MALVACE.B. 609 



MALACHEA, L. 



Flowers capitate, surrounded by a 3-5-leaved involucre. Leaves of the 

 involucel 8-12, linear or setaceous. Stigmas 10, capitate. Capsule separat- 

 ing into five 1-seeded carpels. — Herbs or shrubs, rough witli rigid, often 

 stinging hairs. Flowers white or yellow. 



M. capitata, L. Bristly, and tomentose in lines ; stem much branched ; 

 leaves cordate, obscurely lobed and toothed; peduncles single or 2-3 in a 

 cluster, axillary, 7-flowered ; involucre Sleaved, cordate ; petals twice as 

 long as the calyx, yellow; capsule glabrous. — Key in Chuckolusky Bay 

 ( Curtiss). — Stem 3° - 5° high. 



UKENA, L. 



Involucel deeply Scleft. Calyx 5 parted. Petals oblique. Column short ; 

 anthers few, terminal. Stigmas 10, capitate, capsule separating into 5 bristly- 

 barbed 1-seeded carpels. — Branching shrubs. 



U. lobata, L. Stem stout, tomentose ; leaves roundish, slightly cor- 

 date, entire or obscurely 3-5-lobed, caneseent beneath ; flowers small, 

 axillary, and crowded in a terminal raceme; leaves of the involucel 5-7, 

 subulate ; petals pale rose-color ; carpels densely bHstly. — Waste places. 

 Florida. Introduced. 



ABUTILON, Tourn. 



A. pedunculare, HBK. Shrubby, velvety-tomentose ; leaves long- 

 petioled, round-cordate, acuminate, crenate, caneseent beneath ; peduncles 

 axillary, as long as the petioles; calyx-tube plicate; petals "rose-color," 

 reflexed, twice as long as the calyx ; carpels about 20, mucronate, villous, 3- 

 9 seeded. — South Florida (Miss Reynolds).— Stem 2° -6° high. Petals 10" 

 long. 



A. permoUe, Don. Shrubby, velvety-tomentose ; leaves round-cordate, 

 acute, crenate ; peduncles twice as long as the flowers, the upper ones race^ 

 mose; calyx-tube not plicate; petals yellow, twice as long as the calyx; 

 carpels 7-10, villous, 3-seeded. — South Florida (Grisehach). 



PTJGOSIA, Juss. 



Involucel 6- 9-leaved. Column of stamens naked above. Stigmas 3 or 4, 

 separate or united. Capsule 3- or 4-celled, 3- or 4-valved, few- or many- 

 seeded. Seeds woolly. — Shrubby tropical plants, with solitary axillary 

 yellow flowers. 



F. heterophylla, Vent. Smooth, erect; stem angular, branching; 

 leaves lanceolate, obovate, or 3-lobed, 3-nerved ; peduncles long, dilated 

 under the flower ; leaves of the involucel minute, subulate ; calyx dotted with 

 black, the acute sepals 3-ribbed, much shorter than the showj- petals ; stigmas 

 3, united; capsule 3-celIed, 12^20-seeded. — Keys of South Florida. — Stem 

 12' - 18' high. Corolla IJ' - 2' wide. 



