346 NOTES ON MALVAVISCUS. 
Var. mexicana Schlecht. Leaves above scabrid with a minute 
stellate pubescence, below sometimes nearly glabrous, sometimes 
with rather large stellate hairs. Peduncles with only short pubes- 
cence. owers an inch longer. 
Hab. of type. Tampico de Tamaulipas, Berlandier 1827, herb. 
Kunze; near Vera Cruz, G. Schiede; near Mexico, Hegewisch, herb. 
Lehmann. 
(.G. Pringle No. 4928, from Valley of Oaxaca, is nearer to this 
variety than to ype. _ 
National Herbarium, are Nos. 2218, 8977, and 9080. None of these 
appear to me to represent the type of this plant, though two of the 
Malvaviscus Polakowskyi, sp.nov. Frutex vel arbuscula 5 
ramulis pilis pubescentibus; foliis petiolatis laminis oblongis, 
+ 4-plo longioribus quam latis, basi rotundatis, apice subacumi- 
natis, margine irregulariter et grosse crenato-serratis supra _pilis 
has been al lant | ; 
No. 2218, “‘bords da Rio Giruelas,” 15. iii. 1890, is evidently 
closely allied to the above. : 
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