MALY A; 
ner one-leafed, half-five-cleft, larger, broader, permanent. 
Corolla : petals five, obcordate, prsemorfe, flat, fixed to 
the tube of the ftamens at the bafe. Stamina : filaments 
numerous, united below into a tube, feceding and loofe 
at the top and furface of itj antherse kidney-form._ Pif- 
tillum : germ orbicular 5 ftyle cylindric, fhort; ftigmas 
very many, briftly, the length of the ftyle. Pericarpium s 
capfule roundifti, compofed of very many cells, (as many 
as there are ftigmas,) two-valved, placed in a whorl about 
a columnar receptacle, finally falling. Seeds: folitary, 
very feldom two or three, kidney-form.— EJfential CharaBer. 
Calyx double, outer three-leaved ; capfules many, united 
in a deprefled whorl, one-celled, one-feeded. 
Species. I. With undivided leaves. 1. Malva fpicata, 
or fpiked mallow s leaves cordate, crenate, tomentofe; 
fpikes oblong, rough-haired. Stem pale green, two or 
three feet high, branched. Leaves almoft round, an inch 
and a quarter long, and three quarters of an inch broad 
at the bafe; pale green, finooth, on petioles three quarters 
of an inch in length. The tops of the twigs and branches, 
for the length of an inch, are thick fet in a fpike with 
orange-coloured flowers, in very hirfute calyxes. Native 
of Jamaica, in cleared barren rocky lands. Cultivated 
by Mr. Miller, in 1726. It flowers in September and 
October. 
2. Malva tomentofa, or downy-leaved mallow: leaves 
cordate, crenate, tomentofe; flowers lateral, heaped ; ftem 
fhrubby, tomentofe, or hifpid, two feet high, upright, 
round, little branched. Leaves ovate, fubacute, fubcor- 
date, curled. Native of the Eaft Indies and Cochin-china. 
3. Malva Gangetica, or Indian mallow : leaves cordate, 
obtufe, rugged y flowers feffile, glomerate ; arils ten, awn- 
lefs, crenulate. This is flfter-plant to M. Coromandeliana, 
but ftiffer. Flowers at the tops of the branches, yellow. 
Native of India. 
4. Malva Coromandeliana, or Coromandel mallow : leaves 
oblong, or cordate, ferrate; peduncles axillary; flowers 
glomerate; arils three-cufped. Stern a foot high, round, 
hifpid. Common in Jamaica, among grafts. Thefe are 
both annual plants. 
5. Malva fcoparia, orftmall yellow-flowered upright mal¬ 
low : leaves ovate, crenate-ferrate ; flowers axillary, cluft- 
tered ; ftems fhrubby ; branches rod-like. This is a fhrub, 
a fathom in height. Stem upright, round, ftmoothifh, very 
much branched. Leaves alternate, ftpreading, or hanging 
flown a little, fubcordate, acute, entire at the bafe, looftely 
nerved with the nerves prominent underneath, fubtomen- 
tofe, fomewhat rugged, pale green, two inches and a half 
or three inches in length, from an inch and a half to two 
inches and a half in breadth. See Botany Plate V. fig. 80. 
vol. iii. Flowers aggregate or folitary, the upper ones in 
a fort of fpike, on fhort peduncles, yellow, marked with 
red fpots on both fides, half an inch over. Native of Peru, 
about Lima; where it was found by Dombey, and fent to 
the Paris garden. It flowers in its native foil in July and 
Augult. Though fhrubby, it feldom comes to a fecond 
year; but perfects feeds here, and readily grows fro nr 
them. The Spaniards in America call it efcoba cimarroaa , 
or wild broom ; the inhabitants making common brooms 
of the branches. It flowers in Augult and September. 
