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THAI.AM I FLORAE. 
washing Osnaburgs and other coarse cloths. An infusion of 
leaves is employed as a wash for the hair, giving it a glossy 
appearance, as if from oil. 
2. Malva spicata. Spike-flowered Mallow. 
Leaves ovate or subcordate scabrous above stellato- 
tomentose beneath, flowers in an ovate or oblong 
spike, carpels 14 glabrous awnless 1 -seeded. 
Sloane, I. 219. t*-+87 — Browne , 282. — Cuv. diss. II. t. 20. 
f. 4.- — Be Cand. Prod. I. 430. 
HAB. Common. 
FL. After the autumnal rains. 
Stem 2-3 feet in height, suffruticose, branched, incano- 
toinentose with stellated hairs. The larger leaves subcordate ; 
the smaller ones ovate, serrated. Spikes axillary and terminal, 
at first ovate, afterwards oblong. Flowers subsessile, of an 
orange colour, with two small linear hairy bracteoles at their 
base. Leaflets of the involucellum 3, lanceolate, attenuated, 
tomentose, length of the calyx. Calyx acutely 5-fid to the mid- 
dle, hirsute, intermixed with a stellated pubescence. Petals 
spreading, unequally obcordate. Column of the filaments stel- 
lato-puberulous. Ovary orbiculate, depressed in the centre: 
styles 10, cohering at the base, spreading towards the apex : 
stigmata obtuse. Carpels 12-14-15, glabrous. 
By no means an attractive plant. Common by the roadsides, 
and in waste places. 
3. Malva prostrata. Spreading Mallow. 
Leaves palmato-5-lobed inciso-dentate, pedicels so- 
litary longer than the petiole, fruit glabrous, petals 
entire, carpels bivalve 2-seeded . — De Cand. 
Cav. diss. II. t. 16. f. 3. — De Cand. Prod. I. 436 Bat. 
Mag. 2515. 
HAB. Near Clifton-mount. 
FL. Autumn. 
II. Malachua. 
General involucre 3-5 leaved surrounding a head 
of flowers. Calyx surrounded by its proper involu- 
cellum, 8-12 leaved ; leaflets linear or setiform. 
Carpels 5, disposed in a circle, 1 -seeded De Cand. 
Name, applied by Pliny to a tree in Persia, producing a gum, 
but which has no connection with any of the species compre- 
hended in this genus. 
