Malva.] XXVI. MALVACEiE. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 321 



4. Iff. parviflora, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 433 ; a spreading herb, slightly- 

 downy, peduncles spreading after flowering, claw of petal glabrous. Boiss. 

 Fhr. Orient, i. 820. 



Noeth-West Himalaya, alt. 1-2000 ft., Uppbe Benoai, Sindh and the Panjab. — 

 DisTRiB. Europe, the Levant, Arabia, Nubia. 



A comparatively small spreading herb. Leaves roundish, obsoletely lobed ; peduncles 

 short. Braeteoles linear. Sepals broad, acute. Petals notched, scarcely exceeding the 

 sepals. Carpels wrinkled. 



3.* laAXiVASTRUDE, A. Gray. 



■ Herbs or undersbrubs. Leaves entire or divided. Inflorescence axillary or 

 terminal. Bracteoks Z, narrow. Calyx cup-sbaped, 5-parted. Petals longer 

 than the sepals. Staminal-tube antheriferous to the summit, with no- sterile 

 teeth. Ovary 5- or more-celled; styles as many as the carpels, stigmas 

 capitate. R%pe carpels separating from a short torus, indehiscent, 1-seeded, 

 beaked or not. Seed ascending. — Distrib. About 60 species, all American 

 and S. African except 2, ■which are widely distributed throughout the 

 tropics of both hemispheres. 



M. TEicuspiDATUM, A. Gray PL Wright, 16 ; hairs simple, carpels with 

 three smaE projecting points. Malva tricuspidata, Ait. ; DC. Prodr. 

 i430. 



Various parts of Benoal and Madras, introduced. — Disteib. Tropics of both hemi- 

 spheres and Australia. 



An erect branching herb, 2-3 ft. high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, irregularly toothed, 

 feather-veined. Petiolel\iu. Peduncles \~^ in. Sracteolesna.Tiow. Calyx ca.Tapa.na- 

 late, 5-fid, lobes triangular acute. Petals yellow. Carpels 8-12, reniform. 



M. SHCATUM, A. Gray PI. Fendler, 22; hairs .stellate, carpels rounded or 

 angular not beaked. Malva spicata, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 430. 



Various parts of India, introduced; Meroui, Griffith. — Distkie. Tropics of both hemi- 

 spheres. 



An erect herb, 1-2 it. high. Leaves ovate, acute, creuate-serrate, soniptimes lobed. 

 JVowers in a dense terminal leafy spike. Braeteoles na,rco-w. /SspoZs' acuminate. Petals 

 yellow. Carpels 8-12, pubescent. 



3.** ANODA, Cav. 



fiispid herbs. Zeaws hastate-lobed. JPfoz^ers on long axillary peduncles. 

 Braeteoles 0. Calyx 5-parted, segments spreading. Petals 5. Staminal- 

 tvbe dividing into numerous fijaments at the top. Ovary many-celled ; 

 styles as many as the cells of the ovary ; ovules 1 in each cell. Ripe 

 carpels separating from the axis, bursting irregularly, 1-seeded. — Disteib. 

 An American genus of 8 species, not indigenous in India. 



A. H.4STATA, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 458 ; thinly clothed with appressed 

 hairs, leaves ovate-cordate hastate 5-lobed, lobes deltoid central one 

 longest. 

 _ Various places in Nokth-VTestern India and the Western Peninsula, but not in- 

 digenous. — Distrib. W. Indies, &c. 



A herb 2-3 ft. high, thinly beset with appressed hairs. Leaves 2-3 in. ; petioles 

 IJin. /S'fe^M^es linear, i in. long. Perfarecfes 4 in., l-flowered. Flowers l^ in. i.ia.m. 

 Sepals 5, broadly ovate, acute, spreading, connate at the base into » shallow tube. 

 Petals piii-ple, longer than the sepals. 



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