MALOPE TRIT1DA. 
TRIFID MALOPE. 
Order. 
POLYANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
MALVACEAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Barbary. 
3 feet. 
July, Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1808. 
No. 281. 
The word Malope is believed to be a corruption of 
malake, the Greek name of the mallow. Trifida, 
from its trifid or three- cleft leaves. 
We see it, in some degree, the fate of flowers in 
our gardens, as of mankind in society, — one is ad- 
vanced to favour, whilst another is discarded ; the 
introduction of one to notice, is sometimes at the ex- 
pense of another’s existence. Thus, an old favourite, 
the Lavatera trimestris, an annual which every body 
has claimed acquaintance with for the last hundred 
years, is fast declining before the Malope trifida. 
The Lavatera, however, has one advantage ; it has 
a white variety ; and this may still stand, unblush- 
ingly, by the side of its rival Malope. 
Seeds may be sown in the open ground, in April, 
and the young plants should be kept free from weeds. 
When they are about two inches high, they will be 
fit for transplanting into the situations where they 
are to blossom. Not more than two plants should 
be permitted to grow together in the mixed parterre. 
In beds, with the plants eighteen inches apart, this 
annual is seen to great advantage, and assumes a 
most conspicuous character. 
71 Loudon’s Ency. of Plants, p. 582. 
Class. 
MON A DELPHI A . 
