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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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placed upon stands in the dry-stove in winter, where they 

 may be kept in a temperate warmth ; in which they will 

 thrive much better than in a greater heat. They must be 

 watered two or three times a week, while placed in the dry- 

 stove; but it must not be given to them in large quantities. 



2. Malpighia Punicifolia ; Pomegranate-leaved Barbadoes 

 Cherry. Loaves ovate, quite entire, smooth ; peduncles one- 

 flowered. This rises with a shrubby stalk, ten or twelve feet 

 high, dividing into several slender spreading branches, 

 covered with a light brown bark ; corolla 'pale rose-coloured. 

 Native of the West Indies. 



3. Malpighia Nitida; Shining-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. 

 Leaves lanceolate, quite entire, smooth ; spikes lateral. This 

 is a shrub, six feet high; stem upright, round, even; branches 

 decussated, upright, round, covered with a shining bark; 

 flowers peduncled, yellow. Native of the West Indies. 



4. Malpighia Faginea. Leaves oblong-ovate, entire, silky, 

 shining underneath ; peduncles three-parted, umbelled. 

 Native of the West Indies. 



5. Malpighia Lucida. Leaves obovate, wedge-form, quite 

 entire, nerveless, shining ; peduncles terminating, many-flow- 

 ered. Native of the West Indies. 



6. Malpighia Urens ; Stinging Barbadoes Cherry. Leaves 

 oblong-ovate, with rigid decumbent bVistles underneath ; 

 peduncles one-flowered, aggregate. This shrub rises with a 

 strong upright stem about three feet high, covered with a 

 brown bark, sending out several side-branches, which grow 

 erect. Native of the West India Islands. 



7. Malpighia Angustifolia ; Narrow-leaved Barbadoes 

 Cherry. Leaves linear-lanceolate, with rigid decumbent 

 bristles on both sides ; peduncles umbelled. Stalk shrubby, 

 seven or eight feet high. Native of the West Indies. 



8. Malpighia Crassifolia ; Thick-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. 

 Leaves ovate, quite entire, tomentose underneath ; racemes 

 terminating. -Native of the West India Islands and Guiana. 



9. Malpighia Coriacea. Leaves ovate, acute, entire, smooth 

 on both sides ; racemes terminating, spiked. This tree rises 

 frequently to the height of thirty or forty feet, or more. 

 Native of Jamaica, where it is common on the lower hills of 

 Liguanea. Brown calls it the Locust Berry Tree. 



10. Malpighia Canescens; Downy-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. 

 Leaves oblong, blunt, pubescent; racemes axillary, com- 

 pound. Native of the West Indies. 



11. Malpighia V'erbascifolia; Mullein-leaved Barbadoes 

 Cherry. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, tomentose, quite entire; 

 racemes terminating. Native of South America. 



12. Malpighia Aquifolia; Holly-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. 

 Leaves lanceolate, tooth-spiny, hispid underneath. Found 

 in the isle of Cuba. 



13. Malpighia Coccigera. Leaves subovate, tooth-spiny. 

 Stalk thick and woody, two or three feet high. Native of 

 the West Indies. 



14. Malpighia Martinicensis. Leaves ovate, with decum- 

 bent rigid bristles underneath. A small tree ; found by 

 Jacquin in Martinico. 



15. Malpighia Diphylla. Leaves oval, smooth; racemes 

 terminating. An upright shrub, eight feet high : flowers 

 yellow; berries red. Found near Carthagena. 



16. Malpighia Odorata. Leaves ovate, emarginate, tomen- 

 tose on both sides ; racemes axillary. It is an upright shrub, 

 eight feet high ; flowers sweet, smelling like those of yellow 

 Lupine; petals yellow; berries orange-coloured. Found near 

 Carthagena. 



17. Malpighia Grandifolia. Leaves lanceolate-oblong; 

 racemes corymbed, axillary. This is a small tree, ten feet 

 high, upright. Native of Martinico. 



