MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
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illary, solitary. Stipules lanceolate, hairy. Peduncles 2 — 3 lines long. 
Exterior Calyx setaceous, nearly as long as the interior. Interior 5-cleft, 
both hairy. Petals about twice as long as the calyx, yellow. Stamini - 
ferous tube and style, about as long as the calyx. Capsules hispid, collec- 
ted in a depressed globular head. Seeds 1 in each capsule, compressed, 
emarginate at base. 
This is the plant which has been referred to by Mr. Nuttall as seen in 
my herbarium. I have little doubt that it is the plant described as a Ma- 
lope by Walter, I must however add that a specimen sent to me from 
Pennsylvania by Dr. Muhlenberg, as the Malva Americana, is unquestion- 
ably the same plant; it certainly is not the Malva Americana of Willde- 
now although it apparently belongs to that genus. I did not however ex- 
amine the only living plant I have seen with sufficient care to enable me 
now to arrange it with any thing like certainty. 
Grows probably near the mountains from Pennsylvania to Carolina. — 
The plant I saw sprung up in a box, where seeds from the central Dis- 
tricts of Virginia had been planted, in soil dug from the pastures around 
Charleston. 
HIBISCUS. 
Calyx duplex, ex- 
terior polyphyllus. 
Petala 5. Capsulce 
5-loculares, polysper- 
mae. 
1. Moscheutos. 
H. foliis ovatis, a- 
cuminatis, serratis, 
subtrilobis, sub-5-ner- 
vibus, subtus incano- 
tomentosis ; petiolis 
flqriferis ; calycibus 
tomentosis ; capsiflis 
glabris. 
Calyx double, the 
exterior many leaved. 
Petals 5. Capsules 
5-celled, many seed- 
ed. 
Leaves ovate, acu- 
minate, serrate, gene- 
rally 3-lobed and 5- 
nerved, hoary and to- 
mentose underneath ; 
petioles bearing the 
flower ; calyx tomen- 
tose ; capsules gla- 
brous. 
Sp. pi. 3. p. 806. Mich. 2. p. 4 7. Pursh 2 p. 455. Nutt. 2. p. 82. 
Root perennial. Stem as in all the rest of the species, herbaceous or 
suffruticose, erect, 4 — 6 feet high, branching, a little rough, and purple. 
