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IV. Pavonia. 
Calyx surrounded by a 5-15-leaved involucellum. 
Stigma 10. Carpels 5, capsular, bivalved, 1 -seeded. 
— De Cand. 
Named , in honour of Don Jose Pavon, one of the authors of 
the Flora Peruviana. 
1. Pavonia spinifex. Spine-fruited Pcwonia. 
Leaves cordate acuminate coarsely and irregularly 
dentate stellato-pubescent, peduncles axillary 1 -flow- 
ered, carpels echinated with scabrous stiff’ reverted 
spines. 
Cav. diss. III. 133. t. 45. f. 2 Willd. Sp. III. 834.— Hi- 
biscus spinifex, Jacq . Amer. 196. 
HAB. Limestone districts. Halberstadt, Port-Royal moun- 
tains. Road from Springvale to St John’s. 
FL. September. 
A shrub about 5 feet in height : branches few, terete, traced 
on one side with a line of pubescence, and also bearing distant 
stellated hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, cordate, acuminate, 
irregularly toothed, stellato- hispid : petiole of the same length 
as the leaf, stellato-hispid. Stipules linear, subulate. Pedun- 
cles axillary, 1 -flowered, longer than the petiole, terete, pubes- 
cent. Leaflets of the involucellum 8, lanceolate. Calyx 5- 
partite ; divisions ovate, 5-nerved, pilose. Corolla infundi- 
buliform, yellow, more than 2 ce - the length of the calyx. Stig- 
mata 5, bifid. Carpels 5, armed with three strong spines, one 
of which is central and the other two external, furnished with 
stiff reverted hairs or setae : seeds solitary, 3-quetrous. 
This plant appears to belong to var. y of De Candolle. It 
is by no means a common plant. 
Q. Pavonia typbalea. Indian Mallow. 
Leaves oblongo-lanceolate dentate, peduncles axil- 
lary subterminal many-flowered, flowers conglobate. 
Urena typbalea, Linn. 3Iant. 258. — Swartz, Obs. 294. — Cav. 
diss. II. 134. and VI. 197 — Pavonia typbalea, Willd. Sp. III. 
834. 
HAB. Common. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
Suffruticose, a foot and a half in height : branches few, com- 
pressed, purpurascent, stellato-hispid. Leaves alternate, shortly 
petiolate, stellato-hispid. Stipules ^ an inch in length, linear. 
