Abufdon. MAI.VACK.K. 327 



wool, cordate leaves, and axillary or panKulatc flowers, the peuils ronimonly 

 yellow; fl. summer and autumn. — Inst. 'J'.*, t. 2 .'> ; Ga;rtn. Kru«t. ii. 2.'j1, u \'6b ; 

 HBK. Nov. Gen. & Spec. v. 270; Gray, G<n. Ill, ii. Oj, i. 125, 120." 



§ 1. Carpels in fruit coriaceous or cliartiiceous, not v«si<ular. nmre or Ichh 

 divergent or spreading at .summit ami mostly cuspiilatt; or nuurunat*- l»a<k of 

 the proper apex. 



* Indian Mallows, introduced species, tall and large: cariK-lH numcroux (II to .10), nitwtlv 

 several-see(Ie<l, forniiug a broad capsule, liirsnie at top, liiilf imli to inrji long. ea<ii 

 hanging by thread when at length detached from the axis: leaveH cordate, aLuniinato, 

 from rcpand serrulate to crenaic-dentate, long-petioled. — Ueloere, Shuttl. in Graj, I'l. 

 Wright, i. 21. 



A.* TukophkAsti, Medic.^ (Vklvkt-leaf.) Velvety and cinereoas with very nhort and 

 fine soft wuolliuess, annual: peduncles shorter than peticdes: calyx very de<-ply .Vpart«-d, 

 half tlie length of the awn-beaked capsule: petals yellow, i|uarter inch long. — .Malv. 28; 

 E. G. Eaker, Juur. Bot. xxxi. 214. A. Aricetma-, (Jartn. 1. c. Sidn Ahutilon, L. Spec. ii. 

 685; Schk. Ilandb. t. 190. — A common weed in wa.ste and cult, grounds, Maine to North 

 Carolina, and westward at least to Kansas and Nebraska.' (Nat. from Eu., Asia.) 



A. tNDiciM, Sweet,* var. nfisTiM, Griseb. Frutescent, velvety-cane.sccnt with sliort fine wool- 

 liness and branches hirsute or villous with clammy spreading hairs : [)eilun( les e<|ualliiig or 

 shorter than petioles: carpels 15 to 30 in a gloliular capsule, little surpaj»siiig the calyx, 

 barely mucronate: petals yellow, conunonly purple at base, half inch or more long. — Fl. 

 W. Ind. 78. A. fiirlum, vSweet, Hort. Hrit. i. 53; Don, Syst. i. tMl. A. qiamJeus, Wight 

 & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. .06. Si,la hirta, Lnm. Diet. i. 7; Heichenb. Ic. jlot. Exot. ii. \U'i. 

 Beloere cistijlorn, Shuttl. in distr. ])1. Hugel, 94. — Key West, Ihujel, and perhaps el.««whcre.* 

 (Nat. from W. Ind. and Ind.) 



A. pkdunculAre, HBK. Velvety-tomento.-!e and under face of leaves very canesceiit, the 

 branches and stalks villous or hirsute: peduncles eiiuailing or surpa.>.sing the petioles (2 to 

 4 inches long) : calyx deeply .5-cleft and with reduidicate-angled base; lobes ov.ite : p4>talit 

 rose-color, half inch or more long, little longer than the calyx : capsule with mucronato 

 divergent beaks. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. v. 273, Jide Griseb. 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 609. 

 Sidii I/iilseana, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 2.J3 (imjierfect sjKcimfii), therefore Ahutilon Iltilsfunum, 

 Torr. in Gray, PI. Fendl. 23 ; Chapm. Fl. 56. — S. Floriila;^ first coll. by Ilulse at Tampa 

 Bay, perhaps not of human introduction. (W. Ind., S. Am.) 

 A. JAcQUiN'i, Don (Syst. i. 503, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 300, not Chapm.; A. li<fnosum, 



A. Kich. Fl. Cub. 152, Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 79, but not Sitla liijnosn, Cav. ; .1. /,ifp<Jruniin, 



Grav, PI. Wright, i. 20), of Mexico, comes near the U. S. bounilary. It may l>e known by it.-i 



seemingly cordate sepals eciualling the hirsute erect-awned carpels. 



* * Carpels 7 to 10, .at maturity about half to one third inch long. few-.«eedcd (.*oeds mostly 

 3, one above the other), from soft-pubescent to canescent-pnberulent. at sejianition hardly 

 showing an attaching tiiread, thin-coriaceous to membranaceous: perennials, with conl.ite 

 leaves and yellow corolla. 



■i- Fruit villous-pubescent, equalled by the calyx : corolla orange: flowers at least jmrtljr 

 naked-paniculate. Extra-limital species. 



1 Add E. G. Baker, Jour. Bot. xxxi. 71. 



2 Name changed from the later .1. Avirenme, in accordance with the "Kcw Rule." Ahulilom 

 Abulilon, Rushy, Mem. Torr. Club, v. 222. is al.so a synonym. 



8 Said also to occur in California, cf. Greene. Man. Hay-Rejr. 67. 



* Typical A. /mlicum, widely distrib. in tropics of both lioniispheres. him none of the Kl«nduUr 

 pubescence of the present variety, which by Schnniann (in Mart. Kl. Rrn*. xii. pi. .), .IS*) i- rpc«rdrd 

 as a distinct species, A. hirtum. Sweet, while K. G. Baker follows Master* in raiikinit i( « vari.ly of 

 A. fjrareolens, Wight & Am. But Wight and Arnott (1'ro.lr. Fl. Ind.) Male that all then* form., 

 ind. .1. Irnliriim, "seem to pa.ss by insensible gradations into each other." 



6 Also on the coast of Florida, ace. to Chapman. 



» Now extending at least to Central Florida, wiicre coll. near Ku>ti.s by .V.j«A. 



