Pavonia. M A I.\' ACK.i:. I].'}] 



Cat. Hurt. Par. 246 ; DC. Prodr. i. 440. .»/. Mrx.nii,,,, firav. Gen. Ill ii 74. t IL'^. pn.UMy 

 not Schrutl. — 're.\a.s, ir/////<r (.Me.\., W. In.l.) 



16. UR£NA, Dill. {Urtn, a Malaljar iijiiiie.; — More or lew* caueKoeiit 

 herbs or uii(l.r.sliiul).s (of Asiatic or African ori;,'iii) ; witli hiiiall aiirl M.-i,hiK- or 

 8hort-i)e(lunclud flowers, yellowish or purplish corolla, aii<l a hiiiall Imrr-Iikc 

 fruit. — Elth. 430, t. 319; L. Gen, no. .'>.j.>.» 



U. lobAta, L. Leaves rounded, mostly broader than long. ^u^K•ordate. anjrulaN-lv .VIuImmI at 

 summit, serrulate, upper fate screen. iK'iiealii an ol.long >,'land on the t.aw uf one or thro* 

 middle rihs : petals pink or msc color. — Sj.ei-. ii. 092 ; (;riMeb. 1. e. 81; Chapm. Kl. eU. a, 

 6()'.t ; and many synonyms and varitlits. — Ahout dwellings iu Florida. (Nat. from \V. lud., 



thence from India.) 



17. PAVONIA. Cav. (Josejj/, P,ir„u, one of th.- authors ..f ll..- Flora 

 Peruviana.) — Slirulthy or sufTruticose plants of warni-teniprrat*^ an«l tropical 

 zones, of various habit, some near to Ureua, others connfctinf; with M<dvavlsru$. 

 — Diss. ii. App. 2, & iii. 132, t. 4.3-4 'J ; DC. I'rodr. i, 4 12; (Iray.den. III. ii. 

 75, t. 130. 



§ 1. Carpels 3-awne(l or 2-3-cornute, angled, thick. 



P. Spinifex, Cav. Shruhhy, puheseent : leaves ohlong<ivate and suU-ordato, dentate: 

 flowers slender peduncled, mainly axillary : liractlets of the in\oluiel wvi-nil. linear or 

 lameulate, fully equalling the calyx : petals yellow, an inch long, eijualled hy the column : 

 mature carpels firm-coriaceous, hearing three long spiny retrorsely loirlK-d awns, one ^ul■ter- 

 minal and two lower marginal ones. — Di.-ss. iii. 1.33, t. 4.'), f. 2 ; DC. I. c. ; Chapm. FI. ed. 2, 

 608. Hibiscus s/iini/er, L. Spec. ed. 2, ii. 978. — Coast of Florida ; perhaps introdure<l, a^ it 

 is at Charleston, S. Carolina. (Trop. Am.) 



p. racemosa, Swartz. Shruhhy, puherulent : leaves cordate, slemler-acnminnte, nearly 

 entire, .3 to 5 inches long: flowers in a terminal naked raceme: hracth-ts <if the invohie«| 6 

 or 8, oblong-lanceolate, nearly eiimflling the moderately .'i lol>ed calyx : J^etalsgrecni^h•yelll>w 

 or whitish, three fourths inch long, surpa.xsing the column : carpels sm<Mith. with a pJiir of 

 short triangular beaks near summit of margins, and a small medial apical cn-st. — FI. Ind. 

 Occ. ii. l-2\'i; DC. 1. c. 44.3; Griseh. I. c. 83; Chapm. 1. c. /'. spinitn, Cav. Diwi. iii. 1.16. 

 t. 46, f. 1, l)Ut flowers n<rt spicate. Malache schIhu, &c* Trew, Ic. I'l. Scl. t. 90. — Coa.«t 

 and keys of S. Florida, in marshes, davber. Palmer, Ciirtiss. (Trop. Am.) 



§ 2. Carpels unarmed and pointless, obovoid, small, dorsally 1 -nerved. 



P. hastAta, Cav. Frutescent, cane.scent with minute i)ubescence, much branched: Iea\<» 

 hastate, obtusely dentate, inch or two long : flowers slender-peduncled in the axils : hractleiH 

 of involucel 5 or 6, obovate to lanceolate, equalling the calyx: petals pale red with dark 

 spot at base, half inch long: stamens in the short column sometimen few : rar]M-ls reticu- 

 lated : flowers often cleistogamous. — Di.«s iii. 138. t. 47, f. 2; Reichenb. Ic. Bot. Kxot. iii. 

 t. 227. /*. LeContii, Torr. & (Jray in Gray. IM Fendl. 16. /'. Ji.ursii, Feay in WoimI. 

 Class-Rook, ed. of 1861, 209. Malia I.fCmlii, Huckley, .\m. Jour. Sci xlv. 176. (irrrrrtia 

 cleisocali/T, F. Muell. in Hook. .Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. viii. 8. — Georgia near the cl>a^t. 

 introduced. (Nat. from extra-trop. S. Am.) 



P.* lasiopetala, ScnKKi.E.2 Shrubby, tomentnlose and cinereous: leaves conlate or mi1»- 

 cordate, scrrati- or re]>and, sometimes slightly angulatelolx-d. 1 to 3 inches long : flower* 

 slender-peduncled in the axils: bracllets of inv.ducel .'> to 8, linear, rather |t>iiger tluui llio 

 ovate acumin.ate .3-.5-nerved caIyx-lol)es : pet.als ro.se color, half to thmo fourtlm inch long: 

 carpels smooth or obscurely reticulated. — Linna-a, xxi. 470. /'. H'nV/A/»V, (iray. Grn. III. 



1 Add Giirke in F.nu'I. .Inlirb. xvi. 301-38,-,. 



■- The earliest name, aimndoiied on nccount of its not infrciticnt in«ppli.«liiliir (ih* prlal* Iwinj 

 of\en glabrous), is here restored on grounds of priority, as by Hook. f. & Jackton, Index Kew. ii. Hi. 



