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HIBISCUS diversifolius, 



Various -leaved Hibiscus. 



MONA D E LPHI A POL YANDRIA. 



t Nat. ord. Malvacus. Jassiett gen. 271. Div. Ill, Stamina inde- 

 fimta. Fructus simplex multilocularis. 

 HIBISCUS. Supra vol. l.fol. 29. 



H. diversifolius, foliis quinque trilobisve obtusis dentatis, superioribus ob- 

 longo-lanceolatis indivisis, pedunculis inermibus, caule petiolisque acu- 

 ^ leatis. Willd. sp. pi. 3. 820. 

 Hibiscus diversifolius. Jacq. ic. rar. 3. t. 551. coll. 2. 307. Willd. enum. 2. 



. T 37 - 

 Hibiscus ficulneus. Camn. diss. 3. 141. t. 51. Jig. 2; (non aliorum). 



Caulis arboreus, erectus, 6-pedalis, teres, uncialis diametri et ultra, ret* 



tnosus, yiridis, villosulus, medulla aid A Jarctus, armatur aculeis brevibus 



pungentibus fuscesccntibus rectisque. Kami virgati patent. Fol. alterna, 



longe petiolata, infer iora 5-loba, superiora 34oba, summa indivisa et oblonga, 



acutiuscula, serrata, utrinque hirsutula, venosa, subtus ad nervos hispida; 



petioh's terelibus, villosis armatisque seepe subtus raris aculeis. Pedunculi 



uniflori, solitarii, breves. Cal. exterior polyphyllus ex Jbltolis plus minus 



undecim, linearibus, acutis, rigidulis, hispidis, patulis: interior etiani pilis 



albidis hispidus, longitudine exterioris, patulus, ad f 5-fidus; laciniis ovalo- 



acutis. Corollas amplce et calyce multb longioris petala ex ungue angusto dila- 



tata in laminam latissimam, rotundatam t obtusissimam, obsolete crenatam, 



patentissimam, sulphuream cum basi atrosanguineS. Stam. et stigmata tota 



atrosanguinea, polline sanguineo-miniato. Stigma 5'jidutn, capitatum, planum, 



pilosulum. Germ, kirsutunu Caps, ovaia, 5-loc. polysperma. Jacq. 1. c. 



We do not find this shrub recorded in either edition 

 of the Hortus Kewensis; but it is enumerated in Sweet's 

 Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis, and there stated to have 

 been introduced in 1798. The specimen, from which the 

 drawing has been made, was received from Mr. Herbert's 

 collection at Spofforth, where the plant is cultivated in the 

 hothouse. A native of the East Indies. 



Stem arboreous, upright, attaining the height of about 

 six feet, an inch or more in diameter, branching, green, 

 sub villous, armed with short straight pungent brownish 

 spines. Branches rodded, spreading. Leaves alternate, 

 long petioled, lower ones five-lobed, those above three- 

 lobed, uppermost undivided and oblong, rather pointed, 

 serrate, somewhat shaggily furred on both sides, veined, 

 hispid underneath at the nerves; petioles round, villous, and 



vol. v. h 



