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Tolitary tufts, each on a ftout ilraiglit downy (lalk, various 

 m length, but ufually about equal to the correfpoiuliug/oo/- 

 jlaH. 



2. W. InJica. Eafl. Indian Wallhcria. Linn. Sp. PI. 

 941. Willd. n. 2. Ait. u. 2. ( Malvinda ulmifolia, flof- 

 culis pulillis mufcofis conllipatis ; Burn. Zeyl. 149. t. 68. 

 Betonica arborefcens madcrafpatana, villofis foliis pro- 

 fundi venoiis ; Pluk. Almag. 67. Phyt. t. 15c. f. 5.) — 

 Leaves oval, plaited, downy, bluntly toothed. Heads of 



flowers felTile Native of the Eaft Indies. Cavaiiilles unites 



it with the foregoing, but the blunter more (hallow teeth of 

 the leaves, whicli are perhaps lefs denfely downy, and the 

 conftantly fefhle heads oiJJowers, of a tawny yellow, appear 

 fufficient marks of diilintlion, efpecially as the native coun- 

 tries of thcfe two plants are fo remote from each other. 

 Mr. Alton marks the IV. InJ'tca as a fhrub, flowering in the 

 ftove from June to Auguft, and cultivated by Miller before 

 the year 1759- To the Americana he attaches the cliarafter 

 of biennial. 



^.W. Lophanlhus. Crefted South-fea Waltheria. Ford. 

 Prod. 47. Willd. n. 3. { Lophanthus tomentofus ; Forft. 

 Gen. t. 14; fee Lophanthus.) — " Leaves roundifli-heart- 

 fhaped, ferrated, ftalked, clothed \Tith filky pnbefcence. 

 Heads of flowers ftalked. Bratteas imbricated." — Native 

 of the Marquis iflands. G. Forjier. 



4. W. ovata. Roundifh-leaved Waltheria. Cavan. 

 DilT. 317. t. 171. f. I. Willd. n. 4. — Leaves roundifh- 

 ovate, acute, unequally toothed, denfely downy. Heads of 

 flowers feffde. — Gathered in Peru by Dombey, who, un- 

 aware of its real genus, named the plant Aubentonia. This 

 is a bufhyyi&rui, three or four feet high, downy and very 

 foft in every part. Leaves of a very broad ovate figure, 

 obfcurely lobed or angular, one and a half or two inches long, 

 (harply toothed. Floiiiers yellow, in fmall feflile tujts., fome 

 of the lower ones afTemblcd upon fhort, leafy, axillary 

 branches., not near fo long as the leaves. 



5. W. angujlifolia. Narrow-leaved Waltheria. Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 941. Willd. n. 5. ( W. microphylla ; Cavan. DilT. 

 317. t. 170. f. 2.) — " Leaves oblong, obtufe, plaited, 

 toothed, hoary. Heads of flowers nearly feflile." — Native 

 of the Eaft Indies. Willdenow fays, " the Jlcm is ftirubby. 

 Whole plant inverted with thin pubefcence. Leaves half an 

 inch long, obtufe at each end. Heads fupported by very 

 {hort ftalks." We are obliged to adopt from him our ideas 

 of this fpecies, having no certain means of knowing what Lin- 

 naus intended. The plant of Fl. Zeylanica, n. 244. is pro- 

 bably different from that of Sp. PL but the fynonyms of 

 this and IV. indica are fo confufed, that they embroil rather 

 than illuftrate the fubjeit, nor does the Linnian Ixerbarium 

 throw any certain light upon it. 



6. W. eliiptica. Elliptic-leaved Waltheria. Cavan. Did. 

 ,316. t. 171. f. 2. Willd. n. 6. — Leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 obtufe, plaited, toothed, downy. Heads of flowers feflile. 

 — Gathered by Sonnerat in tlie Eaft Indies. Tlie leaves 

 are more downy, and thrice .13 long as in the laft, thougli 

 not broader ; the petals, according to Cavanilles' plate, ob- 

 tufe, not emarginate. 



