[Illustration] PLATE CXXXV. MALVA REFLEXA. _Reflex-flowered Mallow._ CLASS XVI. ORDER VI. _of Schreb. Gen. Plant. 1789._ _MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA._ Threads united. Many Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium duplex; _exterius_ triphyllum, angustius; foliolis cordatis, acutis, persistentibus; _interius_ monophyllum, semiquinquefidum, majus, latius, persistens. COROLLA. Petala quinque, obcordata, præmorsa, plana, tubo staminum basi affixa. STAMINA. Filamenta numerosa, inferne coalita in tubum, in hujus apice et superficie secedentia et libera. Antheræ reniformes. PISTILLUM. Germen orbiculatum. Stylus cylindraceus, brevis. Stigmata plurima, setosa, longitudine styli. PERICARPIUM. Capsula subrotunda, composita e loculamentis pluribus, (tot quot stigmata) bivalvibus, virticillatim inarticulatis circum receptaculum columnare, tandem dilabentibus. SEMINA solitaria, rarius duo seu tria, reniformia. EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the _outer_ three-leaved, narrower; leaflets heart-shaped, sharp, and remaining; the _inner_ one-leaf, half five-cleft, larger, broader, and remaining. BLOSSOM. Five petals; inversely heart-shaped, appearing bit at the ends, flat, fixed to the tube of the chives at the base. CHIVES. Threads numerous, united below into a tube, at its top and surface parted and loose. Tips kidney-shaped. POINTAL. Seed-bud orbicular. Shaft cylindrical and short. Summits many, bristle-shaped, the length of the shaft. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule roundish, composed of many cells (as many as there are tips) two-valved, forming a whorl round a columnar receptacle not jointed, at length falling off. SEEDS solitary, seldom two or three, kidney-shaped. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Malva foliis cuneiformibus, inequaliter incisolobatis; petalis reflexis. Mallow with wedge-shaped leaves, unequally gashed into lobes; petals reflexed. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The Empalement, the inner and outer Cup separated from the Blossom. 2. A Blossom spread open. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The Chives, the connecting tube cut open. 5. The Seed-bud, Shaft and Summit, magnified.