194 xxv. Malvaceae (masters). [Kosteletztya. 



1. K. adoensis, Hochst. ex TFalp. Ann. ii. 143. A large herb or 

 undershrub, with erect, rod-like branches, traversed by a line of hairs along 

 one side, and which shifts at every joint to the opposite side. Leaves on long 

 stalks, roundish, cordate, acuminate, 3-nerved, sometimes 3-cuspidate, coarsely 

 serrate, slightly hairy. Stipules linear, ciliolate. Peduncles very slender, 

 branched, scarcely so long as the petioles. Bractlets 7-10, linear-lanceolate, 

 hairy. Calyx longer than the epicalyx, 5-lobed, its lobes oval-lanceolate, 

 ciliate. Corolla yellow with a purple centre, twice the size of the calyx. 

 Capsule hispid, depressed, pentagonal, deeply furrowed, dehiscing at the 

 salient angles, 5-celled, 5-seeded. Seeds flat. — Hibiscus terniflorus, Garcke 

 in Bot. Zeit. vii. 833. 



Nile Land. Sennar, Heughlin ; Abyssinia, Salt ! Pearce ! Schimper ! Dillon and 

 Petit ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Island of Zanzibar, Bouton ! 



Garcke, in Schweinfurth's ' Beitriige,' mentions, under the var. hispidissima, a form of 

 this species covered with long spreading hairs, which I have not seen. 



10. SENEA, Cav. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 207. 



Bractlets 3, large, cordate, ultimately membranous. Calyx short, 5- 

 toothed. Ovary 5-celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 5, dilated above, 

 obliquely truncated at the top. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds solitary in each 

 cell by abortion, reniform, ascending, pubescent or villose. — An undershnil) 

 covered with fine down. Flowers yellow or purple. — Serraa (errore), Cav. 

 1. c. Dumreichera, Steud. and Hochst. in PI. Schimp. Abyss. 



1. S. incana, Cav. Diss. ii. 83. t. 35./. 3; DC. Trod. i. 457- A 

 much-branched uiulershrub, its herbaceous portions covered with soft down. 

 Leaves on long stalks, roundish, cordate, palmately 3-5-lobed, denticulate. 

 Stipules fugitive, setaceous, tomentose. Peduncles solitary, axillary, con- 

 tinuous, not jointed, sometimes crowded in long, terminal or axillary, erect, 

 leafy racemes. Epicalyx of 3 oval, cordate, membranous, palminerved leaf- 

 lets. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-fid, its segments equal, lanceolate-acute, submeni- 

 branous. Petals wedge-shaped, obovate, oblique, violet below, yellow above, 

 or all violet, shorter than the involucre, but double the size of the calyx. 

 Style 5-fid. Ovary 5-furrowed, 5-celled, with 2 ovules attached to the inner 

 angle of each cell. Capsule ovoid, roundish, reticulate, membranous, locu- 

 licidally 5-valved, the valves opposite to the calyx-lobes, their marquis 

 slightly winged. Seeds solitary by abortion, spotted with black dots am 

 pilose.— Decaisne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 2. t. iv. 70. t. 4. S. arabica, 

 Webb, Frag. Fl. yEthiop. 48. S. nubica, Webb, 1. c. 



Nile Land. Kordofan, KoUchy I Abyssinia, Ehrenberg ; Sennar, Duke of W r * irtem . 6 ^ 

 This singular plant is also a native of Arabia and Scinde. The variations in the siz 

 the calyx and bractlets are too inconstant to be considered of specific importance. 



11. HIBISCUS, Medik; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i- 207. 



Epicalyx of 5 or more distinct or more or less connate bractlets. v . 

 5-lobed or toothed. Staminal column truncate or 5-toothed at the suiw • 

 Ovary 5-celled with 3 or more ovules in each cell. Style simple below, < i 



