Order 24.— MALVACB^, 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. Drumm6ndii Torr. & Gr. Tall, minutely tomentoua ; Ivs. roundish, cor- 

 date, angularly-3-lobed, crenate; ped. asUlary, solitary, sliorter than the petioles; 

 fis. erect ; braoteoles 8, linear-spatulate. — Texas. Naturalized about N. Orleans 

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

 half as long. Fls. beU-shaped, scarlet. Column slender, twice longer than the 

 coroUa. f 



2 M. Floridana, with leaves ovate-cordate, and fls. pendulous, scarlet, grows 

 in S. Ha. and sometimes in the green-houss. 



3 M. arbdrea, with Ivs. 3 to 5-lobed, acuminate, serrate, and scarlet fls., 

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

 velvety, 3-lobed, sub-entire Ivs. 



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

 the colors.) Calyx 5-sepaled, 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. JonSsii Peay. Stem shrubby, much branched ; Ivs, many, small, sagittate- 

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

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

 minate, 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 floral much smaller. Ks. 1-J' diam., rose-white, with a deep purple 

 center. (Malva Lecontii Buckley?) 



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

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

 depressed capsule, with a single seed in each cell. 



E. Virginioa PresL Lvs. acuminate, cordate, ovate, serrate, dentate, upper and 

 lower ones undivided, middle ones S-lolied; ped. axillary, and in terminal racemes ; 

 fls. nodding, pistils deolinate. — "4 Marshes near the sea, L. Isl. to Ga. and La. 

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

 IJ', long-pointed, some of them somewhat 3-lob6d. Hs. 2J' diam., red or rose- 

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

 (Hibiscus Yirg, 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, looulicidal, 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 palmately divided Nos. 1, 2 



* Calyx, &c., tomentous. Lvs. undivided, angularly lobed Nos. 3, 4 



* Calyx, &c., glabrous. — ^Leaves deeply lobed or parted Nos. 5, 6 



— ^Leaves undivided, slightly lobed Nos. 7, 8 



1 EC. aculeitus Walt. Eetrorsely scabrous ; lvs. palmately 3 to 5-lobed, repand- 

 toothed, bractlets of the imolucel linear, forlad 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. Ped. very short (3 to 4"), 

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

 Styles I longer than the stamens. Jn. — Sept. (H. soabra Mx.) 



2 H. Trionum L. Flower op an HotiR, Bladder Ketmia. Hispid, with 

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

 sinuate-lobed, lower lvs. angular-lobed ; cal. inflated, memlrcmous, veined ; iraot- 

 lets subulate, entire.—!^ A baautiful flower, escaped from gardens and barely 

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

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



