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MALVA MUNROANA. 
(mr. munro's mallow.) 
ORDER. 
POLYANDRIA. 
CLASS. 
MONADELPHIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
MALVACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx in five parts, girded by an involucrum of three leaves, rarely with one of 
five or six leaves. Leaflets oblong, or bristle-shaped. Capsules many, disposed in a round head, 
one-seeded. 
Specific Character. — Plant a half-hardy shrub, grovping about two feet high, clothed with white down. 
Stem, ascending. Leaves roundish, cordate, five-lobed, somewhat crenate ; the end lobe the longest. 
Flowers in panicles, disposed rather on one side. Calyx five-parted, bell-shaped, with a deciduous 
three bristle-shaped leaved involucrum. Flowers vermilion coloured, roundish, with emarginate 
blunt petals. Carpels numerous, one-seeded. 
A VERY pretty species of Malva, found abundantly by our lamented friend Mr. 
David Doug-las, in 1836, on the barren plains of Columbia, in North America, 
shortly after which it was sent to the London Horticultural Society, in whose 
garden it flowered in 1829, and was figured in the Bot. Reg., vol. xvi. t. 1306. 
Mr. Douglas speaks of this plant as one of the most beautiful he had collected 
(1836), and certainly when well grown it is very handsome, and deserves extensive 
cultivation ; indeed no garden should be without it. 
It will do well, perhaps best, treated as a greenhouse plant, being less exposed 
to violent rains, &c., but it grows very vigorously, and flowers most profusely, at 
almost any season if planted in the open border ; in this case it will require to be 
taken up and potted on the approach of bad weather, and kept in a cold frame 
during winter with slight protection. When planted in very rich soil it does not 
succeed so well as when the soil is somewhat poor and open ; it requires a good 
deal of water when grown in pots, which should have an open drainage, as the roots 
detest soured water or soil. 
