MALVA CAMPANULATA. 
(Campanulate-flowered Mallow.) 
Class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
Order. 
POLYANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
MALVACEAE. 
Generic Character.— Calyx five-cleft, girded by a 
three-leaved involucrum ; leaflets oblong or setaceous. 
Carpels capsular, many, disposed in a round head.— 
Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character — Plant subshrubby, deciduous. 
Stems partially decumbent, downy. Leaves alternate, 
sessile, or embracing the stems, thrice-pinnate, with 
seven or eight principal divisions, and numerous mucro- 
nulate segments ; the whole hairy. Stipules ovate, dry. 
Bracts often bifurcate, also dry. Calyx regular. Corolla 
nearly campanulate ; petals obcordate, with a notch in 
the centre, not curving outwards at the margins, pale 
lilac. 
In calling at Messrs. Henderson's nursery, Pine-apple Place, Edgeware Road, 
a few years ago, we were arrested by the beauty of this exceedingly interesting 
little Mallow, which bloomed most liberally throughout the entire summer, both 
in the greenhouse and the open border. It bore the name under which we now 
publish it ; and as this is certainly expressive of the very distinct form of the 
flowers, and as we know of no existing description which is applicable to it, we 
adopt the title without any hesitation. 
The M. campanuloides of Messrs. Loddiges, figured by these gentlemen in their 
beautiful Botanical Cabinet, is, as they assure us, and as we ourselves thoroughly 
believe, an essentially different species, and it has probably ceased to exist in 
British collections. M. parpurata, again, which comes nearer to our plant in its 
growth and flowers, has the latter of another shape, and is not nearly so elegant 
and free-blooming a species. 
Indeed, the blossoms of M. campanulata excel, in figure, those of any other 
species of the genus, and are farther removed from coarseness and vulgarity. Their 
pleasing cup, or depressed bell-shaped form, and the regularity as well as perfect 
filling up of their outline, charmingly relieved by the slight indentation between 
and in the centre of each petal, give them a powerful claim to our esteem. 
The stems of the species are exceedingly numerous, and inclining downwards 
at the base. They are well covered with frequently-divided and graceful foliage, 
and the flowers are borne in great abundance at their summits, expanding in 
