•MALVACEAE. 
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1. Malachra capitata. Hirsute Malachra. 
Leaves subrotund cordate obsoletely lobed toothed, 
peduncle axillary short bearing 7 dowers within a 3- 
leaved involucre, stem hirsute. 
Malva asp era major aquatica, Sloane, I. 217, t. 147. f. 1. 
HAB. Bath, St Thomas ia the East. Ferry road. Sea-side 
at Rock fort. 
FL. End of the year. 
Stem 3-5 feet in height, erect, branched, terete, hirsute 
with strigoso-spinescent hairs, with a tomentose lino passing 
upwards from the axil of each leaf. Leav r es subrotund, cordate, 
obsoletely lobed, acute at the apex as also the lobes, irregularly 
toothed, 5-nerved, hirsute, and also stellato-pnbescent especially 
along the under surface of the nerves : petiole compressed, hir- 
sute, with a line of tomentose hairs along the upper surface. 
Stipules ^-1 inch long, setaceous, hirsute. Peduncles axillary, 
1-3 together, not so long as the petiole, each bearing 7 flowers 
in a head. . Involucre 3-leaved; leaves petioled, cordate, acu- 
minate, entire, nerved, hirsute ; each of them furnished at the 
petiole with a pair of linear strigose inch-long leaflets. Flowers 
yellow, subsessile. Calyx 5-fid ; segments lanceolate, 3-nerved, 
ciliated. Petals 5, nearly 2™- the length of the calyx, wedge- 
shaped at the base, rounded at the apex, ciliated, veined. Co- 
lumn of stamens hirsute : anthers oo . Style 10-fid, recurved. 
Carpels 5, united to form an orbicular depressed capsule, gla- 
brous, scrobiculate : seeds one in each carpel. 
A coarse weed. Shuts its flowers at mid-day. The hairs 
stiff and somewhat stinging. 
III. Urena. 
Calyx surrounded by a 5-fid involucellum (5 leaf- 
lets united for half their length). Anthers at the 
apex of the tube of the stamens. Carpels capsular, 
5, connivent, 1 -seeded, generally echinated externally 
with prickles radiating at their apex. — He Cand. 
Leaves usually glandulose on the under surface. — Name, 
from the word common in Malabar to designate this genus. 
1. Urena reticulata. Reticulated Urena. 
Lower leaves roundish sub-3-lobate cordate, the 
upper ones ovate, angulated irregularly serrated his- 
pid above stellato-hirsute reticulated and uniglandu- 
lose beneath, involucellum 5-7-hd somewhat longer 
than the calyx. 
