Anoda. MALVACK-K. 319 



i. 38, t. 10, 11, & Ic. V. t. 431 ; S.lilecht. LiniuL-a, xi. 20'> ; Oruy. (u-n. III. ii. G.J, 

 t. 124, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 21»7.' [K.vi>e(l by H. L. Roiun>on.J 



§ 1. EvANODA, Gray. Seed horizunUil ( niimitrly papillose and pulx-rulciit), 

 destitute of accessory coating or in one species with a very thin and fra;;ile vein- 

 less pellicle ; capsule much depressed an<l radiatiforni, of I) U» 20 dorsally iK-ak*-*! 

 or cuspidate (rarely pointless) carpels, the flat summit hirsut<* or hispicl : ••alyx- 

 lobes triangular or subovate, acute or acuminate : leaves v«-ry diverse in hauM! 

 species. — Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. 



* Corolla violet or jmrplo varying to white : calyx widely nproailiiiK under and mostly Bur- 

 passing the hispid fruit : herhage destitute or nearly soof stellular |iul>ewenre Imt variaMy 

 hirsute-hispid or his])idulous with usually sinij)le hristly iiairs, or else glabnitc : nhudcr 

 peduncles uearly all subtended by leaves. 



A.* lavaterioides, Mkdic. Lowest leaves cordati' and usually angnlate ; uiijkt dt-ltoij 

 or hastate ur suliiiilohate, the margins either irregularly dentate <irentire : |M-lals(iirnni<»iily 

 cuneiform and retuse, from a tliird to nearly an inch long: carpels 15 to 20, rather crjii«piiu- 

 ously beaked, the dorso-basal pijrtinn wholly thin-scarious an<l veinless and with slender mid- 

 nerve, tlie sides or partitions wholly ol)literated in the breaking up of the fruit ; wed naki^l, 

 puberuleut. — Mah. 1<); Huok. f. & Jackson, Index Kew. i. \:VJ. A. nistulu, .Sclih><ht. Lin- 

 na;a, xi. 210; Garcke in Hegel, Gartcnfl. xxxvi. 428. & in Kngl .lahrli. xxi..1H7. A.tnl<J>a 

 & .1. Dll/etiiaiia, Cav. Diss. i. 39, 40, t. 10, f. 3, & t. 11, f. 1. .1. Iia.tlala, V.ray, (Jen. III. ii. 1. 124, 

 PI. Wright, i. 20, ii. 23, & Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 298, not Cav. (Almtllon, luvatrnr Jlorr, 

 fructu cristato, Dill. Elth. i. 3, t. 2.) Sida cn'stitUi, L. Spec. ii. 68.5, exd. var. ; Curtis, Hot. 

 Mag. t. 330; Andr. Bot. Rop. t. 588. — S. Texas to Arizona. (Mex., S. Am., &4-.) I^-a\tit 

 exceedingly variable even uiurn the same individual. Our form usually has the up|»er leaver 

 elongated and conspicuou.sly hastate. 



A.* triangtllaris, DC Hispid-pubescent upon the younger parts, btit at length glabrite 

 below, 8 iuclies to 2 feet high: stem (often purplish-tinged) suberect, in well devel..|KMl 

 specimens with several ascending branches from near the ba.se: leaves typically <lelt«»id- 

 ovate, acute, more or less deeply and irregularly (renate-dentate. ratlu-r jiale gn-en. ghuice*- 

 cent beneath; the uppermost, rarely all, deltoid-lanccohite, more or les.s lixstate : flowers 

 much smaller than in the preceding species: petals only 3 or 4 lines long, ]>ale blue, litilo 

 exceeding the calyx : carpels 8 to 12; membranaceous .septa of the capsule either sub|R'r- 

 sistent at its base or (with the carpellary lining) loosely clinging to the seed. — PnHlr. i. 

 459; Schlecht. 1. c. 216; Garcke, 11. cc. -1. hrachi/nntha, Reichenb. Ic. Bot. Exot. t. .14. .1. 

 hastata, var. depnuperata, Gray, PI. Wrigiit. ii. 23. .1. Arizonica, Gray. Pnic. Am. Aca<l. 

 xxii. 298 (form with seeds more or less invested). Siila trianrjiJaris, Willd. Knnm. 725.— 

 Texas to Arizona. (Mex., where ace. to Ilartman n.'<ed .as a febrifuge; Lower C^ilif., 

 S. Am.) In identifying this and related species kindly a.ssisUnce h:w l»een rec-eivcd fn>ra 

 Professor Garcke. 



Var. * digitata, Robinson, n. comb. All but the lowest leaves hastatcly digitate, 

 with elongated lanceolate to linear middle lobe an.l a pair of b.xsi-later.il lobes on o.ich side. 

 — A. Arizonica, var. digitata, Gray, I. c. — S. Arizona, Lemmon, no. 517, coll. of 1881. 

 A.* hastAta, Cav. (.1. areri folia, DC. I.e.; Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 298, not 299) 



much resembles A. InvalrrioidrsAmt lias the upper part of fruiting carjx-ls coarj«ly reticulated 



at length bilamellar and clathr.ate. nearlv in the manner of the following. It m.ny ]>c exi.o<-to<l 



on our southern border. The yellow-fl<.wered j.lant, .a.«crilK«d to .1. I.ost.iia by Kobm^on & 



Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. xxix. 382, is probably a di.stinct species. 



# * Corolla yellow : calyx shorter-lobed, less explan:»te under the densely s«rllntchin.ut«» 

 fruit, which it moderately or hardly surpa.sses. (Here also A. l,u,n,J,iia. H-.k A Arn ) 



A Wrightii Grav. Erect. 2 to 5 feet high, visciduhnis-puberulent and nl^ve more or 

 'less villous-iii'rsute : lower leaves deltoi.i-ovato and upjH-r b.astatelanccolalc : pfKluoclc* 



> Ad.I r. <;. Il.ik.r, .I.'ur M't. xxx. 7-1. 



