LaGUN^EA PATERSONIA. NORFOLK-ISLANH 



Lagun^ea. 



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MONADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. fimplex, 5-fidus. Sty I. 5-fidus. Cap/. 5-Iocularis, dif- 

 fepimentis contrariis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



LAGUN^EA Paterfonia ; foliis ahernis fimplicibus integer- 



riinis ovatis i'ubtus cinereis, floribus villofis. 

 HIBISCUS Patcrfonius. Bot. Repof. t. 286. 

 LAGUNyEA fquamea. Jurd. de Malmaifon y t. 42. 



Desc. Stalk fhrubby, with a rough fpotted bark, ere£t, 

 faid to grow twelve feet high : branches fliort, alternate, 

 horizontal, like the trunk. Leaves ovate, quite entire, 

 two or three inches long, dark green and dotted above, afh- 

 coloured underneath, on very fhort footftalks, which bend 

 downwards. Peduncle an inch and half long, thick, erect, 

 from the axil of the petiole. Calyx perfiftem, inferior, fimple, 

 cup-fhaped, border divided into five fegments. Corolla five- 

 petal-like but united at the bafe and falling off in one piece, 

 pale rofe- coloured ; petals flefhv, ovate, oblique, twifted, 

 acute, freckled with minute hairv fcales on the inner-fide and 

 villous on the outer: the villi lying one way extend beyond 

 the petal on one fide, which makes it appear ciliated on that 

 edge, and not on the other. Stamens monadelphous : filaments 

 very many, united into a tube almoft the whole length, but free 

 at the upper part, unequal in length : anthers yellow, roundifh. 

 Crrmen ovate, fuperior, not filling the calyx, five-celled: (Hie 

 ereft, longer than flamens : ftigma flefhy, peltate, obtulely 

 five-lobed. 



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