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* HIBISCUS lilacinus. 
Lilac Hibiscus. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MALVACEZ. 
HIBISCUS. Supra, vol. 1. fol. 29. 
.$ XI. Lacunaria. Involucellum subnullum, nempè reductum ad marginem 
prominentem subintegrum dentatumve, aut 1-phyllum deciduum. DC. 
prodr. 1. 454. i 
H. lilacinus ; glaber, foliis integris tripartitisque filiformibus vel trifidis paren- 
chymatosis : laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis in inferioribus pinnatifidis 
grossé dentatis, involucello obsoleto aut 6-partito laciniis subulatis, calycis 
laciniis acuminatis tricostatis tubo duplò longioribus, corolla infundibulari 
calyce duplo longiore, stigmate clavato indiviso. — 
Caulis orgyalis, glaber, teres. Folia in plantá spontaned filiformia, in 
cultá dilatata. Involucelli dentes in spontaned subulati cultá obsoleti. 
A beautiful new Hibiscus, obtained from seeds sent home 
from Swan River by Sir James Stirling, and raised with his 
usual skill and success by Mr. Robert Mangles, to which 
gentleman I am indebted for a/wild specimen from Swan 
River. The latter is so little like the garden plant that, 
under other cireumstances, I should have hesitated to con- 
sider them the same, for the leaves are filiform instead of 
being flat and broad as in the figure, while the involucellum, 
which can hardly be said fo exist at all in the garden plant, 
consists of six distinct subulate teeth in the spontaneous 
Specimen.  - i KANT 
approaches the H. hakeefolius: of 
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