In a paper in the Phil. Tranf. N° 468. (e Concerning the 
wonderful Increafe of the Seeds of Plants,” by Mr. Jofeph 
Hobfon, of Macclesfield, this fpecies is brought as an in- 
Itance. “ In the upright mallow, the feeds being difpofed 
in rings, Mr. H. counted thofe which were on the prin¬ 
cipal Items, and found them as-follows: 
Rings in all - - - - 10199 
Multiply by feeds in one ring - 12 
Number of feeds - 122388 
Allow for two large ftems deftroyed - 7612 
Seeds in all - 130000 
He then counted the feeds in feveral particular rings, and 
found them commonly 14 in each, but has confined him- 
'felf to multiply the rings by 12, which is moderate, yet 
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makes the feeds amount to 130000, allowing 7612 feeds 
for two large ftems cut down and deftroyed, a moderate 
allowance, confidering two of the ftems alone contain each 
above 1000 rings : fome of thefe ftems were above two yards 
and a half high. This plant was a feedling laft year, tranf- 
planted out of the fields on the end of a (loping ftrawberry- 
bed ; and he counted the rings in the middle of July, when 
it had thoufands of flowers upon it, which, with thou- 
fands that mutt frill fucceed, might very probably pro¬ 
duce above 50000 feeds more, even fuppofing many of the 
flowers to produce no feed, confidering 1000 rings con¬ 
tain 12000 feeds and more ; and, if we multiply the num¬ 
ber of rings actually counted by 14, the number of feeds 
contained in one ring, inltead of ia, we (hall have an 
addition of 20000 feeds, all of which, added together, 
amount to 200000, the poflible increafe of one feed. Phil. 
Tranf. abr. vol. viii. 
6. Malva anguftifolia, or narrow-leaved mallow : leaves 
lanceolate; flowers axillary, in pairs; peduncles fhorter 
than the petiole; outer calyx briftle-fhaped, deciduous. 
Stem fuffruticofe, round, branched, three feet high, co¬ 
vered with numerous ftellate hairs, fo fmall and clofe, 
that this and the whole plant appear mealy. Leaves alter¬ 
nate, feveral times longer than the petiole?, crenate; the 
lower ones often four inches long, and an inch wide; the 
upper ones fhorter and narrower. Flowers numerous and 
as it were glomerate, with feveral fhort one or two-flow¬ 
ered peduncles; on the top of the ftem and branchlets not 
fo numerous, but at length in pairs, and then folitary; 
corolla pale violet. Native of Mexico. Introduced in 
1780, by Benjamin Bewick, efq. It flowers in Auguft. 
7. Malva Americana, or American mallow : leaves cor¬ 
date, crenate; lateral flowers folitary, terminating flowers 
in fpikes. Root annual. Stem a foot high, (tiff, round, 
fomewhat hairy. Native of North America. Cultivated 
in 1759 by Mr. Miller. It flowers in June and July. 
II. With angular leaves. 8. Malva Peruviana, or Peru¬ 
vian mallow: Item upright, herbaceous; leaves palmate; 
fpikes directed one way, axillary ; feeds toothletted. This 
alfo is an annual plant. Stem from two to three feet high, 
with hairs thinly fcattered over it, ufually in pairs. Leaves 
feven-lobed, plaited, fmooth, veined, fharply ferrate; on 
petioles the length of the leaf. (Linn. Spec.) Spike di¬ 
rected to one fide, turned upwards, recurved before the 
flowers open ; corollas fmall, purple. Seeds ten, roughened 
above with many alternate teeth. According to Jacquin, 
the leaves are five or three lobed, and the flowers red. 
Miller fays, that the leaves are broad, hairy, and three- 
lobed ; the flowers fmall, pale blue, and fet very clofely 
on the fpikes, appearing in June. It grows naturally in 
Peru, whence the feeds were fent to the royal garden at 
Paris by Jofeph de JufTieu. It was cultivated by Mr r 
Miller in 1759. 
9. Malva Limenfis, or blue-flowered mallow : ftem up¬ 
right, herbaceous; leaves lobed ; fpikes directed oneway, 
axillary; feeds even. This is After to M. Peruviana; but 
the flowers are blue, not purple. According to Jacquin, 
the leaves are feven-lobed. Native of Peru, about Lima, 
It is an annual plant, and flowers in July. Introduced in 
1768 by Monf. Richard. 
10. Malva bryonifolia, or bryony-leaved mallow : ftem 
fhrubby, tomentofe; leaves pinnate, rugged; peduncles 
many-flowered. This plant is handfomely echinated on 
the difk of the leaf; and is a native of Spain. Mr. Miller 
defcribes it as having a fhrubby woolly (talk, four or five 
feet high, fending out branches on every fide, with woolly 
rough leaves. Peduncles axillary, fupporting four or five 
flowers, bright purple, fhaped like thofe of the common 
mallow : they appear in July, and the feeds ripen in au¬ 
tumn. It feldom continues more than two or three years*- 
In the Kew Catalogue it is faid to be a native of the Cape 
of Good Hope, and to have been introduced by Maflbn 
in 1774. 
11. Malva laCiea, or panicled mallow: ftern fhrubby;, 
leaves acute, cordate, villofe; petals obcordate, fhorter' 
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