SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF MALVEJE. 235 



many-flowered ; all ascending ; the rachis clothed as in R. leueo- 

 stac/iys, but with slenderer declining prickles passing into acicles. 

 Sep. clothed like the rachis, ovate-acuminate or ovate-cuspidate, 

 with linear point, yellowish at base. Pet. narrowly elliptic or sliyhtly 

 obovate, pink. Stam. white, hardly exceeding the greenish styles. 



This might perhaps take rank only as a well-marked var. of R. 

 leucostachys, though it looks very different when growing beside it; 

 and Dr. Focke prefers keeping it distinct. Damp bushy ground 

 (Wales and S.W. Engl). 



In this group, I believe, and probably (as Prof. Babington has 

 suggested) near 1L Sprenyelii, should come R. rubricolor Blox. ; but 

 I have not numbered it or attempted a detailed description, because 

 I have seen no barren stem issued by Mr. Bloxam. It has 

 remarkably lobate-dentate foliage, and a lax hairy and slightly 

 glandular pan. Besides the Warw. plants, Prof. Babington would, 

 I believe, now thus name those of Bev. A. Ley's from Heref. and 

 Glost., which for a time he was disposed to put to 11. erubescens 

 Wirtg. Dr. Focke has also suggested Bloxara's name for a more 

 strongly armed but otherwise similar plant found by the Eev. K. P. 

 Murray near Woking, Surrey. 



(To be continued.) 



SYNOPSIS OF GENERA AND SPECIES OF blALYKM. 



By Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 142.) 



Sect. VI. Malv 



Herbse vel suffrutices. Bracteolae 0. Flores petiolis baud adnati. 

 Calyx angulatus raro teres post anthesin non acerescens. Carpella 

 dehiscentia ssepe biaristata. 



t Calyx angulatus. 

 t Folia integra vel non profunde lobata. 



a. Caules erecti vel prostrati. Folia angusta linearia vel lineari- 

 lanceolata basi acuta vel subcordata. 



* Carpella 5. 



34. S. linearifolia St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. i. p. 180 ; K. Schum. 

 Fl. Bras. Fasc. cix. p. 300. 



Hab. Brazil. Minas Geraes ! St. Paulo. 



35. S. viarum St. Hil. I.e. p. 182; K. Schum. I.e. p. 301. 

 Hab. Brazil. Minas Geraes! St. Paulo. Argentine liepublic. 



Var. Balans^ei K. Schum. /. c. p. 301. 

 Hab. Paraguay, Balansa, No. 1599. 



36. S. Laplaensis K. Schum. /. c. p. 302. 

 Hab. Brazil. Minas Geraes, Riedel> No. 1686. 



37. S. sekrata Willi, in Spr. Syst. Veg. iii. p. Ill; K. Schum. 



I.e. p. 313. 



Hab. Dutch Guiana. Venezuela. 



