MALVACE/E. 59 



1. Malachra capitatu. Hirsute Malachra. 



Leaves subrotimd cordate obsoletely lobed toothed, 

 peduncle axillary short bearing 7 flowers within a 3- 

 leaved involucre, stem hirsute. 



Malva aspera major aquatica, Sloane, I. 217, t. 147. f. 1. 



HAB. Bath, St Thomas in the East. Ferry road. Sea-side 

 at Rockfort. 



FL. End of the year. 



Stem 3-5 feet in height, erect, branched, terete, hirsute 

 with strigoso-spinescent hairs, with a tomentose line passing 

 upwards from the axil of each leaf. Leaves subrotund, cordate, 

 obsoletely lobed, acute at the apex as also the lobes, irregularly 

 toothed, 5-nerved, hirsute, and also stellato-pubescent especially 

 along the under surface of the nerves : petiole compressed, hir- 

 sute, with a line of tomentose hairs along the upper surface. 

 Stipules ^-1 inch long, setaceous, hirsute. Peduncles axillary, 

 13 together, not so long as the petiole, each bearing 7 flowers 

 in a head. Involucre 3-leaved ; leaves petioled, cordate, acu- 

 minate, entire, nerved, hirsute ; each of them furnished at the 

 petiole with a pair of linear strigose inch-long leaflets. Flowers 

 yellow, subsessile. Calyx 5-fid ; segments lanceolate, 3-nerved, 

 ciliated. -Petals 5, nearly 2 ce the length of the calyx, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, rounded at the apex, ciliated, veined. Co- 

 lumn of stamens hirsute : anthers :c . Style 10-fid, recurved. 

 Carpels 5, united to form an orbicular depressed capsule, gla- 

 brous, scrobiculate : seeds one in each carpel. 



A coarse weed. Shuts its flowers at mid-day. The hairs 

 stiff and somewhat stinging. 



III. URENA. 



Calyx surrounded by a 5-fid involucellum (5 leaf- 

 lets united for half their length). Anthers at the 

 apex of the tube of the stamens. Carpels capsular, 

 .5, connivent, 1 -seeded, generally echinated externally 

 with prickles radiating at their apex. De Cand. 



Leaves usually glandulose on the under surface. Name, 

 from the word common in Malabar to designate this genus. 



1. Urena reticulata. Reticulated Urena. 



Lower leaves roundish sub-3-lobate cordate, the 

 upper ones ovate, angulated irregularly serrated his- 

 pid above stellato-hirsute reticulated and uniglandu- 

 lose beneath, involucellum 5-7-fid somewhat longer 

 than the calyx. 



