No. 222. 
MALVA UMBELLATA. 
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Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
This is a native of New Spain, a country 
so extensive and so diversified in altitude, 
and of course in temperature, that it re- 
quires considerable experience to assign 
a proper situation for its productions, few 
of which are yet brought to England. 
The celebrated Humboldt remarks, that 
little is known of the plants, which are 
either scattered over the numerous heights, 
or crowded together in the vast forests at 
the foot of the Cordilleras. New Herba- 
ceous plants, he observes, are daily disco- 
vered on the central plain, even in the im- 
mediate vicinity of the city of Mexico; of 
course far greater numbers of trees an 
shrubs, still remain unknown in those less 
frequented, moist, and hot regions which 
form the eastern and western coasts of that 
important country. 
Our plant has been growing in the green- 
house for two years, and has attained the 
height of four or five feet. It produced 
