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PLATE CXXXV. 



MAL VA 



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X A 



B-efl ex 'flowered Mallow. 



CLASS 



XVI. 



ORDER 



VI. 



MONADELPHU POLYANDRIJ. 



Threads united. 



of Schrel. Gen. 



Plant, lysg. 

 Many Chives 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium duplex ,- exterius tr\.-phy\- 

 lum, anguftius; foliolis cordatis, acutis, per- 

 liftentibus; interius monophjllum, femi- 

 qulnquefidum, raajus, latins, perfiftens. 



Corolla. Petala quinque, obcordata, prae- 

 morfa, plana, tubo ftarainum bafi affixa. 



Stamina. Filamenta numerofa, inferne coallta 

 in tubum, in hujus apice et fuperficie fece- 

 dentla et libera. Antherae reniformes. 



PiSTiLLUM. Germen orbiculatum. Stylus cy- 

 Hndraceus, brevis. Stigmata plurima, fe- 

 tofa, longitudine ftyll. 



Pertcarpium. Capfnla fubrotunaa, compofita 



e loculamentis pluribus, (tot quot ftigmata) 



bivalvibus, virticillatim inarticulatis circum 



receptaculum columnare, tandem dilaben- 

 tibus. 



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Semina folitaria^ rarlus duo feti tria^ renifor- 



mia. 



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Empalement. Cup double; the outer three- 

 leaved, narrower^ leaflets heart - ihaped, 

 fliarp, and remaining^ the inner one-leaf, 

 half five-cleft, larger, broaderj and remain- 

 ing. 



Blossom. Five petals, inverfely heart- fliaped, 

 appearing bit at the ends, flat, fixed to the 

 tube of the chives at the bafe. 



Chives. Threads numerous, united below into 

 a tube, at its top and furface parted and 

 loofe. Tips kidney-fhaped. 



PoiNTAL, Seed-bud orbicular. Shaft cylindri- 

 cal and fhort. Summits many, briflle- 

 fliaped, the length of the fliaft. 



Seed-vessel, Capfule roundifli, compofed of 



many cells (as many as there are tips) two- 



valved, forming a vi-horl round a columnar 



receptacle not jointed, at length falling 

 off. 



Seeds folitary, feldom two or three, kidney- 

 ihaped. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Malva foliis cunelformibus, inequaliter incifo- 



lobatisj petalis reflexis. 



Mallow with wedge-ihaped leaves, unequally 

 gafhed into lobes 3 petals reflexed. 



REPERE?^CE TO THE PLATE. 



1- 



The Empalement, die inner and outer Cup feparated from the 



Bloflbm. 



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2. A Bloflbm fpread open. 



3. The Chives and Pointal. 



4. The Chives, the conneaing tube cut open. 

 The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified. 



5. 



fr^^fLf^^lttllf' "■°^' ^".r ^'"^^' '^^' t^"^ plant might be M. virgata, the 15th in 

 i roicuor iviartjn s new arrancrement of M ll^r'c niA; «:^ . a?.i t^ . ? . .t . 



Martyn's new arrangement of Miller 

 ngth of the branches of M. vircrnfr, f 



... Malva, But, from the extraor- 

 fix feet and a half long, and only 



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the thickn°eft of a wheat flraw at tCT^?''' there defcribed to be fix feet and a half long, and only 

 which never rifes to more Ian ,fL^ with dark purple flowers 5 we cannot but confider this, 

 ccptine a fmill ftreak nf . i f ?u r°.^ ""''^ ^ ^^^^ °^ ^^^'^ ^^^t in the flem, with white flowers, ex- 



S Ca'p:;™ d :\Trece[v^^^^ f^ ^''''^' ^] ' ^^^^^"^ ^^ ^^^^^^ '' '^ ^ ^^^T ^^ 



it Is milt ornamental ; he b ol^tt' il'^K *^''"'^''. '" *^l" ^^^^ ^ ^94. As a hardy green-houle plant 

 fucceliion from ^farch tUlNo " „^ ' ""^ ^'"^ ^"'^^ '*^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^"^1 blown, being produced in 

 in :,Iay. and placed under a h.n"i Tv"P°'' ^J^^ ^^'^ °^ ^^'^ P'^"*' ^^ '' in^reafed by cuttings made 

 « the tift foil o make it fl -jf "^ ' °'' ^ ^^^>' ^'''^^'' ^'S^* '^^™ ^'"^ ^ ^™^" ^^-^^"''^ ^^'P^^^' 



