Tas. 4578. 
DOMBEYA mo tis. | 
Soft-leaved Dombeya. 
Nat. Ord. ByrrnERIACEm.—MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4568.) 
DomBeya mollis; arborea, ramulis pubescenti-tomentosis, foliis amplis molliter 
pubescentibus cordatis serratis trilobis lobis acuminatissimis rectis, stipulis 
ovatis acuminatis, pedunculis elongatis tomentosis apice dichotomis umbella- 
tis, filamentis-in tubum urceolatum unitis, petalis anguste lanceolatis falcato- 
flexuosis. 
AsTRAP#A mollis, Hortulan. 
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The largest of our Dombeyas, attaining, in our Palm-stove, a 
height of thirty feet, with a large spreading head of éranches. Itis 
an undescribed species (though nearest perhaps to D. triumfette- 
folia,* Bojer in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. xviii. p. 191) and was received 
at Kew many years ago from France, under the name of 4s- 
trapea mollis. The species is remarkable for its large, soft, and 
compactly tomentose leaves, and the dense capitate umbels of 
small rose-coloured flowers with narrow petals. It flowers in 
March, and the scent resembles that of Hawthorn. 
Drscr. A free, much branched at the top, spreading ; young 
branches, petioles, leaves, peduncles, and calyces everywhere 
clothed with dense stellated down, quite soft to the touch. Leaves 
on terete petioles, often a foot long, themselves nearly as long, 
cordate with a deep sinus at the base, three-lobed, the lobes 
very much acuminated and straight (not diverging), everywhere 
sharply serrated, five- to seven-nerved. Stipules moderately 
large, ovato-acuminate. Peduncles six to eight inches long, rather 
stout, erect, two or three times forked at the apex; each branch 
* D. triumfettefolia ; “ caule suffruticoso glabro, foliis petiolatis ovato-oblongis 
5-7-nerviis utrinque stellato-hispidis lobis acuminatis, pedunculis axillaribus bifi- 
dis, floribus corymbosis albis.”—It is singular if among Bojer’ s seven new species 
of Dombeya, described in the above work, this should not be included. 
MAY Ist, 1851. 
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