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HIBISCUS strigosus. 
Strigose Hibiscus. 
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MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MALVACEZ. t 
HIBISCUS, L—Calyx cinctus involucello sæpius polyphyllo, rarius 
foliolis paucis aut inter se coalitis. Petala hinc non auriculata. Stigmata 5. 
Carpella in capsulam 5-locularem coalita, valvis intus medio septiferis, locu- 
lis polyspermis aut rarius 1-spermis. Dec. prodr. 1. 446. 
Sect. VI. Abelmoschus. Carpella polfBperma. Semina glabra, aut in 
dorso linea subvillosa. Corolle expanse. Involucella foliolis 8-15 integris 
constantia. 
$ 2. Caule inermi. 
*** Species frutescentes. Dec. l. c. 
H. strigosus, caule suffruticoso strigoso, foliis trilobis angulatis cordatis 
dentatis tomentosis, pedunculo petiolo longiore, involucelli foliolis 12 
hispidis linearibus apice appendiculatis. 
Suffrutex, ramis pallidis, subangulatis, villosis. Folia cordata, quando- 
que cordato-ovata, sepius triloba, erenato-dentata, tomentosa, subangulata, 
lobo medio ovato lateralibus rectangulis majore: petiolo villoso, lamina lon- 
gitudine ; stipulis subulatis, deciduis. Flores solitarii, axillares, pedunculo 
villoso foliorum ferè longitudine. involucrum 12-phyllum, calycis longitu- 
dine, foliolis linearibus, erectis, strigosis, apice lamina plana, ovata ap- 
pendiculatis. Calyx campanulatus, 5-lobus, strigoso-pilosus, lobis ovatis 
obtusis. Corolla magna, carnea, expansa, petalis obliquis, falcatis, undu- 
latis, obtusis, striatis. Anthere plurime, colummares. Stigmata 5, pa- 
tentia. 
For the fine species of Hibiscus, now for the first time 
published, we are obliged to A. B. Lambert, Esq. who raised 
it, in his garden at Boyton, from seeds sent from South 
America by Mr. Pavon. It does not appear referable to any 
of the species enumerated by M. Decandolle in his Prodro- 
mus; and is very curiously and certainly characterized 
by the appendages of the involucrum. In this respect it 
approaches the section of the genus with forked leaflets to 
the involucrum, and perhaps ought to be referred thither. 
From that section, however, it differs so essentially in habit, 
that we have preferred referring it to the Abelmoschus 
tribe, to the species of which it is much more naturally 
related. 
