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ers whitifh-red, final), on one-flowered peduncles. Native 
of China and Cochin-china. It flowers in June and July. 
30. Malva crifpa, or curled mallow : flem upright; leaves 
angular, curled; (fee Botany Plate IV. fig. 22. vol. iii.) 
flowers axillary, glomerate. This alfo is annual, with an 
upright Hem four or five feet high. Lower leaves a hand 
wide, on long petioles; the upper ones fmaller, on Ihorter 
petioles; the uppenfioft very fmall, almoft feflile; all ob- 
fcurely angular, finuate, bright green, pubefcent. Flowers 
fmall in proportion to fo large a plant, like thofe of M. 
rotundifolia in fize and colour. Native of Syria, and now 
become a denizen of Germany and Silefia. Cultivated in 
1596, by Gerarde. It flowers from June to Auguft. 
31. Malva alcea, or vervain mallow : Item upright; leaves 
many-parted, fomewhat rugged. Root long, branched, 
perennial. Stem from two to three feet high, round, 
rugged, hairy; hairs in bundles, fpreading; branches al¬ 
ternate. Leaves alternate, femiorbicular, five-parted to 
the bafe, with the lobes oblong, bright green, vvhitifh un¬ 
derneath, pubefcent. Flowers terminating, in panicles or 
bundles ; calyx fmall in proportion to the fize of the co¬ 
rolla, pubefcent; corolla an inch and a half or two inches 
long, five-parted to the bafe, bright purple; capfules very 
fmooth, firlt green, then black, about twenty-four in 
number. Native of many parts of Europe, but not of 
Great Britain, as has been generally fuppofed. No other 
than M. mofchata being found in the counties of War¬ 
wick, Leiceller, and Nottingham, as appears from the 
repeated obfervations of botanitts, who have carefully 
fearched for it in thofe counties. This differs fo entirely 
from M. mofchata, that it could not well have been mif- 
taken or overlooked. Ray mentions but one in his own 
edition of the Synopfis; and what Dillenius adds in the 
third edition, is not from his own obfervation. 
32. Malva mofchata, or mufk-mallow: Item upright; 
root-leaves kidney-form, gafhed ; ftem-leaves five-parted, 
pinnate multifid. Root-leaves roundifh, kidney-fhaped, 
entire, except being crenate on the margin. Firft Item- 
leaves three-lobed, divided half way down ; fide-lobes di¬ 
vided again into two or three, but not fo deeply ; above 
thefe they are three-lobed to the footftalk; lobes again 
deeply divided ; divifions deeply jagged ; higher ones five- 
lobed, lobes pinnatifid, fegments of the upper ones more 
and more divided, and narrower; uppermott linear. Stem 
round, much branched, Rightly hairy ; at the origin of 
each branch two lanceolate hairy Itipules. Flowers crowded 
on the top of the Item and branches on lhort peduncles, 
and fingleones from the axils of the upper leaves. Petals 
heart-fliaped, divided nearly to the bafe, pale red or flefli- 
coloured, with deeper veins. Styles fourteen to eighteen. 
Capfules about fifteen, kidney-form, comprefled, papery, 
black, thickly fet with pale villofe hairs, efpecially on the 
back. Seeds fmooth, pale afh-coloured. 
This differs from the preceding, with which our Englifli 
botanitts have confounded it, in having the ftem not fo 
tall, with folitary upright hairs rifing from a prominent 
little point. The flowers are of an ambrofial or mufky 
(cent; this fmell, however, is not always to be perceived, 
and, the circumfcription of the upper leaves being fome- 
times lengthened out into a triangular form, thefe two 
circumftances have probably caufed it to be miftaken for 
M. alcea. Mr. Curtis, having cultivated both fpecies to¬ 
gether, found M. alcea grow nearly to twice the height 
of this; to be in every refpedt a ftronger plant, and harfher 
to the touch; the leaves of the ftalk much lefs jagged ; 
the corollas fimilar, but the calyxes remarkably different, 
the outer leaflets in mofchata being lanceolate or fome- 
times almoft linear; in the alcea ovate, with a large pro¬ 
tuberant ring near the bafe. Native of many parts of 
Europe: not uncommon in Great Britain, particularly 
the midland counties, in Hertfordfhire, Huntingdonfhire, 
Derbyfliire, and the north; in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cam- 
bridgefhire, fparingly ; Curtis mentions its growing plen¬ 
tifully near Coomb-wood : it occurs alfo near Balham in 
Surry, by the five-mile ltone on the Epfom road. Gerarde 
lays, “ it groweth by the diteh-fides on the left hand of 
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the place of execution by London, called Tybornc; near 
Bufhey, on the backfide of a gentleman’s houfe named 
matter Robert Wylbraham ; among the bufites and hedges 
as you go from London to a bathing-place called the Old 
Foorde ; in the butties as you go to Hackney, a village by 
London ; and divers other places, as at Baflingburne in 
Hartfordfliire, three miles from Roitton.” Mr. Goodyer 
found it with white flowers in a clofe near Maple-Dur- 
ham in Hampfhire called Aldercrofts. Aboirt Duplin, 
near Perth, See. in Scotland. This is delineated at fig. 2. 
