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convolute together after anthesis but remaining separate and persis- 

 tent, becoming narrowly spatidate, and attaining the length of 6 or 8 

 lines. Stamineal column antheriferous for a considerable portion of 

 its upper part; the anthers apparently red or reddish. Styles 12, 

 red at the summit, which is clavate-thickened : stigmas capitate, small. 

 Ovary hirsute, twelve-celled; the ovules, &c, as in the preceding 

 species. Fruit not seen. 



This well-marked species, although not yet met with in the collec- 

 tion, is so well indicated in Dr. Pickering's notes as to enable me to 

 identify it with specimens in Sir William Hooker's herbarium, ga- 

 thered in the same district by Mr. M'Lean, from which it is here 

 described. The corolla appears to have been blood-red. 



12. Malvastrum Cavanillesii. 



M. nanum, subacaule; caudice multicipite crasso; foliw confertis pinnati- 

 partitis utrinque tomentosis, segmentis 5-7 obovatw trilobatis ; floribus 

 solitariis basi petioli dilatato sessilibus; petalis obovatis; ovario 7-10- 

 loculari hirsute-. 



Sida acaulis, Cav. Ic. 5, p. 13, t. 422, f. 2 ; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 466. 



Hab. High Cordilleras of Peru, near Casa Cancha, &c. (Also 

 gathered by Mr. M'Lean.) 



This is another of these depressed and tufted alpine species, not 

 over an inch high, with branching caudexes almost as thick as those 

 of M. pinnatum. The leaves are smaller than in that species, tomen- 

 tose on both sides with a cinereous or fulvous pubescence ; the very 

 small segments (barely a line in length) obovate and three-lobed; the 

 petioles less winged. The flowers also are small, and sessile at the 

 very base, if not truly in the axils, of the leaves; the obovate petals 

 only 3 or 4 lines in length. The styles and cells of the ovary are 

 7, according to Cavanilles. In our plant they are 9 or 10; and the 

 ovary is hirsute, as in all these species. I have not seen the fruit. 

 Our specimens closely resemble the figure given by Cavanilles ; but 

 the corolla does not appear to have been yellow. 



