MALVACEAE 249 



Malvastrum peruvianum, A. Gray. 



Hypocotyl erect, terete, minutely pubescent, 1-5-2 cm. long, 

 light green or colourless. 



Cotyledons cordate, obtuse, unequal, petiolate, entire, glabrous, 

 dark green ; venation distinct, pinnatinerved, giving the cotyledon 

 almost a variegated appearance. 



Stem, primary internodes undeveloped. 



First leaves suborbicular, simple, cauline, alternate, crenate or 

 rather bluntly serrated, petiolate, stipulate, pubescent, light green, 

 pinnatinerved, wrinkled. 



Sida fallax, Walp. 



Hypocotyl suffrutescent, erect, terete, finely pubescent, pale 

 green, 1-5 cm. long. 



Cotyledons petiolate ; petiole terete, -channelled, pubescent, 

 5 mm. long ; lamina broadly ovate, obtuse, pubescent, pale green, 

 8 mm. long, 8 mm. broad near the base. 



Stem suffrutescent, erect, terete, thickened upwards, finely 

 pubescent, pale green ; 1st internode 2 mm. long ; 2nd 2-5 mm. ; 

 3rd 4 mm. ; 4th 8 mm. ; 5th 1'25 cm. ; 6th 1-4 cm. ; 7th 1-8 cm. 



Leaves cauline, simple, alternate, stipulate, petiolate, glabrous 

 above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, ciliate ; petioles subterete, 

 flattened above, densely pubescent ; stipules filiform, slender, hairy, 

 deciduous. 



No. 1. Rotund-cordate, coarsely serrate-dentate ; limb 1-2 cm. 

 long, 1-1 cm. broad. 



No. 2. Cordate, irregularly dentate-serrate, penninerved, or sub- 

 palmatinerved at the base. 



No. 3. Rotund-cordate dentate-serrate ; nervation like No. 2. 



No. 4. Cordate, dentate-serrate. 



No. 5. Rotund-cordate, obtuse, coarsely dentate-serrate, more 

 decidedly palmately five-nerved at the base. 



No. 6. Similar to last but larger. 



No. 7. Rotund-cordate, obtusely dentate-serrate or crenate-ser- 

 rate, strongly palmately five-nerved at the base, and strongly penni- 

 nerved upwards with subopposite nerves. 



No. 8. Similar, but undeveloped when examined. 



Abutilon asiaticum, Don. 



Hypocotyl soon becoming woody, erect, terete, hairy, and glan- 

 dular-pubescent, pale green, about 2-2 cm. above the soil. 



