Malva.] xxvi. MALVACEAE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 321 



4. 2M. parviflora, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 433 ; a spreading herb, slightly 

 downy, peduncles spreading after flowering, claw of petal glabrous. Boi*s. 

 Flor. Orient, i. 820. 



NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA, alt. 1-2000 ft., UPPER BENGAL, SINDH and the PANJAB. 

 DISTRIB. Europe, the Levant, Arabia, Nubia. 



A comparatively small spreading herb. Leaves roundish, obsoletely lobed ; peduncles 

 short. Bracteoles linear. Sepals broad, acute. Petals notched, scarcely exceeding the 

 sepals. Carpels wrinkled. 



3.* MAX.VASTR,U3*X, A. Gray. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Leaves entire or divided. Inflorescence axillary or 

 terminal. Bracteoles 3, narrow. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-parted. Petals longer 

 than the sepals. Staminal-tube antheriferous to the summit, with no' sterile 

 teeth. Ovary 5- or more-celled; styles as many as the carpels, stigmas 

 capitate. Ripe carpels separating from a short torus, indehiscent, 1-seeded, 

 beaked or not. ISeed ascending. DISTRIB. About 60 species, all American 

 and S. African except 2, which are widely distributed throughout the 

 tropics of both hemispheres. 



M. TRICUSPIDATUM, A. Gray PL Wright, 16 ; hairs simple, carpels with 

 three small projecting points. Malva tricuspidata, Ait. ; DC. Prodr. 

 i. 430. 



Various parts of BENGAL and MADRAS, introduced. DISTRIB. Tropics of both hemi- 

 spheres and Australia. 



An erect branching herb, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, irregularly toothed, 

 feather- veined. Petiole 1^ in. Peduncles 3-4 in. Bracteoles narrow. Calyx campanu- 

 late, 5-fid, lobes triangular acute. Petals yellow. Carpels 8-12, reniform. 



M. SPICATUM, A. Gray PI. Fendler, 22; hairs stellate, carpels rounded or 

 angular not beaked. Malva spicata, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 430. 



Various parts of India, introduced; MERGUI, Griffith. DISTRIB. Tropics of both hemi- 

 spheres. 



An erect herb, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves ovate, acute, erenate-serrate, sometimes lobed. 

 Flowers in a dense terminal leafy spike. Bracteoles narrow. Sepals acuminate. Petals 

 yellow. Carpels 8-12, pubescent. 



3.** ANODA, Cav. 



Hispid herbs. Leaves hastate-lobed. Flowers on long axillary peduncles. 

 Bracteoles 0. Calyx 5-parted, segments spreading. Petals 5. Stamin-al- 

 tube dividing into numerous filaments at the top. Ovary many-celled ; 

 styles as many as the cells of the ovary ; ovules 1 in each cell. Ripe 

 carpels separating from the axis, bursting irregularly, 1-seeded. DISTRIB. 

 An American genus of 8 species, not indigenous in India. 



A. HASTATA, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 458 ; thinly clothed with appressed 

 hairs, leaves ovate-cordate hastate 5-lobed, lobes deltoid central one 

 longest. 



Various places in NORTH-WESTERN INDIA and the WESTERN PENINSULA, but not in- 

 digenous DISTKJB. W. Indies, &c. 



A herb 2-3 ft. high, thinly beset with appressed hairs. Leaves 2-3 in. ; petioles 

 1 in. Stipules linear, \ in. long. Peduncles 4 in., 1 -flowered. Flowers U in. diara. 

 Sepals 5, broadly ovate, acute, spreading, connate at the base into a shallow tube. 

 Petals purple, longer than the sepals. 



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