1972 



MALACOTHRIX 



MALORTIEA 



MALACOTHRIX (Greek words, meaning soft hair). 

 Composite. Annual and perennial herbs of W. N. 

 Amer., one of which is listed; species probably 20: 

 leafy-stemmed or scapose, usually with a radical cluster 

 of Ivs. : heads yellow, white or pinkish, peduncled, 

 usually nodding in bud; receptacle naked or bristly; 

 fls. all ligulate, hermaphrodite: achene short, terete, 

 ribbed, with soft pappus-bristles. M. californica, DC. 

 Annual, acaulescent, bearing single rather large light 

 yellow heads on scapes 4-6 in. high: Ivs. prominently 

 woolly when young, pinnatifid, the lobes linear to 

 almost filiform: involucre-bracts narrow-linear or 

 subulate, in about 3 series. Sandy soils, Calif. 



L. H. B. 



MALAY APPLE: Eugenia Jambos. 



MALCOMIA (Wm. Malcolm, English horticulturist 

 of the eighteenth century) . Also written Malcolmia, but 

 it was originally spelled Malcomia. Crutiferae. Flower- 

 garden annuals. 



Malcomia is a genus of branching herbs, the branches 

 often prostrate: Ivs. alternate, entire or pinnatifid: fls. 

 white, purplish or reddish, in a loose raceme; petals 

 long and linear or long-clawed : pods rather terete, long 

 or awl-shaped; seeds in 1 series or in 2 series at the base 

 of the cells, not marginate. Species about 30, Medit. 

 region. 



maritima, R. Br. VIRGINIAN STOCK. MAHON STOCK. 

 Figs. 2305, 2306. St. erect, branching: Ivs. elliptic, 

 obtuse, entire, narrowed at the base, pubescence 

 appressed, 2-4-parted : pedicels rather shorter than the 

 calyx; fls. shades of lilac and red to white, the limb 

 veined: pods pubescent, long-acuminate at the apex. 

 Medit. region. B.M. 166 (as Cheiranthus maritimus, 

 showing red fls., changing to purple before fading). 

 J.H. III. 59:30. It is a charming hardy annual of the 

 easiest cult, growing about a foot high, with a more 

 branching and open habit than the common stock 

 (Matthiola), and 4-petaled fls. each about %in. across. 

 Red, white and crimson-fid, kinds are offered in Amer., 

 while rose and lilac fls. appear in the mixtures. There 

 seem to be no double forms. It is an excellent plant 

 for the front of a border, as it may be easily had in 



2305. Malcomia maritima. Virginian stock, Crimson King. 



bloom from spring to fall by means of successional sow- 

 ings. Seeds are best sown in the fall, as they give ear- 

 lier bloom. Seeds may be sown thinly. 



M. bicolor, Boiss. & Heldr. Low, about 6 in., pubescent: Ivs. 

 oblong-lanceolate to ovate, nearly entire: fls. pink, yellowish at 

 base. Mountains, Greece. Gt. 1 : 226. M. littdrea, R. Br. Six to 

 12 in.: Ivs. hoary, lance-linear, nearly entire: fls. large, pink-purple, 

 the spreading limb not prominently veined. W. Medit. region. 



WILHELM MILLER. 



L. H. B.f 



MALLOTUS (Greek, woolly, from the long white 

 spines on the fruit of some species). Euphorbiacese. 

 Trees or shrubs, some rarely cultivated for their 



economic products, but very little known as horticul- 

 tural subjects. 



Leaves alternate or in a few species opposite, broad, 

 simple, palmately nerved: fls. dioecious, small, in spikes 

 or panicles; calyx valvate or imbricate; no petals, disk 

 or rudiment of ovary in the 

 staminate fls.; stamens numer- 

 ous, anther-cells oblong; the 3 

 styles almost free at base, elon- 

 gated; ovules 1 in each cell: caps, 

 separating into 2-3 parts. 

 About 80-90 species in the Old 

 World tropics. Related to Mer- 

 curialis and Macaranga. 



jap6nicus, Muell. Arg. (Rott- 

 lera japdnica, Spreng.). A small, 

 rather scurfy tree with large, 

 ovate, alternate, glabrous or 

 glandular, subtrilobed, reddish 

 Ivs.: spikes branched, terminal; 

 fls. 2-3 lines wide; stamens 

 60-70: caps. ^in. diam., pubes- 

 cent with weak prickles. Japan 

 and China. R.H. 1894, p. 103. 



philippinensis, Muell. Arg. 

 MONKEY-FACE TREE. KAMILA 

 TREE. Lys. broadly ovate, 

 rough, entire or nearly so, alter- 

 nate: caps, not prickly but 

 covered with red-brown glands 

 which furnish the kamila (or 

 kamala) dye of commerce, used 

 in dyeing silks. India to Austral. 



J. B. S. NORTON. 2306 - Malcomia 



maritima. (X/i) 



MALLOW: Malva rotundifolia, and other species. 

 MALLOW, FALSE: Mahastrum. 



MALOPE (name used by Pliny for some kind of 

 mallow). Malvaceae. Flower-garden annuals. 



Glabrous or pilose herbs, with entire or 3-parted 

 alternate lys., and peduncled often showy violet or 

 pink or white axillary fls. subtended by 3 large cordate 

 distinct bracts: calyx 5-parted; column of stamens 

 divided at the top into many filaments : carpels numer- 

 ous, 1-seeded, congested into a head, indehiscent. 

 About a dozen species have been described, probably 

 reducible to 3, in the Medit. region. They are of 

 simple cult, in any ordinary garden soil; sow early. 



trifida, Cav. Fig. 2307. Plant 2-3 ft. high, bearing 

 rose and purple fls. 2-3 in. across, the center usually 

 darker, blooming most of the summer: Ivs. 3-nerved, 

 3-lobed, dentate, glabrous; lobes acuminate: peduncles 

 axillary, 1-fld. Spain, N. Afr. Gn.W. 25:584. H.U. 

 2:166. Var. grandifldra, Paxt. (M. grandiflora, F. G. 

 Dietr.), is said to be superior to the type, with fls. 

 large, deep rosy red, veined inside darker. Gn. 21, p. 

 145. P.M. 1:177. G.W. 15, p. 215. Var. alba, Hort., 

 has white fls. Var. rosea, Hort., has rose-colored fls. 

 G. 27:563. Seeds are offered separately in white, rose 

 and red. 



malacoides, Linn. An old garden annual, but appar- 

 ently not now cult, to any extent: 1-3 ft.: Ivs. oblong- 

 ovate to lanceolate, crenate or pinnatifid, tapering or 

 cordate at base: fls. large, purple- violet, solitary. Var. 

 rosea, Hort., has rose-red fls. S. Eu., Asia Minor. 



L. H. B. 



MALORTIEA (E. von Malortie, Germany). Pal- 

 macese. A small group of diminutive palms of Cent. 

 Amer., by some authorities referred to Reinhardtia as a 

 subgenus, with 6-12 stamens. They are spineless plants, 

 with alternate Ivs. which are simple or 2-lobed at the 

 end, margins entire or dentate or erose on the ends: fls. 

 unisexual, in branched spadices or spikes that arise 



