270 MALVACEAE. 



divided into several or many filaments at the apex. Ovary 5-celled; ovules 1 

 in each cavity, pendulous; style-branches 5; stigmas capitate. Capsule de- 

 pressed-globose, 5-grooved, 3-5-valved. [Commemorates the French botanist 

 T. Bastard.] Six known species, of tropical America. Type species: Bas- 

 tardia parvifolia H.B.K. 



1. Bastardia viscdsa (iL.) H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 256. 1822. 

 Sida viscosa L. Syst. ed. 10, 1145. 1759. 



Finely velvety-pubescent and viscid, sometimes also pilose, erect, branched, 

 3-7 dm. high. Leaves ovate, 16 cm. long, acute or acuminate at the apex, 

 cordate at the base, irregularly denticulate, the slender petioles as long as the 

 blades or shorter; pedicels nearly filiform, longer than the petioles, often 

 longer than the leaves, rarely not longer than the calyx ; calyx about 4 mm. long, 

 its 5, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate teeth about as long as the tube ; petals yellow, 

 4-5 mm. long; capsule about as long as the calyx, its carpel-valves beakless. 



Waste lands, Eleuthera and Long Island : West Indies ; Mexico to Colombia 

 and Peru. Hitchcock's plant referred to this species is Sida glutinosa Comm. VISCID 

 BASTARDIA. 



7. PAVONIA Cav. Diss. 3: 132. 1787. 



Shrubs or shrubby herbs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, angled or lobed. 

 Flowers perfect, commonly solitary on axillary peduncles. Involucel of 5-15 

 bractlets. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5. Carpels 5, 1-celled; styles 10; stigmas 

 capitate; ovules solitary. Mature carpels separating from axis, 1-3-spined 

 on the back, more or less deeply 2-valved. Seeds solitary, ascending. [In 

 honor of Joseph Pavon, Spanish botanist and explorer.] Sixty species or more, 

 mostly of tropical distribution, the following typical. 



1. Pavonia spinifex (L.) Cav. Diss. 3: 133. 1787. 

 Hibiscus spinifex L. Syst. ed. 10, 1149. 1759. 



A branching shrub, 1-3 m. tall, hirsute and strigillose. Leaves ovate or 

 oblong-ovate, 5-10 cm. long, acute or somewhat acuminate, doubly crenate- 

 dentate, truncate or subcordate at the base, the petioles densely pubescent; 

 peduncles axillary, much longer than the petioles; bractlets of the involucel 5, 

 linear to lanceolate, acute, nearly 1 cm. long; calyx about as long as the 

 bractlets, its lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; petals yellow, 2.5 cm. long, 

 cuneate; carpels 5-6 mm. high, with 1 medial and 2 lateral retrorsely barbed 

 awns. 



Waste lands. New Providence and Long Island : Bermuda ; South Carolina to 

 Florida ; the West Indies and tropical continental America. PAVONIA. 



8. MALACHE B. Vogel; Trew, PI. Sel. 50. 1772. 



Tall shrubs or small trees, with alternate broad, lobed or nearly entire 

 leaves, and large peduncled flowers solitary in the axils. Involucre of several 

 bractlets. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5, broad. Carpels mostly 5, 1-celled; styles 

 10. Ovules solitary. Carpels 2-valved, knobbed on the back, not spined, 

 coriaceous, tardily dehiscent. [Greek, mallow.] Three known species, the fol- 

 lowing, and one in Jamaica. Type species: M.olaclie scabra B. Vogel. 



Stamen-column not longer than the corolla. 1. M. scabra. 



Stamen-column twice as long as the corolla. 2. M. bahamensis. 



