176 Robinson and Greenman—New Plants. 
c 
14-3 inches long covered with cinereous pubescence. F 
axillary, solitary or at the end of the branches somewhat race- 
mose. Bracts strapshaped, half inch long, shorter than the 
sepals. Calyx three-fourths inch long, sepals triangular or ovate, 
acute, inside the margin cinereous-pubescent. Petals convolute, 
2? inches long. Stamineal tube exserted 14 inches. Styles 10, 
capitately stigmatose. Fruiting peduncles straight, stiff, terete, — 
generally slightly bent just below the fruit. Carpels 5, black or 
brownish, black on the back, grooved above, the groove gradually 
This plant was distributed as Malvaviscus acerifolius Presl, a 
of which .there is a specimen gathered by Hzenke in Mexico in © 
the Herb. Mus. Brit. MM. Pringlei differs from 2. aoe 
in i wers. The lea 
deeper lobed : 
the bracts are shorter than the calyx and the petals pe 
ye! Me of the Mexican flora 
A 
from a knotted woody base, 
branches about 4 inches lon 
obtuse, thickish, cinereous ; the pet 
