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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRXA. 
merous, 15 — 20, hispid, 2-horned, united in a truncated head. Seeds 2 
in each capsule, compressed, nearly round, emarginate at base. 
Grows very common about buildings and in rich soils. 
Flowers April — June, 
3. Abutiloides. 
M. foliis 5-angu- 
lari-lobatis, tomento- 
sis ; pedunculis sub-4- 
floris, bifidis, axillar- 
ibus ; capsulis poly- 
spermis. 
Leaves with 5 an- 
gular lobes, toraen- 
tose; peduncles 2 cleft, 
generally 4-flowered, 
axillary; capsules ma- 
ny seeded. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 780. Pursh 2. p. 454. 
This plant, a native of the Bahama Islands, I have never seen growing 
in an indigenous state in this cquntry. I believe it is sometimes cultiva- 
ted in gardens. 
MALOPE. 
Calyx duplex, ex- 
terior 3-phyllus. Cap. 
sulce absque ordine 
glomeratae, monosper- 
mae. 
1. Malacoides. 
M. fobis oblongis, 
obtusis, integris, cre- 
natis, supra glabris ; 
pedunculis solitariis, 
axillaribus. 
Gen. Pl. 1136. 
Calyx double, the 
exterior 3-leaved. 
Capsules clustered 
without order, one 
seeded. 
Leaves oblong, ob- 
tuse, entire, crenate, 
glabrous on the up- 
per surface ; pedun- 
cles solitary, axillary. 
Gen. PI. 1136. Walt. 176. Pursh 2. p. 455. Nutt. 2. p. 82, 
Plant annual, 12 — 18 inches high, sparingly branched. Stem nearly 
covered towards the summit with white transparent hair, Jxeaves ovate, 
dentate, very obtuse at base, nearly glabrous on the upper surface, hairy 
along the veins underneath. Petioles about an inch long* Floioers ax- 
