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12. MALVACEAE. 
the Madeiran. — M. Nicceensis All. (Cay. Diss. 2. 79. t. 25. f. 1 ; 
RFG. 5. t. 168. f. 4838) is another closely allied pi., which 
may possibly have been overlooked in Madeira. It is mainly 
distinguished from M. parviflora L. by the broader leafy ovate or 
oblong-lanceolate (ovate-lanceolate Cav.) outer sep. or invol. 
br. ; and the fr., which is either (as in M. parviflora L.) smooth, 
or more or less pubescent (subvillose Cav.), is also more neatly 
and finely cancellated, with the central disk often larger (as in 
M. rotundifolia L.), and with the edges of the carp, not raised 
or prominent. None of these char, however can be much de- 
pended upon to distinguish it from M. parvifiora L. unless it be 
the first, in which it approaches M. mauritiana L. ; forming as 
it were an intermediate link between the two ; having the 
shorter pet. and more sharply or distinctly cancellated fr. of the 
former sp., and the leafy invol. br. and immarginate carpels of 
the latter. 
2. M. maubitiana L. Malva. 
More or less starry-pubescent but mostly somewhat smooth 
and shining ; st. diffusely spreading or procumbent, often pro- 
strate; 1. on long smoothish or slightly pubescent footstalks 
with often a hairy line on the upper side, reniform or broadly 
roundish heartshaped, w r ith 5 obtuse or rounded toothed or 
crenate lobes shallow in the low r er 1., deeper but scarcely ever 
acute in the upper ; stip. ovate ; pedic. axillary few t. e. 1-3 
rarely 5 together erect usually much shorter than the petioles ; 
fl. large conspicuous, pet. fully 4 times longer than the cal. deeply 
and widely notched or subbilobed, their claw thickly and copi- 
ously fringed or bearded on each side ; invol. br. or sep. 3 un- 
equal elliptic-ovate or lanceolate shorter than the inner sep. 
which are indexed, closing over the fr. ; fr. rather large thickly 
pubescent almost hirsute, the valves obscurely cancellated or 
reticulato-scrobiculate and beaded or granulated up the sutures 
at the back, not margined or toothed at the edges ; central disk 
small. — Linn. Syst. (ed. 12) ii. 460; Cav. Diss. ii. 77. t. 25. f. 2; 
Brot. ii. 274 ; Brot. Phyt. Lusit. ii. 223. t. 179. f. 1 ; DC. i. 432 ; 
Koch 142 (under M. sylvestris L.). — M. mauritanica Linn. Herb. ! 
Buck! 196. no. 343. M. rotundifolia Buch! 196. no. 342 (not 
Linn.). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1 and lower edge of 2 ;§. Roadsides, 
vineyards and waste ground chiefly at 1000 ft. above the sea. 
About S. Martinho and S. Antonio, Pray a Formosa, and between 
Caniso and Porto Novo. May-July. — St. branched 1-3 ft. long 
very tough and almost woody at the base. 1 Ierbage very variable 
in degree of pubescence, but appearing mostly smooth and shining 
to the eye. L. dark dull green, nearly smooth above, more pu- 
bescent beneath. Petioles distinctly hairy at their junction with 
the 1., smoother downwards. Pedic. not longer than the pet. 
nearly or quite smooth. Fl. handsome large and numerous or 
