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Hab. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands; doubt- 

 less introduced from America. 



5. Malvastrum tricuspid atum, Gray, 



Malvastrum tricuspidatum, Gray, PI. Wright, (in Smithson. Contrib. 3) 1, p. 16. 

 M. carpinifolium, Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 22, excl. syn. Sida carpinifol. & planicaulis. 

 Malva Coromandeliana, Linn. Spec. 2, p. 687 (Pluk. Mant. t, 334, f. 2); Swartz, 



Obs. p. 262. 

 M. tricuspidata, Ait. Kew. ed. 2, 4, p. 210 ; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 430. 

 M. suhhastata, Cav. Diss. 2, p. 72, t. 21, f. 3; St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1, p. 214. 

 M. Americana, Cav. 1. c. t. 22, f. 2, vix Linn. 

 M. Domingensis, Spreng. in DC. Prodr. 1, p. 431. 

 M. Lindheimeriana, Scheele, in Linnsea, 21, p. 470. 

 Sida carpinoides, DC. Prodr. 1, p. 461 ; Walp. Eel. Meyen. p. 306. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; naturalized around 

 Honolulu. Manilla, Luzon. 



An American species now widely diffused over the warmer parts of 

 the world. It would not be proper to re-establish the Linnsean specific 

 name of Coromandeliana for a species which Linnaeus himself gives 

 as only American, and which certainly is not indigenous, even if now 

 to be found, on the Coromandel coast. 



6. Malvastrum rhizanthum, Sp. Nov. 



M. acaule, glabrum ; radice fusiformi tuberosa ; foliis longe petiolatis 

 rotundis subcordatis duplicato-crenatis ; floribus in colh umbellato- 

 congestis; pedunculis unifloris petiolis multo brevioribus ; bracteolis 

 involucelli eclliatis ; fructu glabro; coccis muticis dorso ad margines 

 dentlbus 3—4 muricatis. 



Hab. High Andes of Peru, above Banos. 



A strictly stemless plant, glabrous throughout, except the inside of 

 the calyx; the clustered foliage and numerous, crowded peduncles 

 growing directly from the crown of the perpendicular fusiform-tuberous 

 root. Petioles mostly an inch and a half long. Leaves rotund, or 