7. W. glabra. Smooth-leaved Waltheria. Poiret in 



Lam. n. 7 Leaves fmooth, ovato-lanceolatc, bluntifti, with 



tooth-like fcrratures. Heads of flowers alternate, on axil- 

 lary ftalks Native of Guadaloupe, defcrihed by Poiret 



from the herbarium of profeftbr Dcsfontaines. A Jhnib 

 related in many refpefts to the IV. amerlcana, but fmooth in 

 all its parts. The branches are flender, a little coniprelfed, 

 Tery fmooth, dark brown. Leaves ftalked, oval, fomewhat 

 lanceolate, two or three inches long, one and a half or two 

 ijicheg broad ; fmooth on both tides ; paler beneath ; rarely 



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pointed. Fooljlalhs flender, fix or eight lines long. 5"rt'- 

 pulas lanceolate, pointed, deciduous. Flo'wirs in denfe, al- 

 moft feflile, leaflefs tufts, ranged alternately on an axillary 

 llalk. Outer calyx of three very narrow, fmooth, deci- 

 duous leaves: inner permanent, bell-ftiaped, very fmooth, 

 witii long, almoft thread-fhaped teeth. Corolla yellow, 

 fcarccly longer than the inner calyx. Capfule membranous, 

 \yith one /iv/. Poiret. The genus is clear by this defcrip- 

 tion. 



8. W. cordala. Heart-leaved Waltheria. Leaves 

 fmooth, heart-fliaped, fliarply and unequally toothed. 

 Heads of flowers ovate, folitary, on ftraight axillary 

 ftalks — Native, we behere, of the Weft Indies. The 

 branches are round, elongated, brown ; very fmooth below ; 

 their younger flioots roughifli to the touch with minute 

 points. Leaves from one to two inches long, on roughifti 

 footjlalhs about a quarter of their own length, broadly ovate, 

 bluntifli, veiny, but not plaited ; more or lefs heart-fhaped at 

 the bafe ; very unequally toothed ; paler beneath. Stipulat 

 awl-fhaped. Common jloiuer-flalhs generally much longer than 

 the footftalks, ftout, each bearing a denfe head oi floivers, 

 about half an inch long. Calyx, &c. anfwering nearfy to the 

 defcription of the laft. The feed is folitary, turbinate, ra- 

 ther hard. The younger Linnaeus received this plant by 

 the name of IV. angujlifolia, which it cannot be. The 

 fmoothnefs of the leaves and moft other parts diftinguithes 

 it from every defcribed fpecies, except the laft, with whofc 

 defcription its leaves and injlorefcence will by no means 

 accord. 



Waltheria, in Gardening, affords plants of the woody 

 exotic kind, in which the fpecies cultivated are the Ameri- 

 can waltheria (W.Americana); the Indian waltheria (W. 

 Indica) j and the narrow-leaved waltheria (W. angufti- 

 folia). 



The firft is a foft woody-ftalked plant of fmall growth. 



The fecond fort has a branching ftirubby growth. And 

 the laft is of the woody-ftalked kind. 



They all aftbrd flowers during the fummcr months. 



Method of Culture. — Thefe plants may be increafed by 

 feeds, which muft be fown on a hot-bed ; and when the 

 plants are fit to plant out, they muft be each removed into 

 a feparate fmall pot, and plunged into a frefti hot-bed, being 

 afterwards treated in the fame manner as other plants of the 

 fame nature, being kept in the bark-ftove. In the fecond 

 year tliey flower and produce feeds, but may be continued 

 three or four years if they be often ftiifted, and the roots 

 pared to keep them within compafs. In the view of keep- 

 ing the roots out of the tan, they fliould be drawn up out 

 of it at leaft once in fix weeks, during the fummer feafon, 

 and the plants be fliifted out of the pots once in two 

 months : with this management the fecond and third forts 

 may be continued feveral years, but the firll feldom endures 

 longer than two. 



They have a good effeft in ftovc coUeftions among other 

 potted plants. 



WALTON, Brian, in Biography, editor of the Englifh 

 Polyglott Bible, was born about the year 1600 in the diilriA 

 of Cleveland, Yorkftiire, and in 1615 admitted into Magda- 

 len college, Cambridge, whence he removed to Peter-houf*. 

 In 1623 he took the degree of M.A. being then curate and 

 maftcr of a fchool in .Suftolk. Upon his reniov.-U to London, 

 he became in 1626 rector of St. Martin's Orgar, and was dif- 

 tinguithed for his talents and diligence among the London 

 clergy. After having been inftitiited to other preferments 

 in the church, he took the degree of D.D. in 1639; but in 

 the civil war his livings were fequeftcred, and he was under 

 a neccflity of fcekiiig (heller among the royaLfts at Ox- 

 4 R 2 ford. 