18. Malpighia Altissima. Leaves lanceolate, ferruginous 

 underneath, smooth above, quite entire; racemes terminating, 

 upright. This tree is thirty feet high, or more, with an 

 upright trunk, and a pyramidal elegant head ; flowers yellow, 

 sweet, in long racemes, not unlike those of the Horse Chest- 

 nut. Berries yellow, acid, but not unpleasant. The wood 

 is white. It is common in Martinico, where the natives call 

 it Bois Tan, the bark being fit for tanning leather. 



Malva ; a genus of the class Monadelphia, order Polyan- 

 dria. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth double; 

 outer three-leaved, narrower ; leaflets cordate, acute, per- 

 manent ; inner one-leafed, half five-cleft, larger, broader, 

 permanent. Corolla : petals five, obcordate, prcemorse, flat, 

 fixed to the tube of the stamina at the base. Stamina: fila- 

 menta numerous, united below into a tube, seceding, and 

 loose at the top and surface of it ; antheree kidney-form. Pis- 

 til: germen orbicular; style cylindric, short; stigmas very 

 many, bristly, the length of the style. Pericarp: capsule 

 roundish, composed of very many cells, (as many as there are 

 stigmas,) two-valved, placed in a whorl about a columnar 

 receptacle, finally falling. Seeds : solitary, very seldom two 

 or three, kidney-form. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Calijc : 

 double: outer three-leaved. Capsule: many, united in a 

 depressed whorl, one-celled, one-seeded. Sow the seeds of 

 the hardy sorts at the end of March, upon a bed of fresh light 

 earth; and when the plants are three or four inches high, 

 transplant them where they are to continue, allowing them 

 sufficient space. They appear best when intermixed with 

 other flowers of the same growth. The seeds may also be 

 sown in August, on a dry soil, and these plants will grow larger 

 and flower sooner than those which are sown in the spring : 

 or, if the seeds be permitted to scatter, they will come up, 

 and thrive equally with those which are sown. The seeds of 

 those species which come from hot countries, must be sown 

 upon a hot-bed in the spring. When the plants are fit to 

 remove, plant each in a small pot filled with light fresh earth, 

 and plunge them into a new hot-bed, shading them until they 

 have taken fresh root; then admit free air to them in pro- 

 portion to the warmth of the season, and at the end of June 

 they may be placed in the open air in a sheltered situation, 

 where they will flower, and produce ripe seeds. Some species 



require the protection of the bark-stove. The species are, 



* With undivided Leaves. 



1. Malva Spicata ; Spiked Mallow. Leaves cordate, do- 

 nate, tcmentose; spikes oblong, rough-haired. Stem pale 

 green, two or three feet high, branched; flowers orange-co- 

 loured, in a thick spike, with very hirsute calyxes. It flowers 

 in September and October. Native of Jamaica. 



2. Malva Tomentosa ; Downy-leaved Mallow. Leaves 

 cordate, crenate, tomentose; flowers lateral, heaped; stem 

 shrubby; petals short; stamina five; styles many. Native 

 of the East Indies and Cochin-china. 



3. Malva Gangetica; Indian Mallow. Leaves cordate, 

 obtuse, rugged; flowers sessile, glomerate; arils ten, awnless, 

 crenulate. Flowers yellow. -Native of India. 



4. Malva Coromandeliana ; Cnromandel Mallow. Leaves 

 oblong or cordate, serrate ; peduncles axillary ; flowers 

 glomerate; arils cusped ; stem a foot high, round, hispid. 

 Common in Jamaica, among grass. 



5. Malva Scoparia ; Small ^fellow -flowered Upright Mal- 

 low. Leaves ovate, crenate-serrate ; flowers axillary, clus- 

 tered ; stems shrubby ; branches rod-like. This is a shrub, 

 a fathom in height ; flowers yellow, marked with red spots. 

 The Spaniards of South America call it Escoba Cimarrona, or 

 Wild Broom ; they make common besoms of the branches. 

 Native of Peru. 



