MALVACEAE 319 



yellow, 2 to 2.5 cm in diameter. Fruits about 1.5 cm lopg, 2 cm in 

 diameter, composed of from 15 to 20, somewhat pubescent, shortly awned 

 carpels. (Fl. Filip. pi, SS7.) 



In waste places, rather common, fl. all the year; throughout the Philip- 

 pines, but certainly introduced. Tropics generally. 



4. MALACHRA Linnaeus 



Erect, branched, coarse, hairy, anniial herbs. Flowers in axillary fasci- 

 cles, usually intermixed with bracteoles. Calyx-tube cup-shaped, thp lobdb 

 6. Petals 5, free above, coherent below, and connate with the base of the 

 staminal-tube. Staminal-tube truncate or 5-toothed, the filaments numerous. 

 Carpels 5, 1-ovuled; styles 10. Ripe carpels indehiscent, separating from 

 the axis, smooth. (From the Latin for "mallow.") 



Species 5 or 6 in tropical America, 1 now introduced in many other 

 tropical countries, 2 in the Philippines. 



Leaves not lobed; flowers usually yellow 1. M. capitata 



Leaves deeply palmately cut into 5 narrow lobes; flowers pink. 



2. M. fasciata 



1. M. CAPITATA L. Paang-baliuis (Tag.). 



A coarse, erect, simple or branched, annual herb 0.5 to 2 m high, coarsely 

 hairy. Leaves suborbicular, obscurely and shallowly-lobed, finely toothed, 

 base somewhat cordate, ^ to 15 cm in diameter, the stipules linear. Flowers 

 in axillary and terminal heads, the bracteoles foliaceous, up to 1.5 cm long. 

 Calyx-lobes short, slenderly acuminate. Petals yellow, imbricate, about 1 

 cm long. (Fl. Filip. pi. Z95.) 



In waste places, common, fl. Sept.-Feb.; throughout the Philippines. A 

 native of tropical America, now widely distributed in tropical countries. 



2. M. FASCIATA Jacq. Paang-baliuis (Tag.). 



A stout, erect, more or less branched, hirsute herb 0.6 . to 1 m high. 

 Leaves 10 to 15 cm long, cut nearly to the base into 6 linear or oblong-linear 

 lobes 5 to 16 mm wide, the outer ones much shorter than the inner, base 

 obtuse or rounded. Flowers fascicled, axillary or on short axillary branches', 

 each fascicle more or less enclosed by leafy bracts, the bracts with basal, 

 elongated, linear lobes. Corolla pink, about 1 cm long. ^ 



Abundant in waste places, fl. Sept.-Jan. A native of tropical America, 

 now common and widely distributed in the Philippines, but not reported 

 elsewhere in the Orient. 



6. URENA Linnaeus 



Erect branched herbs or undershrubs, stellate-pubescent. Leaves ovate,, 

 to orbicular, palmately lobed or angled. Flowers axillary, pink. Bracteoles 

 5, adnate to the 6-cleft calyx. Petals 6, free above, connate below and 

 adnate to the staminal-tube. Staminal-tube truncate or minutely toothed; 

 anthers many, nearly sessile. Ovary 6-celled, cells 1-ovuled; branches of 

 the stigma 10. Ripe carpels C9vered with hooked bristles, indehiscent, 

 separating from the axis when ripe. (From the Malabar name.) 



Species 4 or 6, of wide tropical distribution, several forms of one species 

 in the Philippines. 



1. U. LOBATA L. Calut-calutan (Tag.). 



An erect, branched, shrubby plant 0.6 to 2.5 m high, exceedingly variable, 

 more or less pubescent. Leaves pale beneath, ovate to suborbicular, 3 to 

 9 cm long, cordate, more or less toothed, or somewhat lobed or angled, the 



