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ACHANIA mollis, a. 
Lobed-leaved woolly Achania, 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
ACHANIA. (Stam. in tubum corolliferum connata, indefinita, 
Fructus simplex multiloc.) Cad. tubulosus 10-striatus 5-dentatus, caliculo 
8-phyllo cinctus (uterque persistens). Pet. convoluta, basi hinc auricu- 
lata. Anth. in apice & superficie tubi contorti. Stylus 1; stig. 10. 
Bacca 5-loc., 5-sperma.  Fruter; flores solitarii axillares. Jussieu, 
gen. 273; sub Matvavisco. 
A. mollis, foliis tomentosis, foliolis calycis exterioris patulis. Hort. Kew. 
2.459. Ed. 2. 4.233. Willd. sp: pl. 3. 839. 
(«) foliis angulatis. Dryander. in sched. banks. 
Achania mollis. « Andrews’s reposit. 452, . 
(8) foliis indivisis. _.Dryander. loc. cit. 
Achania mollis. © Thompson’s bot. displ. t. 5. 1 
Caulis teres, erectus, tomentosus, supra distantér & divaricaté ‘ramosus. 
Folia, petiolata, remota, mollia, canescentia, ovata et indivisé acuminata ». 
ovato-triloba lobo medio angulato-attenuato lateralibus brevissimis, petiolo 
aliquotiés longiora, subserrato-dentata, Flores longitts pedunculati, erecti, 
unciales, in flit rameis & caulinis supernis. Cal. exter. sub-8 phyllus ; 
foliola patula: inter. monophyllus, hing fissuré und ceteris profundiore 
uterque villosus, Cor, turbinato-convoluta: pet. 5, obovato-oblonga, hinc bast 
aucta lobo columnam stamineam involvente. Tubus stamineus apice 5-den- 
tatus; anth. ex oblongis orbiculatim dehiscentes ; pollen é sph@rulis levibus 
grossits granulatum. Stigmata fimbriata, punicea. 
We have two varieties of this species in our gardens: the 
one with ovate-oblong undivided acuminate leaves intro- 
duced from Jamaica; the other, the present plant, intro- 
duced in 1780 by Mr. Benjamin Bewick, from South Ame- 
rica. We have also two other species of the genus, presently 
distinguishable by the foliage, but very similar in the bloom 
to each other. All of them grow in a loose wide-spreading 
way, so as to take up much room, but Malvaviscus far more 
so than the present; of which we have never seen any 
specimen that has exceeded four feet. When its flowers, 
which stand in the axils of the upper leaves of the stem and 
branches, are numerous, it is very ornamental, more so than 
either of the other two, In Malvaviscus, which is the 
largest growing, and of the oldest date of the three with 
us, the foliage is of a dark shining green and rough, in the 
present grey and clouded, being covered with a short, 
