MALLOW FAMILY 159 
nodding on slender peduneles. Corolla not opening widely, orange, 
striped with reddish-brown veins. Column of stamens projecting 
beyond the corolla like a tassel. Cultivated in hothouses. From 
Brazil. 
Il. MALVASTRUM Gray 
Calyx with an involucel of 2 or 3 bractlets or none. Petals 
notched at the end or entire. Styles 5 or more, with knobbed 
stigmas. Carpels not splitting open or somewhat 2-valved, fall- 
ing from the axis when mature, tipped with a point or beak. 
1. M. coccineum Gray. Rep Fats—E Mattow. Perennial, 4-10 in. 
high, covered with a dense silvery down of star-shaped hairs. Leaves 
3-5-parted. Flowers in short spikes or racemes. Petals red, much 
longer than the calyx. Carpels 10 or more, with a wrinkled network 
on the sides. Prairies W. and S.W. 
Tl. MALVA L. 
Calyx 5-cleft, with a small, 3-leaved involucel. Petals ob- 
cordate or truncate. Styles many, slender, with stigmas run- 
ning down the sides. Carpels many, 1-seeded, arranged in a 
circle and separating from each other, but not opening when 
ripe. 
1. M. rotundifolia L. Common Mattow, Cureses (from appear- 
ance of the unripe fruit). A common biennial or perennial weed, 
with nearly prostrate stems. Leaves long-petioled, round-kidney- 
shaped, with crenate margins. Flowers small, whitish, on long 
peduncles. : 
2. M. sylvestris L. High Mautiow. Biennial or perennial. Stem 
erect, 2-8 ft. high. Leaves 5-7-lobed. Flowers purplish, larger than 
those of the preceding species. 
IV. CALLIRHOE Nutt. 
Calyx naked, or with a 3-leaved involucel at the base. Petals 
wedge-shaped, often toothed and fringed. Styles and stigmas 
as in Malva. Carpels 10-20, joined in a circle, 1-seeded, beaked 
at the tip. : 
1. C. alczoides Gray. Ligut Porry Mauiow. Perennial. Stems 
rather slender, 8-20 in. high, covered with close-lying stiff hairs. 
Basal leaves triangular-heart-shaped, palmately lobed or incised; 
