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HIBISCUS pheniceus. | 
Small purple-flowered Hibiscus. 
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. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
7, „Nat. ord. Marvaceæ. Jussieu gen, 271. Div. ИТ. Stamina indè- 
finita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. 
HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. 
H. pheeniceus, foliis ovatis acuminatis, serratis, inferioribus subcordatis tri- 
cuspidatis, pedunculis articulatis, seminibus lanatis. Willd. sp. pl. S. 
813. 
. Hibiscus pheeniceus. Lian. suppl. 910. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 11. t. 14. 
Cavan. diss. З. 157. t. 67. f. 2. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 225. ` 
Frutex ex radice ramosá caulem promit erectum teretem lignosum, calami 
ей majore crassitie, leucophazum, juniorem virentem, glabrum, à 3 ad 6 pedes 
„altum, lentum, tandèm ex longitudine debilem : rami virgati, teretes, virides, viz 
notabili asperitate donantur. (Jacq. 1. c.) Fol. sparsa, distantia, ovato- 
“acuminata, obscurà virentia hirtiuscula, longiora subsesquiuncialia, crenato- 
“serrata, (modó inequalitér magis minüsve versus inferiora. triloba jaca) 
petioli subunciales, villosi, prop? laminam cum genü crassiore flexi. Pedunculi 
„axillares, solitarii, 1-flori, sublongiores foliis, pilis raris hispidiusculi, patuli, 
"teretes, biunciales v. ultra, stricti, supra medium at longè infra florem nudo- 
articulati, indeque crassiores. Cal. exterior 9-phyllus, radiato-patens, equalis 
"änteriori, obscurà virens, asperiusculus, foliolis angustissimis, lineari-subu- 
latis: interior pallidior, membranaceus, ultra medium 5-fidus, campanulatus, 
villoso-ciliolatus, segmentis lanceolatis cuspidatis S-nerviis. Cor. punicea, exe 
planato-patens, sesquiunciam transversa, exsuperans calycem ; pet. oblongo- 
-cuneata, apice rotunda v. subretusa, basi in tubum obtegentem germen connata. 
Germ. tectum, ovatum, pallidà virens, villosum. Tubus stamineus, declina» 
tus, corolla concolor, pen? de basi ramuloso-antheriferus: amh. rotunda, 
-әйеШіпа vel aurantiaca. Styli 5, punicei, filiformes, «equales. corolla, tane 
dem reflectendi ut stigmata admoveantur antheris pro polline ezcipiendo г stig. 
capitata, 
Phæniceus and hirtus are now generally included in the 
same species as varieties. We have however omitted the 
synonymy of the latter, as we have not had an opportunity of 
comparing the two in the living plant. Jacquin tells us 
that he brought the seed of the specimen he treats of, in the 
place we have cited, from South America, without saying 
that it was indigenous of that country. By every one else 
the species is spoken of as a native of the Fast Indies. 
Requires to be kept in the stove, where it will produce а 
succession of bloom nearly the summer through. Ішіго- 
duced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1796. 
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