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5. MALVA L. Mallow. 



Annual or perennial herbs with orbicular or reniform, sometimes obscurely lobed 

 or crenate leaves; flowers axillary, solitary or in small clusters; calyx with 3 or 2 

 distinct bracts; carpels numerous, 1-celled, reniform when mature, beakless, disposed 

 around the axis in a disklike fruit. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Margins of the leaves crisped; plants erect 3. M. crispa. 



Margins of the leaves not crisped; plants erect or prosti'ate. 



Stems erect; calyx reflexed in fruit 1. M. parvijlora. 



Stems prostrate ; calyx not reflexed in fi-uit 2. M. rotundifolia. 



1. Malva parviflora L. Amoen. Acad. 3: 416. 1756. 

 Type locality: Not stated. 



Range: A native of the Old World, introduced in the southern and western United 

 States. 



New Mexico: Santa Fe; Pecos; Kingston; Las Cruces; Teel; Capitan; Taos; Las 

 Vegas; ^\lute Mountains. Upper Sonoran Zone. 



2. Malva rotundifolia L. Sp. PI. 688. 1753. Common mallow. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Europae ruderatis, viis, plateis." 



New Mexico: Mangas Springs; Kingston; Raton; Santa Fe; Gallinas Planting 

 Station. 

 A weed in waste ground. 



3. Malva crispa L. Sp. PL ed. 2. 970. 1763. Cukled mallow. 

 Malva verticillata crispa L. Sp. PL 689. 1753. 



Type locality: Not stated. 



New Mexico: Tularosa; Shiprock. 



6. GAYOIDES Small. 



Slender perennial herb with the aspect of Abutilon, but the carpels with very thin 

 membranous walls and rounded at the apex rather than acute or beaked. 



1. Gayoides crispum (L.) Small, FL Southeast. U. S. 764. 1903. 

 Sida crispa L. Sp. PI. 685. 1753. 

 Abutilon crispum Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 1. 53. 1827. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Carolina, Providentia, Bahama." 

 Range: Florida to New Mexico and Arizona, and throughout the tropica. 

 New Mexico: Bishops Cap (TFooton). Dry hills. 



7. ABUTILON Gaertn. Indian mallow. 



Erect or decumbent, stout or slender, densely pubescent, herbaceous perennials, 

 with simple cordate leaves and axillary flowers; calyx not bracteate; corolla red or 

 yellow; carpels 5 to 10, leathery, beaked or rounded, dehiscent, 2 to several-seeded, 

 6 mm. high or more. 



KEY TO the species. 



Carpels short-beaked or at least acute; stems slender, prostrate or 



ascending 1. A. parvulum. 



Carpels rounded at the apex; stems stout and erect. 



Leaves not lobed, as broad as long; sepals 8 mm. long 2. A. malacum. 



Leaves more or less 3-lobed, longer than broad; sepals not more 



than 5 mm. long 3. A. texense. 



