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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
2.—MALOPE MALACOIDES, Lin. THE MALLOW-LIKE MALOPE. 
Specific Character _Leaves ovate, erenated. Stipules oblong-linear. Peduncles axillary, one-flowered.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—-This species lias purplish crimson flowers, strongly resembling those of the common 
Mallows, but with the seed-potl of the Malope. It grows about a foot or eighteen inches high. It is a native 
of the South of Europe and North of Africa, in meadows, and it was introduced in 1710. The culture is the 
same as that of M. trifida. There is a variety of this species with deeply sinuated, or pinnatifid leaves ; but 
we believe it has not been introduced into England. 
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GENUS III. 
LAVATERA, Lin. THE LAVATERA. 
Lin. Syst. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Generic Character. —Calyx girded by a 3—5 cleft involucre. Leaflets usually connected together to the middle. Carpels capsular, one- 
seeded, disposed in an orb around the axis.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c. —Most of the species of Lavatera are shrubby, but the few annual kinds are well deserving 
of cultivation. The generic distinction consists principally in the leaflets of the involucre being joined to the 
middle; and in the carpels, which are disposed round the central axis, having it dilated over them. Those who 
wish to study botanical distinctions, should compare the seed-vessels of the Mallow, the Malope, and the Lavatera. 
Three dry seed-pods are now before us : those of Malva moschata , Lavatera trimestris, and of Malope grandiflora. 
The seed-vessel of the Musk Mallow consists of a circle of woolly-looking carpels growing close together, but 
easily detached with a pin ; each fitting into a little groove in the axis, round which they are placed. They are 
in a loose open calyx, without any involucre, and even the small bractea which were below the calyx when the 
plant was in a growing state, have fallen off. The Lavatera has a larger circle in the centre, appearing at first 
sight to resemble the circle of carpels in the Mallow ; but on examination it will be found to be the dilated axis, 
which, instead of having grooves in it for the reception of the seeds, is stretched over them and curved down so as 
to form a cover, under the shelter of which the seeds lie completely concealed. The calyx consists of five sepals, 
which bend down over the centre, and below which is the large, spreading involucre, consisting of three broad 
leaflets, which grow together half way up. The Malope has a very long calyx and large sepals, which make its 
seed-vessels bear the same relation to the others as a filbert does to a common nut. The peculiar shape of the 
involucre and calyx arc shown in figs. 2 and 6 in plate 16 ; and when these are opened to examine the seeds, they 
will be found growing on the receptacle in the shape of a raspberry, something like those of the Flos Adonis, or 
the common Crowfoot. 
1.—LAVATERA TRIMESTRIS, Lin. THE THREE MONTHLY LAVATERA. 
Synonyme. —Stegia Lavatera, Dec. 
Engravings. —Bot. Mag. t. 109, ami our fig. 5, in Plate 16. 
Variety. —L. t. 2. albiflora, G. Don, has white flowers. 
Specific Character.' —Stem scabrous. Leaves smoothish, roundish, 
cordate, upper ones lobed. Pedicels solitary. Orb of receptacle per¬ 
fectly concealing the carpels.—(G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—The pink and white Lavateras are too well known as border flowers, to need any detailed 
description. They grow from three to six feet high, and their flowers are delicately and beautifully veined. The 
situation of the seeds has been already described. The plant is found wild in Spain, and also in Syria. It 
