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Malvaceae (Genus comprising only three)

A genus comprising only three species of very ornamental hardy annual glabrous or pilose herbs, confined to the Mediterranean region. Flowers violet or pink, pedunculate, showy. Leaves entire or trifid. These showy plants are of easy culture, in almost any ordinary garden soil, but they succeed best in a sandy one, and in a sunny situation. Propagated by seeds, sown either under glass, in March, or, in the open border, during the latter part of April or early in May.

M. grandiflora (large-flowered). A variety of M. trifida. M. malacoides (Mallow-like). fl. rosy-pink, tinged with purple, large, axillary, solitary, pedunculate. June. l. petiolate, oblong-ovate, crenate or pinnatifid, cuneate or cordate at the base. h. 1ft. South Europe, &c., 1710. M. trifida (three-cleft).* fl. purple or white, large; peduncles axillary, one-flowered. July to September. l. trifid, toothed, glabrous; lobes acuminated. h. 1ft. Southern Spain, 1808. The plant known in gardens as M. grandiflora is a variety of this species.