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¢ - MALVA cealycina. 
Broad-cupped Mallow. 
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Matvacem. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. IT. Stam. in tubum 
eorolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus multicapsularis; capss. verticil- 
Jate, in orbem disposite aut in unam compacte. 
MALVA. Supra fol. 295. 
Div. Foliis subindivisis. 
M. calycina, foliis cordatis crenatis indivisis piloso-hispidis, floribus solitariis 
longé pedunculatis, calyce exteriore maximo. Cavan. diss. 2. 81. t. 22. 
7 Ae 
Me careal vein: Thunb. prod. 118. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 777. 
Frutex interdiim subbiorgyalis, ramosus, subviscoso-hirsutus, cortice sep 
rubescente. Fol. undique sparsa, remotiuscula, cordata, virentia, parim 
longiora quam lata subsesquiuncialia »v. ultra, hirsuta, rugosa, sublus varicoso- - 
venosa, crenato-dentata, obsoleté sinuata, suprema non adulta sublobata; 
petiolus pluriés brevior lamina. Stipula 2 breves, ovate, obtustuscule, supra 
convere.  Pedunculi avillares, solitarii, \-flori, longiores petiolo, hirti, 
JSoliolo ad basin stipatt. Flores oblato-campanulati, carnei, inferné nervis 
puniceis radiatt, 1,5 uncice transverst. Cal. exterior 3-phyllus, @equans in- 
teriorem, foliolis ratione congenerum capensium latissimis, elliptico-ovatis, 
acuminatis, pube brevi hirtis; interior semi-5-fidus, inferné subanguloso- 
lurbinatus, superné campanulato-patens, segmentis lato-ovatis acuminatis acu- 
tissimis. Pet. rotundo-obcordata lamina oblata, summo margine sinit lato obso- 
leto subrepando-excisa, lateribus imbricato-incumbentia, infra lanugine minutis- 
sima ciliata; ungue brevi albo. Tubus stamineus § brevior corolla, basi ma- 
culis 5 puniceis inter petala pictus, inferné glaber albus, jucta infra comam 
antherosam pilorum brevium penicillis paucis barbatus: anthers nigre reni- 
Jormes, polline cinereo grumoso é spherulis levibus. Styli (12?) punicei, 
papilla stigmatosé glandulosd pallidé parim latiore capitati. 
We suspect the reason, why we do not find this shrub 
among the rest of the genus recorded in the Hortus 
Kewensis, to be, that it has been overlooked as a variety of 
some of the Cape species. Plants of it from 15 to 16 feet 
high, with the appearance of age, are met with in our collec- 
tions, and show that it is one of no very recent date in 
them. There is a spontaneous sample of it in the Banksian 
Herbarium, from the Cape of Good Hope. The specific 
name was suggested to Cavanilles by the leaves of the outer 
calyx being proportionately the broadest of any of the con- 
geners known to him. It has never been represented by any 
published coloured figure before the present. — 
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