Pavonia.] MALVACEM. S5 



7, UBENA5 Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 329. 



Herbs or nndershrubs, more or less covered with rigid stellate liairs. 

 Leaves angled orlobed. Flowers clustered. Bracteoles 5, adnata to 

 the 5-cleft calyx, sometimes coherent at the base into a cup. Petals 

 ■5, connate below and united to the base of the truncate or minutely 

 toothed staminal tube. Anthers nearly sessile. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 cells 1-ovuled, opposite the petals; styles 10; stigmas capitate. 

 Kipe carpels covered with hooked bristles or smooth, indehiscent, 

 separating from the axis when ripe. Seed ascending. — Species about 

 5j inhabiting tropical and sub'tropical countries. 



Carpels armed with hooked bristles . 1. U. lohaia. 

 Carpels smooth, unarmed . . . 2. U". rejpanda. 



1. U. lobata, Linn. Sp, PI. 692 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 182 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 

 46 ; Royle Id. 84 ; D. 4- G. Bomb. Fl. 18 ; F. B. I. i, 329 (excl. syn. U, 

 ^almata) ; Watt E. T>. Vern. Bachita. 



A tall erect undershruh, 2-4 ft. high. Stems and hrancJies densely 

 covered with spreading stellate hairs. Leaves variable, 2-3 in. long, 

 rounded, ovate or linear-lanceolate, cordate at the base, 5-7 lobed, softly 

 hairy on both surfaces, paler beneath ; nerves prominent beneath, the 3 

 central ones or the midrib only provided with an oval glandular pore ; 

 petiole i-2 in. long ; stipules linear. Bracteoles oblong, lanceolate, equal- 

 ling the calyx. Flowers |-1 in., bright pink with a darker centre. 

 Carpels rounded. on the back, densely stellate-hairy, and with many 

 hooked bristles. 



Waste places, very common within the area, jBowering during the rainy 

 and cold seasons. Disteib. : Hotter parts of India and in the tropics of 

 both hemispheres The bark yields a strong fibre. 



2. U. repanda, Eoxl. Hort. Beng. 51 ; Fl. Ind. Hi. 1S2 ; W. cf- A. Prod. 

 -46; F.B.I, i, 330; Watt E. D. U. palmata, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 182. 



An erect much-branched ^perennial herb. Leaves shortly stalked, round- 

 ish, rarely lobed, rough on the upper surface, midrib glandular at the 

 base beneath ; lower 2-2^ in- long, cordate, repand-serrate ; upper lanceo- 

 late. Flowers racemose, ultimately in leafless clusters. Bracteolesh,^ 

 in., connate below into a strongly ribbed cup, subcoriaceous, exceeding the 

 membranous calyx. Sepals united for half their length. Corolla pink, 

 twice the length of the bracteoles. Carpels smooth, unarmed. Seed as- 

 cending, smooth. 



Dehra Dun, Moradabad, and along the base of the Himalaya ; a weed in 

 the Saharanpur garden. Disteib. : Punjab, Central Provinces, S. India, 

 and Ava. The root and bark are believed by the Santals to be a euro for 

 hydrophobia. 



8. PAVONIA, Cav. ; PI. Brit. i. 330. 



Herbs or undershrubs. Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered at 

 the ends of the branches. Bracteoles 5-15, nearly free. Sepals 5, 



