1826 
* HIBISCUS Rosa sinensis. 
Single-flowered Chinese Rose Mallow. 
e 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MALVACE». 
HI BISC US—Supra, vol. 1. fol. 29. 
$ IV. KETMIA. © Carpella seu capsule loculamenta polysperma.. Semina 
glabra. Corollee expanse. Involucella 5-7-phylla. Calyx 5-lobus non 
longitudinaliter ruptus. D. C. prodr. 1. 448. 
H. Rosa-sinensis ; caule inermi arboreo, foliis ovatis acuminatis glabris basi 
integerrimis apice grossé dentatis subincisis, pedicellis folii longitudine, in- 
volucello 7-phyllo. D. C. l. c. 
H. Rosa Sinensis. Linn. sp. pl. 977. Lour. fl. cochinch. 2. 419. Cav. diss. 3. 
1. 69. f. © 
Flos Festalis. Rumph. Amb. book 6. chap. 11. t. 8. 
The double varieties of this species, crimson, yellow, 
buff, and even white, are not uncommon in collections, but 
the single state which is now represented, although much 
handsomer, is comparatively rare. 
Instead of a crowd of ragged, unequal, ill-arranged petals, 
destitute of all symmetry, occupying the centre of the flower, 
we have a long graceful curved crimson tube, terminated by 
a brush of bright yellow anthers, which surround five little 
crimson velvet cushions of stigmas. 
It is easily propagated by cuttings, but requires a good 
stove to flower in perfection. Our drawing was made in 
that of the Horticultural Society in September 1834. 
According to Loureiro this species is spontaneous both 
in China and Cochinchina ; where it is employed for many 
* See folio 1463. 
