Sphmralcea. MALVACK.E. 



313 



M. COCCineum, Gray. A span or two hiK»i. tufted, Bomewhat Milvcrv-caiiCM-cnt, the 

 I-iilMsceii. .- of til.- calyx looser, even somewhat villous : leaves ineh or l.-ss iii diameter ' the 

 cuj.tatf or iiarn.wer divisions mostly I'-M-.Iefl int.. spatnlale or linear 1..Ik-s tlowen. M.ort- 

 pedicelled, crow.led or at length looser in a terminal leafv-l.ase.l ra.eme : eah x1..»m-s lan.e.- 

 late-tnangular, in age ineurve.l over the fruit : petals cj-per-searlet or t.ri. kri-.| _ I'l Fendl 

 21, 24 (partly), I'l. Wright, i. 17 (with var. dUse.ium, whi.li is merely the m..^l narr..w-le«vwl 

 form), (Jen. 111. ii. t. 121. ^ Man. ed. 5. 101. M.,lvn rorri,,,,,. Suit.' in Knu.er. Cat.. & (i,,,. 

 n. 81. Cnslanu n.rcua, Pursh, Fl. ii. 453; Sims, But. Mag. t. ir.::j. >„/„ r.^riura \)V 

 Prodr, i. 465; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 108.1 .y. diBsrrta, Nutt. in Torr. & (iniv Fl i 215 • 

 Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. .327, tho narrower-leaved form. - Plains from the S:u.katrhe*«n 

 and W. Iowa to W. Texas, thence west to S. Arizona and E. ()reg..n ;» first coll. I.y A'i///«// 

 A tall form with broad-lobed leaves has been called var.« elaUim, by E. G. Baker Jour 

 Bot. xxix. 171. ' ' ■ 



Species of doubtful affinity, not seen by the editor. 

 M.* Orbiculatum, Ghkkne. " Suffrutescent, the stout, erect, and simple branches 2 t.. .1 

 feet high; whole jdant densely tomentose : leaves sh..rtpeti..h-d, 1 to 2 inches long an.l as 

 broad, the lower and smaller rouud-reniform, the n|)per orbicular, not even ol.scur.-lv h.l.ed 

 but coarsely creiiate, very obtuse or slightly retuse : flowers many, nearly sessile and dens<dv 

 glomerate in the axils of the upj.er leaves and at almost leafless" subterminal no<les : bract- 

 lets setaceous, much shorter than the lanceolate acuminate ileep calyxIol>es : con.lla deep 

 rose-color, 6 lines long or more: fruit unknown." — Fl. Francis. lO'J (whence de»cr.).— 

 "Mountains south of Tehachapi, Kern Co.," Calif., (,'ieene. 



8. SPH-<ERALCEA, St. Hil. (Scjbaipa, a sphere, <i\K(a, a mallow, tlie 

 fruit comiiioiilj splierical.) — PI. Us. Bras. t. 52, & Fl. Hra.s. Mrri.l. i. 2U'.l ; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 69, t. 127, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 2'Jl ; Ik-iith. & Hook. 

 Gen. i. 294 (excl. Meliphlea, Zucc.).^ — Herbs or suffrutico.se plants (American 

 with one or two S. African), with habit of Malvastrum and Abutilon, founded on 

 S.Cisplatina of Buenos Ayres. The first division confluent with the sirond on 

 one hand, with Malvastrum on the other. 



* Fruit usually more or less globose-depressed: ovules 1 or 2, the ujijier .>;el«l..m m.ituring: 

 mature carpels more or less reniform, tomentulo.se or glabrate, and with thin and snicK>lh 

 summit or upper half usually empty, at maturity directly .leci.Iuous from the axis, only 

 upper part bivalvular- or intror.se-dehiscent ; lower and seminiferous portion strongly and 

 firmly reticulated over the thin or diaphanous sides : pereunial herbs except perhajw the 

 first. 



-I- Root simple, apparently winter-annual : short scarious summit t.f mature larpel inflexcd. 

 S. Coulteri, Gkay. Canescent on younger parts, when ol.ier rather loos(-ly stelIuIar-pulK»s- 

 cciit and becoming greenish: stems about a foot high, numerous, a.scending from the tap 

 root: leaves roundish-.subcordate, seldom inch long, (tb.scurely or more di.stinctiv 3-lol>e<l, 

 incisely or doubly crenate : flowers clustered in axils ami racemose at sununit, short|iedi- 

 celled: calyx barely 3 lines long : petals quarter or third inch long, orange scarlet : rar|K'ls 

 15 to 20, at maturity over a line long, flat, reniform in outline from the strong incurvation 

 of the quadrate-oblong scarious em])ty apex, 1-ovuled. the thin seminiferous Unly aliM» 

 scarious but strongly reticulated and as if fcnestr.ite throughout, the firm meshe?* dark 

 colored. — Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 291. S. Feiidlrri, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 39. mainly. 

 Malvastrum Coulleri, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 125; Brew. & Wat,««. B..t. Calif, i. 85 (thin 

 projection within carpel not found).* — W. Arizona, on and near the Cila, first coll. by Th. 



1 Add syn. Malveopm coccinen, Kuntzc. 1. c. 



2 Northwest to Kamloops Lake, Brit. Culiinibia, ace. to J. M. Macoun. 

 8 Add K. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. xxxi. .'tOI. 



* Add Pvn. .}falvtopsis mullijiorum, Greene, Fl. Francis. 1(19. Mulvtoptit CnulUri, Kuntzr, Rrr 

 Gen. i. 72. " 



