FLORA NIGRITIANA. 229 
` The H. diversifolius (Hibiscus, Jacq., H. scaber, Mich.), a 
N. American species, is a native of Senegal, as is also A. rostel- 
latus, Guill. et Perr.; and four species, H. versicolor, H. 
triumfettefolius, H. congener, and H. obtusatus, are described 
by Schumacher from Guinea. 
The old genus, Hibiscus, is a very important one in W. Africa, 
there being, besides the above-enumerated species : one of Bom- 
bycella: Hibiscus clandestinus, Cav., from Senegal; three of 
Cremontia, all natives of Senegal : H. Senegalensis, Cav., H. tu- 
bulosus, Cav. (also an E. Indian plant), and H. ribesifolius, Guill. 
et Perr. ; one sp. of Fugosia: F. digitata, Pers. ; and three of 
Pavonia : P. Zeylanica, Willd., P. triloba and P. hirsuta, Guill. 
et Perr. 
1. Gossypium Barbadense, L.—G. punctatum et G. prostratum, 
Schum. et Thonn. Beskr., p. 310, 311.— Fernando Po and 
Cape Palmas, Vogel, (near habitations). 
Var. ? hirsutum, ramis molliter et patentim pilosis, seminibus 
Obovatis fusco-castaneis glabriusculis, ubique v. basi gossy- 
pinis, gossypio albo.— Sierra Leone, Miss Turner, (in Herb. 
Hook.); Accra, Don. 
Dr. Vogel’s specimens being in flower only, I cannot deter- 
mine the variety to which it may belong. Don’s specimens 
differ from Miss Turner’s only in the seeds being cottony all 
over, 
1. Wissadula rostrata.— Sida rostrata, Schum. et Thonn., Beskr. 
P. 306— S8. stellata, G, Don, Gard. Dict. 1. p. 499.—Abutilon 
laxiflorum, Guill. et Perr., Fl. Seneg. p. 66.—A. parviflorum, 
A. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. 1. p. 201.—Sida periplocifolia, 
B. caribea, DC. Prodr. 1. p. 468.—Abutilon periplocifolium, 
Don, Webb, supra, p. 108.—Cape Coast, Vogel, Thonning ; 
St. Thomas, Don. ; Senegal. 
Var. £. foliis subrugosis.—Accra, Vogel. 
A common West Indian plant, closely allied to W. hirsuta, 
Presl, but apparently differing, as well in the absence of the 
rigid hairs characteristic of that species, as by the fruit, of 
which the carpels are more divergent at the apex, with longer 
points. The Ceylonese plant, which probably originally "E 
gested the specific name periplocifolia, appears to be quite dis- 
