328 MALVACE^. Ahutilon. 



A. Palmeri Gray. Shrubby below, tall : stems aud stalks pubescent and usually villous : 

 leaves veh L'ty-tonieutose, round-cordate, dentate (larger 4 to 6 inches long) : Howers mainly 

 in a naked ])auicle : peduncles or pedicels about inch long: calyx very villous, in fruit half 

 inch long, the lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate, little shorter than the petals: carpels 

 about 8, with short subulate beaks, very villous; seed-coat warty. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 

 289. — Yaqui River,* N. Sonora, Mex., Palmer. 



A. aurantiacum, Watson. About a foot high, woody at base: leaves velvety-tomentose 

 and canesceut both sides, round-cordate with closed deep sinus, creuate, inch or two in 

 diameter: peduncles mainly axillary and shorter than the leaves: calyx in fruit nearly 

 half inch long, cleft to the middle, very pubescent, canescent ; lobes ovate, acuminate, half 

 the len"-th of the petals: carpels 10, villous-pubescent, with short subulate beaks; seeds 

 rougliish-puberulent. — Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 357. — Lower California, a little below the U. S. 

 boundary, Parry, Orcutt. 

 -I- -I- Fruit pubescent or puberulent, equalled by or moderately surpassing the calyx: 



peduncles mainly axillary and shorter than the leaves. 

 ++ Leaves very soft and velvety white-tomentose beneath, less so or even glabrate and at 

 length green above ; the veinlets mostly obscure : calyx 5-parted ; lobes ovate, acuminate. 



A. permoUe, Sweet. Shrubby below, freely branching, 2 to 5 feet high : no villous hairs : 

 leaves ovate-cordate and mostly acuminate (larger 4 inches, smaller incii long) : later flowers 

 somewhat panicled : petals half inch long, much exceeding the calyx; the latter hardly at 

 all angled at base, barely equalling the 7 to 10 divergently nuuTouate-beaked carpels; seeds 

 minutely warty. — Hort. Brit. ed. 1, .53 ; Don, Syst. i. 503; Gray, PI. Wright, i. 20; Griseb. 

 1. c. ; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 609. ^1. Jacquini, Chapm. Fl. 66, not Don. A. peraffine, Shuttl. in 

 distr. pi. Rugel, no. 956. Sida permollis, Willd. Enum. 723. — S. Florida, in many places. 

 (W. Ind.) 



A. Wrightii, Gray. Ascending or decumbent and herbaceous from a lignescent stock: 

 slender branches and stalks with some soft spreading hairs : leaves round-cordate, obtuse 

 or acutish, an inch or more long, crenulate to dentate, very soft and white-tomentose 

 beneath : calyx half inch long and little shorter than the petals, or more accrescent, angu- 

 late at base ; the tapering acuminate lobes mostly surpassing the 7 or 8 pubescent subulate- 

 aristate carpels; seeds smooth and glabrous. — PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 162, & PI. Wright, i. 20. — 

 S. Texas, Berlandier, Wright, &c., and Arizona, Pringle. (Adj. Mex., Berlandier, Pringle.) 



A. Parishii, Watsok. Wholly herbaceous, erect, 2 feet high, very white-tomentose : stem 

 and stalks commonly villous with reflexed hairs : leaves very long-petioled, ovate-cordate, 

 hardly acuminate, crenate-dentate, an inch or more long : peduncles all much shorter than 

 the petioles : petals one third inch long : lobes of the deeply 5-parted calyx ovate, quarter 

 inch long, little over half the length of the 7 or 8 (rarely 5 or 6) mucronate-beaked pubes- 

 cent carpels; seeds puberulent. — Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 357. — Santa Catalina Mountains, 

 Pringle, and near Lowell, Arizona, Parish. 



++ ++ Leaves and stalks canescent or cinereous with short and partly scurfy-stellular down ; 

 the veinlets as well as veins conspicuous beneath. 



A. Lemmoni, Watson, 1. c. Fruticose, a foot or two high, much branched, erect, very 

 leafy : leaves ovate-cordate with shallow sinus, acute or acuminate, inch or more long : 

 peduncles about the length of the slender petioles : petals quarter inch long : calyx .5-parted, 

 canescent ; lobes broadly ovate, in fruit 3 or 4 lines long, half or two thirds the length of 

 the 8 or 9 puberulent-canescent mucronate-pointed carpels; seed-coat roughish-scurfy or 

 puberulent. — Rocky hills, S. Arizona, Thurber, Lemmon, Pringle. (Lower Calif., Streets f 

 Orcutt.) 



A.* Berlandieri, Gray. Branching, lignescent : leaves mostly larger than in the last pre- 

 ceding species, ovate or somewhat ovate-oblong, shallowly cordate, crenate-dentate, acumi- 

 nate :^calyx deeply 5-parted ; lobes ovate, acuminate, 4 to 6 lines long, equalling or exceed- 

 ing the mature carpels: petals half inch in length. —Gray in Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 



XX. 



1 This species was again collected by Dr. Palmer at Guaymas, Mex., but the plant so named, 

 Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. i. 67, from Lower Calif., is probably distinct. 



