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HIBISCUS* Lindléi. 
Mr. Lindley's Hibiscus. ` 
"is ’ MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Marvacrx Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 33.) 
HIBISCUS.—Supra, vol. 10. fol. 860. 
H. Lindlei ; caule suffruticoso, petiolis pedunculisque scabris et aculeatis, 
foliis subrotundo-cordatis palmatim 3-7-partitis: lobis lanceolatis acu- 
minatis serratis, floribus axillaribus solitariis, involucelli foliolis linearibus 
hispidis apice bilobis, corolla patentissimá, capsulà adpresse pilosa sericea 
demüm glabrá.— Wallich plant. As. rar. 1. p. 4. tab. 4. 
This beautiful plant is a native of the Burma empire, 
near Segain, and of a mountain in Ava called Taong Dong, 
where it flowers and bears fruit in November. It has been 
also found in Tavoy, on the coast of Tenasserim, according 
to Dr. Wallich, by whom plants were brought alive to 
England in 1828, and presented by the Honourable Court 
of Directors to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden 
our drawing was taken in December last... It proves to be 
a hardy stove plant, growing with much vigour, but not 
flowering readily unless the young shoots are siruck as 
cuttings as soon as the blossoms appear, in which case it 
flowers freely, and becomes an extremely ornamental plant, 
especially in the winter months, during the whole of which 
it lowers in abundance. It is too tender to flower out of 
doors even in the summer. 
* 'IG/zxo; was the ancient Greek name of some Malvaceous plant. Nothing 
appears to be known of its derivation. The gracilis hibiscus of Virgil was 
probably some other plant. 
