MALVACEAE. 61 



IV. PAVOXIA. 



Calyx surrounded by a 5-15-leaved involucellum. 

 Stigma 10. Carpels 5, capsular, bivalved, 1 -seeded. 

 De Cand. 



Named, in honour of Don Jose Pavon, one of the authors of 

 the FLORA PERCVIAXA. 



1. Pavonia spinifex. Spine-fruited Pavonia. 



Leaves cordate acuminate coarsely and irregularly 

 dentate stellate-pubescent, peduncles axillary 1 -flow- 

 ered, carpels echinated with scabrous stiff reverted 

 spines. 



Cav. diss. III. 133. t. 45. f. 2. Willd. Sp, III. 834. Hi- 

 biscus spinifex, Jacq. Amer. 196. 



HAB. Limestone districts. Halberstadt, Port- Royal moun- 

 tains. Road from Springvale to St John's. 



FT.. September. 



A shrub about 5 feet in height : branches few, terete, traced 

 on one side with a line of pubescence, and also bearing distant 

 stellated hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cordate, acuminate, 

 irregularly toothed, stellato-hispid : petiole of the same length 

 as the leaf, stellato-hispid. Stipules linear, subulate. Pedun- 

 cles axillary, 1 -flowered, longer than the petiole, terete, pubes- 

 cent. Leaflets of the involucellum 8, lanceolate. Calyx 5- 

 partite; divisions ovate, 5-nerved, pilose. Corolla infundi- 

 buliform, yellow, more than 2 ce - the length of the calyx. Stig- 

 mata 5, bifid. Carpels 5, armed with three strong spines, one 

 of which is central and the other two external, furnished with 

 stiff reverted hairs or setae: seeds solitary, 3-quetrous. 



This plant appears to belong to var. y of De Candolle. It 

 is by no means a common plant. 



2. Pavonia typhalea. Indian Mallow. 



Leaves oblongo-lanceolate dentate, peduncles axil- 

 lary subterminal many-flowered, flowers conglobate. 



Urena typhalea, Linn. Mant. 258. Swartz, Obs. 294. Cav. 



diss. II. 134. and VI. 197 Pavonia typhalea, Willd. Sp. III. 



834. 



HAB. Common. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



Suffruticose, a foot and a half in height : branches few, com- 

 pressed, purpurascent, stellato-hispid. Leaves alternate, shortly 

 petiolate, stellato-hispid. Stipules \ an inch in length, linear. 



