840 XXVI. MALVACE^, (Maxwell T. Masters.) - 



leaves, bracleoles free linear prickly curving over the calyx. H. penta- 

 phyllus, F. Muell Fragm. Phyt Aust. ix. 13; MasL in Oliv. Flor. Trap. 

 Afr, i. 198 {not of RoxK), 



The Paxjab, Deccan, Concan, and Sindh, Stocks, &c.— Distbib. Affghamstan, 

 Somh tropical Africa. North Australia. j V • 



Leaves 1-3 in., oblong-lanceolate, serrate, glabrous or with numerous forked nairs; 

 petiole as long as the blade. Pidandes solitary, axillary. Bracteoles longer than the 

 calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 5-nerved, connate below into a bell-shaped tube. Corvlla 

 twice the length of the bracts, yellow with a purple centre, or all purple.^ Stamnal- 

 tube half covered with anthers. Capsule ovoid, pointed ; valves setose. Seeds pilose. 



22. K. punctatus, DakeU in Dalz. dc Gibs. Bomb. Fl 20 (1861) ; 

 annual, stellately pubescent and glutinous, leaves ovate more or less 

 3-lobed, peduncle as long as the petiole, bracteoles 8-10 linear, shorter th^ 

 the calyx connate at the base, petals scarcely exceeding the sepals. H. 

 lai^uneoides, Edyew, in Jomm. Linn. Soc. vi. 199 (1862), 



Siyun, Stocks ; Hoolt xs j Fdgeworth, , i v J 



A lax branching annual. Leaves distant, rounded ovate, acute, entire or 3-Iobea, 

 lobes oblong, sinuate-dentate ; petiole If in., shorter than the blades. Stipules minute, 

 subulate. Peduncles 1-2 in., sub-pauicled, jointed at the top. Calyx bell-sliaped; 

 sepals deltoid, lanceolate, connate below the middle. Petals rose-coloured, tavmie 

 btaked, pilose, as long as the calyx. Seeds tubercled, black. --Yields good hemp 

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23. H. Sabdariffa, X. ; DC. Proclr. i. 453 ; annual, glabrous, unarmed^ 

 stem purnlish, leaves entire or lobed glandular beneath, peduncles very sBO 



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Generally cultivated in the hotter parts of India, and in Ceylon— Distrib, Culti- 



vateil in the Tropics. 



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Erect. Leaves polymorphous, midrib glandular beneath; petiole 2 in. -^^ JL^ 



solitary, axillary, shorter than the petiole. Bracteoles and calyx accrescent.^|r° 

 dftlti ul, acuminate, connate below the middle into a purplish fleshy cup. Coroua -{ 

 diain., yellow. Capsule ovoid, pointed, villous, shorter than the calyx. Seeds renu • 

 sub-glabrous.— The Rozelle of India, and Red Sorrell of the W. Indies. 



Abelmoschus. Calyx elongate, spathaceous, circumsciss. 



* Bracteoles 4-6, hroad, leafy. 



24. H. iaculneus, Z. ; DC. Prodr. i. 448 : annual, prickly, [eff^P^.' 

 mately 3^5-lobed lobes glabrous narrowed at the base, bracteoles 5-b laj' 

 late villous fugacious, capsule ovoid. Wall. Cat. 2697 B. H- P^ iii 206- 

 Jtoxh. 11. Ind.ux. 208. H. strictus, Roxh. Ilort. Beng. 52 ; Flor.If- "'; ^^^^ 

 H. sinuatus, Cav. Diss. iii. t. ."iS f 9 AKclmnor-bns firnlneus. W. *^- l',^o 



H. sinuatus, Ca 

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Hotter parts of India, from the NoktinWest provinces and PanJAB to ^'^'^^^^^^^^ 

 . CiKCARs, and Concan (" Native of the southern provinces of the Peninsula, na^" 

 elsewhere, irtfe^. Z.C,"). "^ ' Vounae* 



Branches shining, covered with small sharp tubercles. Youvg ^«"*',f Lolhci; 

 cordate, adult hispi-l, palmateiy lobed with wide sinuses, lobes unequany j,^ 



petio e 2.i-4 in., as long as the leaves. Stipules subulate, lanceolate, caauc -.j^ 

 ^uncles half the length of the netioles, the upper in a leafless raceme, /i"'?"'* ""' 



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