Malachra
(name used by Pliny to denote a Persian tree). ORD. Malvaceae. A genus comprising five or six species of stove hispid herbs, all indigenous to the warmer parts of America, one or two being also broadly dispersed over the warmer parts of Asia and Africa. Flowers yellow, white, or rose, in dense, axillary or terminal heads, with leafy involucral bracts; calyx five-toothed or cut; column shorter than the stamens. Leaves angular or lobed. The species are of no great horticultural value. M. fasciata requires to be raised from seed, in a hot-house, and, when large enough, to be placed singly into small pots.
M. fasciata (fasciate). fl. rose; heads shortly pedunculate, three-leaved, about five-flowered. August and September. l. almost round, obsoletely lobed. Stems villous. h. 1ft. Caraccas, 1819. (B. R. 467.)