Velvetleaf or hibiscus, e.g.

Usage examples of mallow.

It was a joke often repeated in the Mallow household that Prudence had been well-named.

A dozen times a day Miss Mallow or her mother was forced to admire his pastel blobs, reading into them character, beauty, sentiment, and all else they lacked.

The only difference putting on her cap made to Miss Mallow was that she thought rather more than she used to about marriage.

An invitation to the same party was extended by letter to Miss Mallow as a special treat.

The description sounded very much like it, and Miss Mallow felt overcome.

I am so ill prepared is that I have spent the whole afternoon reading another book by that Miss Mallow you recommended.

My Miss Mallow could not by the broadest interpretation be called impertinent.

Dammler spent many afternoons with Miss Mallow, but his evenings were still given over to his customary pursuits.

Miss Mallow was exactly the kind of cultivated lady he required to lend him a little tone.

Seville had called on Miss Mallow two days after the ball and found her out with Dammler.

For that matter, Miss Mallow should know better than to be here with him alone.

The next afternoon, Miss Mallow was honoured once again with a call from Dammler.

Do me a favour, Miss Mallow, put them back on and start pretending you are forty or so again, so I can stop worrying about you.

Miss Mallow was becoming known to Society, more through her association with Dammler than through her writings, and Seville was not the only gentleman who was beginning to look in her way.

He wanted a mistress who would set him above the common herd, and thought he had hit on a capital idea in having Miss Mallow fill the position.