih-anches of style 

 filiform, stigmatose along their inner border. Carpels whorled around 

 a short or conical torus, indehiscent —Annual or perennial herbs with 

 pink flowers. 



* Peduncles solitary in axils, l-2-Jlo2cered. 



1, HtK, JBg^yptia, L. .05 to .1, appressed-pubescent. Leaves 

 orbicular, hipahmUipartite into short, oblong, ciliate lobes. Peduncles 

 somewhat longer than the leaf ; bractlets 2, linear ; calyx-lobes trian- 

 gular, acuminate, longer than bractlets, about as long as corolla — Spring 

 — El-Jebel-el-Abiadh, between Hamath and Palmyra. Et-Tih and 

 •southward, and westward. 



* * Peduncles clustered i?i axils, 1-flowered . 



t Petals .02 or more long, with hearded claw. 



2, M. §ylve§tri§, L. Wood Mallow. .3 to .5, more or less 

 hairy. Leaves round-heart-shaped, obtusely 5-7-lobed, dentate. Pedun- 

 cles erect after flowering ; margin of carpels entire — Summer — Fields 

 and waste places ; common. 



Var. oxyloba, Post. Lobes of upper leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate — Tel-er-Rame (Jordan Valley). 



1 1 Petals .01 lo?ig or less. 



I Leaves round-Jieart-shaped, more or less oMusely 5-'7-lohed.. 



§ Petals twice as long as calyx ; claws iearded. Margins of carpels entire. 



3, ]W[. Mcseeusis, All. Ped. BaqineJi. .3 to .6, erect or 

 diffuse, more or less hairy. Peduncles erect after flowering ; bractlets 

 oblong, calyx-lobes triangular, growing after flowering — Spring — 

 Weedy places and roadsides ; common. 



4, m. rotundifolia, L. 2^ Common Mallow. Khublaizi. 

 .3 to .6, usually clothed with clustered hairs, diffuse. Peduncles 

 deflexed after flowering ; bractlets linear, acute ; calyx-lobes triangular, 

 acute, erect after flowering, growing— Spring and summer — Weedy 

 and neglected places ; everywhere. 



Var. perennan§, Post. If Dwarf, prostrate, densely tufted. 

 Leaves .01 to .02 broad — Inundated meadows near top of Akherdagh. 



§ § Petals a little longer than calyx ; claws glabrous, margin of carpels 



dentate. 



5, m. parviflora, L. .3 to .6, more or less hairy or glabres- 

 cent, spreading. Peduncles short, at length spreading ; bractlets very 

 narrowly linear, acute ; fruiting calyx growing much, scarious, lobes 

 spreading, short, round, mucronate — Spring — Roadsides and waste 

 places ; common. 



