Duke, its large and truly beautiful flowers were expanded 
in November, 1840. I have thought it worthy to bear the 
name of this illustrious family, and to commemorate thereby 
the services rendered to Botanical science by the present 
possessors of Woburn, under whose auspices the collection 
of plants is maintained with undiminished splendour. 
It will be at once seen that this belongs to the ABuTILON 
group, or Genus, as it is now almost universally considered, 
of Sipa, and that its affinity is with Sma picta, figured 
by us in the number of the. Magazine for October, 1840, 
(Tab. 3840,) but from which it is abundantly distinct, espe- 
cially in the form of the calyx and petals. 
Descr. A small tree, with rounded, glabrous branches. 
Leaves also glabrous, the older ones of very large size, the 
others smaller, all of them deeply cordate, acuminate, 
bluntly dentato-serrate, seven-nerved, the principal nerves 
united by numerous transverse ones. Peduncles as long as, 
or longer than the leaf. Stipules small, subulate, soon 
deciduous. Peduncles from the axils of the younger leaves, 
and about equal in length with those leaves, solitary, or 
more frequently two together, erect, furnished with a joint 
(whence the flower often falls before it has ripened fruit), 
glabrous. Calyx clothed with minute pulverulent down, 
short and broad, urceolate, truncated and even indented at 
the base where the peduncle is inserted, contracted at the 
mouth ; cut nearly half-way down into five, reflexed, acute 
segments. Petals large, handsome, yellow, richly veined 
with blood colour, broadly rotundate, concave, erecto- 
patent, imbricating with the edges, suddenly contracted 
into a short, broad claw, which has a glandular depression. 
Stamens about equal in length with the corolla: anthers 
numerous. Ovaries densely woolly. Style divided from 
below the middle into a number of slender, filiform 
branches, each tipped with a capitate, yellow stigma. Fruit 
(as in the native specimens gathered by Mr. GARDNER) 
large, of many compressed, downy carpels or follicles. 
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Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Ovaries: magnified. 
