OBDER 24. MALVACEAE. 269 



petals erect, convolute ; styles 10, with capitate stigmas, the inner 

 longer; carpels 5, baccate, 1-seeded, forming a fleshy fruit. Half 

 shrubby plants, with showy, red flowers. 



1 M. Drummondii Torr. & Gr. Tall, minutely tomentous ; Ivs. roundish, cor- 

 date, angularly-3-lobed, crenate ; ped. axillary, solitary, shorter than the petioles ; 

 fls. erect ; bracteoles 8, linear-spatulale. Texas. Naturalized about N. Orleans 

 (Hale). St. round, branched, 3 to 4f high. Lvs. 3 to 4' diam., the petioles 

 half as long. Fls. bell-shaped, scarlet Column slender, twice longer than the 

 corolla, f 



2 M. Floridana, with leaves ovate-cordate, and fls. pendulous, scarlet, grows 

 in S. Ma. and sometimes in the green-house. 



3 M. arborea, with Ivs. 3 to 5-lobed, acuminate, serrate, and scarlet fls., 

 from Jamaica, is cultivated often in the green-house; and also, M. mollis, 

 velvety, 3-lobed, sub-entire Ivs. 



9. PAYONIA, Cav. (The Latin name of the peacock, suggested by 

 the colors.) Calyx 5-sepaled, surrounded at the base with an involucel 

 of 5 15 bractlets; petals roundish, obtuse; stigmas 10, linear; car- 

 Dels 5, capsular, 2-valved, 1-seeded. 



'P. Lecontii T. & G. Stem shrubby, much branched ; Ivs. many, small, sagittate- 

 oblong, obtuse, with coarse, obtuse teeth, the lower surface hoary-tomentous, 

 veins prominent ; upper surface scabrous ; sepals ovate, 3-veined, downy, acumi- 

 minate, as long as the 5 oval, acute bractlets ; carpels blunt, rugous, scarcely 

 dehiscent Liberty Co., Ga. (Mr. W. Jones). Stem 4 5f high. Lvs. 1 \ 2' 

 long, the floral much smaller. Fls. 1-J-' diam., rose- white, with a deep purple 

 center. (Malva Lecontii Buckley?) 



10. KOSTELETZKYA, Presl. (In honor of Kosteletzky, a German 

 botanist.) Calyx, involucel, styles, etc., as in Hibiscus. Fruit a 5-celled, 

 depressed capsule, with a single seed in each cell. 



K. Virginica Presl. Lvs. acuminate, cordate, ovate, serrate, dentate, upper and 

 lower ones undivided, middle ones 3-lobed ; ped. axillary, and in terminal racemes ; 

 fls. nodding, pistils decimate. H Marshes near the sea, L. IsL to Ga. and La. 

 (Hale). The whole plant scabrous, tomentous, about 3f high. Lvs. 2 to 2 J' by 

 1J', long-pointed, some of them somewhat 3-lobed. Fls 2' diam., red or rose- 

 color. Column slender, as long as the petals. Caps, hispid, acute-angled. Aug. 

 (Hibiscus Virg, L. and Ed. 2d.) 



11. HIBISCUS, L. Calyx 5-cleft, subtended by an involucel of many 

 bractlets, column long with the stamens lateral and the 5 stigmas capi- 

 tate ; fr. a 5-celled capsule, loculicidal, the valves bearing the partitions 

 in the middle ; seeds 3 or many in each cell. Herbs or shrubs. Fls. 

 large and showy. 



* Calyx, &c., hispid. Leaves palmately divided Nos. 1, 2 



* Calyx, <fec., tomentous. Lvs. undivided, angularly lobed Nos. 3, 4 



* Calyx, &c., glabrous. Leaves deeply lobed or parted Nos. 5, 6 



Leaves undivided, slightly lobed Nos. T, 8 



1 H. aculeatus "Walt Retrorsely scabrous ; Ivs. palmately 3 to 5-lobed, repand- 

 toothed, bractlets of the involucel linear, forked at the end ; sep. red- veined, acumi- 

 nate, very hispid. Damp soils, S. Car. to Fla. and La. Tall (3 5f) and very 

 rough. Lvs. 2 to 3' broad, as long as their stalks. Ped. very short (3 to 4"), 

 jointed at base. Cor. 4J' broad, pale sulphur-yellow, purple in the center. 

 Styles longer than the stamens. Jn. Sept. (H. scabra MX.) 



2 H. Trionum L. FLOWER OP AN HOUR. BLADDER KETMIA. Hispid, with 

 scattered hairs; Ivs. deeply 3-parted, segm. lanceolate, middle one very long, all 

 sinuate-lobed, lower Ivs. angular-lobed ; cal. inflated, membranous, veined ; brad- 

 lets subulate, entire. CD A beautiful flower, escaped from gardens and barely 

 naturalized, branching, 1 to 2f high. Fls. large, numerous, but soon withering. 

 Petals of a rich, chlorine yellow, the base of a deep brown, f Italy. 



