OaoBE 24.— MALVA^EjE. 269 



petals erect, convolute ; styles 10, with capitate stigmas, the inner 

 longer; carpels 5, baccate, 1-seeded, forming a fleshy fruit. — Half 

 shrubby plants, with showy, red flowers. 



1 M. Drummdndii Torr. & Gr, Tall, minutely tomentous ; Ivs. roundish, cor- 

 date, angularly-3-lobed, crenate ; ped. axillary, solitary, shorter than the petioles ; 

 Ob. erect ; braeteoles 8, linoar-spatulate. — Texas. Naturalized about jST. Orleans 

 (Hale). St. round, branched, 3 to 4f high. Lvs. 3 to 4' diam., the petioles 

 half as long. Fls. bell-shaped, scarlet. Oolumn slonder, twice longer than the 

 corolla. \ 



2 M. Floiid^na, with loaves ovate-cordate, and fls. pendulous, scarlet, grows 

 in S. Fla. and sometimes in the groon-houso. 



3 M. arborea, with lvs. 3 to 5-lobed, acuminate, serrate, and scarlet fls., ' 

 from Jamaica, is cultivated often in the green-house ; and also, M. mollis, 

 v^vety, 3-lobed, sub-entire lvs. 



9.' PAVONIA, Cav. (The Latin name of the peacock, suggested by 

 the colors.) Calyx 5-sepalcd, surrounded at the base with an involucel 

 of 5 — 15 bractlets; petals roundish, obtuse; stigmas 10, linear; car- 

 pels 5, capsular, 2-valved, 1-seeded. 



P. Jonesii Foay. Stem shrubby, much branched ; lvs, many, small, sagittate- 

 oblong, obtuse, with coarse, obtuse teeth, the lower surface hoary-tomentous, 

 veins prominent ; upper surface scabrous ; sepals ovate, 3-veined, downy, acumi- 

 miuate, as long as the 5 oval, acute bractlets; carpels blunt, rugous, scarcely 

 dehiscent — Liberty Co., Ga. (Mr. "W". Jones). Stem 4 — 5f high. Lvs. IJ — 2' 

 long, the fioral much smaller. Fls. 1^' diam., rose-white, with a deep purple 

 center. (Malva Leo6utii Buckley?) 



10. KOSTELETZKYA, Presl. (In honor of Kostelelzky, a German 

 botanist.) Calyx, involucel, styles, etc., as in Hibiscus. Fruit a 5-celled, 

 depressed capsule, with a single seed in each cell. 



jE. Virginica PresL Lvs. acuminate, cordate, ovate, serrate, dentate, upper and 

 lower ones undivided, middle ones S-lobed ; ped. axillary, and in termmal racemes ; 

 lis. nodding, pistils declinate. — % Marshes near the sea, L. Isl. to Ga. and La. 

 (Hale). The whole plant scabrous, tomentous, about 3f high. Lvs. 2 to 2J' by 

 1 J', long-pointed, some of them somewhat 3-lobed. Fls. 2J' diam., red or roso- 

 color. Column slender, as long as the petals. Caps, hispid, acute-angled. Aug. 

 (Hibiscus Virg, L. and Ed. 2d.) 



11. HIBISCUS, L. Calyx 5-cleft, subtended by an involucel of many 

 bractlets, column long with the stamens lateral and the 5 stigmas capi- 

 tate ; fr. a 5-celled. capsule, loculicidal, the valves bearing the partitions 

 in the middle ; seeds 3 or many in each cell. — Herbs or shrubs. Fls. 

 large and showy. 



* Calyx, &c, hispid. Leaves palm.itoly divided Nob. 1, 2 



* Calyx, &c., tomentoxxs. Lvs. undivided, angularly lobed Nos. 3, A 



* Calyx, &C., glabrous.— Leaves deeply loDed or parted Nos: 5, 6 



— Leaves undivided, slightly lobed Nos. 7, 8 



1 .H. aculedtus "Walt. Eetrorsely scabrous ; lvs. palmately 3 to 5-lobed, repand- 

 toothed, bracUets of the involucel linear, forked at the end; sep. red- veined, acumi- 

 nate, very hispid. — Damp soils, S. Car. to Fla. and La. Tall (3 — 5f) and very 

 rough. Lvs. 2 to 3' broad, as long as their stalks. Fed. very short (3 to 4"), 

 jointed at base. Cor. 4J' broad, pale' sulphur-yellow, purple in the center. 

 Styles -J longer than the stamens. Jn. — Sept. (H. scabra Mx.) 



2 H. Tridmim L. Flower op an Houn. Bladder Ketmia. Hispid, with 

 scattered hairs ; lvs. deeply 3-parted, aegm. lanceolate, middle one very long, all 

 sinuate-lobed, lower lvs. angular-lobed ; cal. inflated, menibranous, veined ; irad- 

 lets subulate, entire.— Q^ A boautiful flower, escaped from gardens and barely 

 naturalized, branching, 1 to 2f high. Fls. large, numeroias, but soon withering. 

 Petals of a rich, chlorine yellow, the base of a deep brown, f § Italy. 



