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HIBISCUS pedunculatus. 
Long-stalked Cape Hibiscus. 
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MaLvaceæ. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. III. Stamina inde» 
Anita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. 
HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. 
Н. pedunculatus, foliis 5-S-Jobisve, obtusis crenatis hirsutis, peduneulis axil- 
laribus foliis duplo longioribus, corolla campanulata. Willd. sp. pl. 3, 
827. 
* Hibiscus pedunculatus. Zinn. suppl. 809. Thunb. prod. 118. Cavan. diss. 
9. 163. t. 66. f. 2. 
Frutex bipedalis, erectus, ramis teretibus viridibus hirtits villosis. Folia 
alterna, distantia, obscuré viridia, ex pilis subcompositis hirsuta, subcordato- 
rotunda, triloba (inferiora quingueloba Thunb.), dentata, sesquiunciam plig 
minis lata, firmula, supra immerse subtús elevaté nervosa; lobi distantes, 
apice rotundati, medius longior, cuneato-oblongus, brevé subacuminatus vel 
nunc retusus: petioli breviores laminá, stricti, patentes, filiformes : stipulae 
subulate, exiguee, sphacelate, caduca. Pedunculi superne in ramis axillares, 
solitarii, filiformes, stricti, triunciales, erecti, paulo infra calycem articulate 
aique geniculato-flexi. Cal. duplex: exterior virens, 8-9-phyllus, parüm 
brevior interiori, campanulatus, foliolis linearibus angustis acutis hirto-udllosis 
carinatis : interior subsemi5-fidus, parúm ezcedens tertiam partem uncia, 
lidior, pilis penicellatis v. stellatis pubescens, segmentis lanceolatis carinatas 
uninerotis. “Cor. rosea, nutans, obconico-campanulata, pauls пута 2 unciase 
longa, extús villosiuscula еі neroosa, subinequalis oblique patula, laciniis 
obovato-v. cuneato-oblongis, apice obliquato-rotundis, subretusis cum тистот о, 
und infmá majore. Tubus stamineus pallid? roseus, E brevior corolld, sue 
ern versis interrupt? staminiferus ; fil. vaga, dissita, зар? binata, brevia 2 
anth, subrotunde ; pollen 2 spherulis incarnatis granulosum. Styli 5, tubum 
stamineum superantes, rosei: stig. globosa, pilosa, ра? rosea, 
Introduced subsequently to the publication of the last 
edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and not represented by 
any figure from the living plant. А native of the Cape 
of Good Hope, where it was observed by Thunberg growing 
in the woods at a place called Galgebosche. It forms a very 
ornamental greenhouse-plant, and blossoms freely about 
July. Тһе beauty of its large rose-coloured flowers is 
greatly enhanced by the dusky green of the foliage. 
Ап upright shrub, in the specimen we saw little more 
than 2 feet high, with round green roughly furred branches. 
Leaves alternate, distant, dark green, hirsute, subcor- 
dately round, 3-lobed, toothed, an inch and half (more or 
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