88 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Malrn. 



1. Malva, Linn. 



Pubescent herbs. Leaves lobed. Flowers axillary, solitary or 

 clustered, pedicelled. Bracteoles 3. Staminal tube divided at 

 the top into numerous antheriferous filaments. Ovary many- 

 celled ; ovules 1 in each cell ; styles as many as the cells, filiform. 

 Cocci forming a round depressed fruit, separating when ripe from 

 each other and from the axis, indehiscent, muticous. 



Flowers 1-5 in. across, purple, on long peduncles; plant erect; petals 



5 tinies as long as the sepals 1. *ylve*tris. 



Flowers not more than *5 in. across, shortly stalked; petals scarcely 



exceeding the sepals: 



Erect plant with bluish flowers in dense axillary clusters ; carpels 



rounded at the edge 2. verticillata. 



Low spreading plant with whitish flowers, few together on short 

 peduncles in the leaf-axils ; carpels with interlocking teeth ; petal-claws 

 glabrous 3 . parviftora. 



1. MALVA SYLVESTRIS, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 320. M. mauritiana, 

 DC.; W. &A. 45. 



Mysore (Heyne 1800) ; Madras (Bulkley 1703), a weed of 

 cultivation. 



2. MALVA VERTICILLATA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 320. M. rotundifolia, 

 Wt. Ic. t. 950 (not of Linn.). M. neilglierrensis, Wt. Ic. t. 950 

 (in text). 



Nilgiris, Kotagiri, 6,000 ft. (Wight), a weed of cultivation. 



3. MALVA PARVIFLORA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 321. 



Mysore, Madura (Wall. Cat. 1884 /). 



2. Malvastrum, A. Gray. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves entire or lobed. Flowers axillary or 

 in a leafy terminal spike ; bracteoles 3, narrow. Calyx cup-shaped, 

 5-parted. Petals longer than the sepals. Staminal tube bearing 

 anthers on the outside up to the top. Ovary 5- or more- celled ; 

 styles as many as the cells ; stigmas capitate. Cocci free at 

 maturity, indehiscent, 1-seeded. Seeds ascending. 



MALVASTRUM COROMANDELIANUM, Garcke. M. tricuspidatum, A. 

 Gray ; F. B. I. i. 321. Malva coromandeliana, Linn. Sp. PL 687. 

 A small erect branched shrub ; stem and branches covered 

 with stiff appressed hairs. 

 Madras, Kurnool, etc., a weed of roadsides and waste places. 



