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About 2 feet in lieiglit: branches round, tomentoso-hirsute. 
Leaves several together, shortly petiolated, 1| inch long, ovate, 
scarcely cordate, irregularly serrated, nerved, ferrugineo-hir- 
suto • tomentose : petiole ^ of an inch in length. Flowers light 
purple, collected in clusters of about 6, sessile, arranged to form 
a terminal interrupted spike. Outer calyx of 3 linear green 
hirsute leaflets, partially united together at the base. Calyx 5- 
cleft, hirsute ; divisions acute. (Both the involucellum and 
calyx have, intermixed with the longer hairs, short ones bearing 
a capitate ruby-coloured glandule). Stamens united into a 
tube : anthers white. Styles 5, filiform, longer than the sta- 
mens ; stigmata white, papillose. Capsule subglobose, 5-celled, 
with the remains of the styles forming a central apicula. 
VII. Waltheria. 
Calyx 5-fid furnished with a lateral 3-leaved de- 
ciduous involucellum. Petals 5. Style 1. Stigma 
pencilled. Capsule 1-celled, 2-valved, 1-seeded. 
According to De Candolle, the carpels are originally 5 in 
number, but are reduced to 1 by abortion. Named, in memory 
ot Augustin Frider. Walther, Professor of medicine at Leipsig, 
author of a Botanical work, entitled Hortus Proprius, 1735. 
1. Waltheria Americana. Shrubby TValtheria. 
Leaves ovate or oval plicate unequally dentate to- 
rn entose, eapitules stalked. 
Malva Americana abutili folio, flore luteo spicato, foliis hir- 
sutioribus, Sloane, II. 218. — Waltheria fruticosa subhirsuta, 
Rrowne, 276. — Waltheria arborescens, Car. diss. VI. 170. f. 1. 
— W. Indica, Jacq. 1c. Rar. I. 130. — W. Americana, Sivartz, 
Ohs. 254. — De Cand. Prod. I. 492. 
HAB. Common in dry grass-pieces. 
FL. Towards the end of the year. 
Shrubby : branches sub-erect, terete, not unfrequently of a 
reddish colour, hirsute with stellated hairs. Leaves alternate, 
ovate, or the larger ones oval and subcordate, plicate, unequally 
subserrato-deutate, nerved, tomentose on both sides : petiole 
terete, tomentose. Stipules setaceous, ciliated, deciduous. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, very short or more or less elon- 
gated so as to exceed the leaf in length, bearing a crowded 
head of small yellow flowers. Leaves of the involucellum 
lineari-lanceolate, ciliated, marescent. Calyx persistent, exter- 
nally tomentose ; segments acute. Petals spreading, rounded 
at the apex, wedge-shaped at the base. Column ot stamens 
