332 MALVACE^. Malvaviscus. 



ii. 76, t. 130, PI. Lindh. pt. 2, 161, PI. Wright, i. 22, & ii. 24.i — Rocky woods, W. Texas; 

 first coll. by Lindheimer. (Adj. Mex.) 



18. MALVAVlSCUS, Dill. (Composed of J/«/ra and me«/rt, birdlime 

 from the viscid or imicilaginous fruit.) — Tropical American (except our species), 

 shrubs or tall hei'bs, with subcordate and occasionally angulate-lobed leaves, and 

 showy red flowers on axillary peduncles. — Elth. 210, t. 170; Cav. Diss. iii. 131, 

 t. 48 ; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 77, t. 131. Achania, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 1221. 



M. Drummondii, Torr. & Gray. Tomentulose : leaves round-cordate and mostly angu- 

 lately 3-lobed, fully as broad as long : bractlets of the involucel narrowly spatulate : corolla 

 vermilion-red, inch long: column at length well exserted : fruit red. — Fl. i. 230; Gray, 

 1. c. ; Griseb. Cat. Cub. 28. Pavonia Drummondii, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 682, the fruit at first 

 fleshy- but at length dry and separable. (Near M. mollis, DC, which has slender involucel- 

 late bractlets, &c.) — Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. (Adj. Mex., Cuba.) 



19. KOSTELETZKYA, Presl. (Prof. V. F. Kosteletzky, of Prague.) 

 — Perennial herbs (chiefly of N. and Central America), with cordate or sagit- 

 tate and sometimes lobed leaves, and axillary or somewhat racemose or paniculate 

 flowers. — Rel. Haenk. ii. 130, t. 70; Endi. Gen. 982; Gray, Gen. 111. ii. 79, 

 t. 132. Pentagonocarpus, Mich. ace. to Pari. Fl. Ital. v. 105. 



§ 1. Column long and filiform, at length exserted and much surpassing the 

 erect convolute corolla. — § Ortliopetalum, Benth. PI. Hartw. 285. 



K. Thurberi, Gray. Herbaceous? 5 to 10 feet high, scabrous-puberuleut, not hirsute: 

 leaves round-cordate and angulately 3-lobed (lower not seen) or uppermost oblong-ovate and 

 acuminate, serrulate, roughish-pubescent with 3-4-rayed short hairs, especially the lower 

 face : flowers numerous in a loose and naked compound panicle : bractlets of the involucel 

 setaceous, a line or two long : calyx 3 lines long, not accrescent : corolla less than inch long, 

 rose-color, outer face obscurely puberulent : stamens rather few near the apex of the fili- 

 form column : capsule 3 lines high, glabrate, acutely 5-lobed, hispid along the angles. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 314. A', paniculata, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 40, not Benth. — Canon 

 near Cocospera, Sonora, Mex., at considerable distance below the Arizona boundary, 

 Thurber, Schott. (Mex.) 



§ 2. Column not longer than the widely open petals. 



* Flowers small : involucel of very few and setaceous bractlets : petals only quarter or half 

 inch long: leaves hardly any hastate. (Like the preceding extra-limital.) 

 "R" . digitata, Gray. Roughly stellular-pubescent, paniculately much branched, slender, 

 probably low : leaves digitately 3-5-parted into lanceolate or linear denticulate divisions ; 

 petioles hispid : flowers racemose, slender-peduncled : corolla apparently purplLsh : capsule 

 setose at the angles; seeds glabrous. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 289. — Yatjui River, Sonora, 

 Palmer. (Mex.) 



TT . Coulteri, Gray. Hispidulous and the slender low stems or branches sparsely hispid : 

 leaves small (barely inch long), cordate, either 3-5-lobed or deeply 3-5-cleft : peduncles 

 mostly axillary, not surpassing the petioles: corolla yellow (?) : capsule setose at tlie 

 angles; seeds glabrous. — PI. Wright, i. 23. — Yaqui River, Sonora, Palmer.^ (Sonora 

 Alta, Mex., Th. Coulter.) 



1 Add Meehan's Monthly, ii. 177, t. 2. 



2 According to Dr. E. Palmer the fruit, both raw and cooked, is eaten in Texas, where it bears the 

 name of " May-apple." 



8 A second and doubtful form, with larger more deeply 5-7-parted leaves, has since been coll. by 

 Dr. Palmer, near Guaymas, Mex., and is mentioned by Dr. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. 41. One 

 or both these forms may be referable to K. pnlmnia, Presl, Bot. Bemerk. 19 (K. hispidula, Garcke, 

 Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. i. 223) ; see Garcke in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 395. 



