858 MALVACEAE 
Leaf-blades with long narrow lobes: bractlets of the involucel 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, persistent: 2. A. Manihot. 
l. A. esculentus (L.) Moench. Plant 9-20 dm hirsute: leaf-blades 
1-3:dm. broad, with 5-7 ovate, lanceolate, or spe ne. coarsely toothed or 
incised segments: corolla greenish- 
c 
capsule columna —21 — pu 
G )—Waste-plaees, gardens, and cult 
grounds, Coastal Plain, t t 
of Africa and cult.—(W. I.)—Spr. —fal 
The unripe capsules are a very neem 
esculent. 
2. A. Manihot (L.) Medic d usually 
20—25 dm. tall, ultimately glabro leaf- 
blades 1-4 dm. in diameter, wit -9 
: — ult. 
ern and river-banks, Coastal Plain, 
Fla. to Tex. Nat. of Asia and cult—Sum.— 
fall. 
15 TRIONUM Medic. Annual pubescent herbs. Leaf-blades palm- 
ately 3—5-lobed. Flowers solitary at ea ends of the branches. Involucels 
of several-many narrow bractlets: sep 
united into a ribbed and shallowly 1 be d 
ealyx, which is persistent and inflated at 
maturity. Petals 5, broad. Carpels forming 
a short capsule which is included in the per- 
sistent calyx. Seed glabrous.—One species. 
1. T. Trionum (L.) Wooton & Standley. 
Plant 1—4 dm. tall, hispid: leaf-blades ovate , 
pat 
vwd ‘bractlets about 1 em. lon ed calyx- 
lobes t pons ular: petals yellow 2 Mare 
with a purple or brown- -purple blo 
eu about 1.5 em. long. [Hibiscus pos d |—(FLOWER-OF-AN-HOUR. BLAD 
DER- iiw UL a fields, and waste-places, eic provinees, Fla. to 
N. M., S. D. and N. S. Nat of Eu. and eult.—Sum 
16. PARITI Adans. Shrubs or trees, d Hibiscus in habit, but 
with the braetlets of the involucel united into a lobed cup.—About 4 species 
tropieal.—Spr. or all year. 
Petals straight or spreading at the tip, pure-yellow, becoming der pink: cap- 
sule velvety: seeds papillose. . P. tiliaceum, 
Petals strongly recurved, bronze or orange and blood-red toward 
the ud QBSVOSMBE very dark-red: capsule hirsutulous: seed 
hirsutul 2. P. grande. 
1. P. tiliaceum (L.) S t. Hil. Shrub or large tree, the young parts velvety- 
tomentose: leaf-blades thick, suborbicular to orbicular-ovate, mostly 1-2 dm. 
