MALVA AN GUSTIFO'LIA. 
NARROW-LEAVED MALLOW. 
Class. Order. 
MONOGYNIA. POLYANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
MALVACEAL. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
5 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 
Perennial. 
in 1780. 
No. 517. 
The generic name, Malva, is traced to the same 
Greek original, as the Latin mollis, signifying soft. 
The emollient properties of some species of Mallow, 
render the name sufficiently appropriate. Angus- 
tifolia, from the Latin angustus, narrow ; and folium, 
a leaf. 
The French botanist, Hilaire, who has been fol- 
lowed by Mr. G. Don, has made a new genus of the 
section of Malva to which the present suffruticose 
subject belongs. He calls it Sphseralcea angusti- 
folia. 
This is an upright ornamental species, more or- 
namental than is indicated by our drawing of it. 
This occurred from a specimen having been handed 
to the artist, which had flowered in a pot. In this 
case it had but a single flower at the axil of each 
leaf; but in the open border, where we now have 
it in beauty, it produces a cluster of them, where 
one only is represented, and from two to four are 
usually expanded at once. 
Although a native of Mexico, we have found it 
quite hardy, and its suckers, which spread widely 
under ground, afford sufficient increase. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 1, 465. 
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