from the Flora Danica. 
33. Malva Tournefortiana, or Tournefort’s mallow: 
ftem decumbent; root-leaves five-parted, five-leaved, three- 
lobed, linear; peduncles longer than the ftem-leaf. This 
is an annual plant. Leaves cut into five obtufe lobes al¬ 
moft to the bottom, and thefe deeply cut on their fide. 
The flowers fiand upon very long peduncles; the calyx is 
large, prickly, and acute-pointed; the corolla is blue, 
and four times as large as the calyx. Native of Provence 
and Spain, on the coaft. Gerard doubts whether this be 
different from M. mofchata. 
34. Malva Asgyptia, or palmated mailow : ftem upright; 
leaves palmate, toothed; corollas fmaller than the calyx. 
This alfo is an annual plant, with ftalks about a foot long, 
fmooth and declining. Flowers from the axils, and at 
the top, in clutters; corollas fmall, pale blue, and not 
longer than the calyx. It is allied to the preceding. Na¬ 
tive of Egypt. Cultivated in 1739, by Mr. Miller ; flow¬ 
ers in June and July. 
Propagation and Culture. Sow the feeds of the hardy 
forts at the end of March, upon a bed of frefh light earth ; 
and, when the plants are three or four inches high, tranf- 
plant them where they are to continue, allowing them 
fufficient fpace. They appear belt when intermixed with 
other flowers of the fame growth. The feeds may alfo 
be fown in Auguft, for mod of them will endure the 
greateft cold of our climate, on a dry foil, and thefe plants 
will grow larger and flower fooner than thofe which are 
fown in the fpring ; or, if the feeds be permitted to fcat- 
ter, they will come up and thrive equally with thofe which 
are fown. The feeds of thofe forts which come from hot 
countries ntuft be fown upon a hot-bed in the fpring. 
When the plants are fit to remove, plant each in a fmall 
pot filled with light frefh earth, and plunge them into a 
new hot-bed, (hading them until they have taken frefh 
root; admit free air to them in proportion to the warmth 
of the feafon, and at the end of June they may be placed 
in the open air in a fheltered fituation, where they will 
flower and produce ripe feeds. Some of the fpecies re¬ 
quire the protection of the bark-ftove. See Hibiscus, 
Lavatera, Malachra, Malope, Nap^ea, Sida, and 
Urena. 
MAL'VA ARBOREA. See Hibiscus and Lavatera. 
MAL'VA ROSEA. See Alcea, Dillenia, Hibiscus. 
MALVA'CEOUS, adj. [malva, Lat.J Relating to mal¬ 
lows. 
MALVA'NA, a.town of the ifland of Ceylon: twelve 
miles eaft of Columbo. 
MALVA'SIA, a town of European Turkey, fituated 
on a promontory, on the eaft coaft of the Morea, which 
is almoft furrounded by the fea; with a good harbour, 
but not large. It is the fee of a Greek archbifhop, and 
one of the ltrongeft towrns in the Morea. The wine pro¬ 
duced in the neighbourhood was formerly much valued. 
Under the name of Malmfey. The ancient name of this 
place was Epidaurus : forty miles eaft-foiitk-eaft of Mifitra. 
Lat. 36. 52. N. Ion. 23. 4. E. 
MALVAVIS'CUS,/. in botany. See Hibiscus. 
MALVEN'TRE, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of 
Sardinia : five miles fouth of Cofia-di-Donna. 
MALU'CA, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Trux- 
illo, on the coaft : forty-five miles north of Payta. Lat. 4. 
25. S. 
MALVEN'DA (Thomas), a learned Spanifh dominican 
monk, was born at Xativa in Valentia, in the year 1565. 
He was inltructed in the Latin language and philofophy 
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