82 MONADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. 
outer calix wanting, leaves mostly trifid, canescently to- 
mentose. Has. From the confluence of the river Platte 
- and the Missouri, often extending over the plains in salt. 
quantities as to communicate a brilliant redness to th 
sands of acres. This plant has no sort of aflinity tor Cris 
taria, and by the fruit is a genuine Malya. 
A genus of more than 60 species; many of them indi- 
genous to tropical America, to the Cape of Good Hope, : 
and some to Europe. : 
479. MALOPE. L. 
Calix double; exterior 3-leaved, Capsules 1- 
seeded, aggregated without order. 
Leaves entire or lobed, flowers axillary, mostly solitary. 
Specres. 1. JV. malacoides. v.s. in the herbarium of 
Stephen Elliot, Esq., Charleston—Of this genus there are 
2 other species in Greece and Barbary. 
480. HIBISCUS. L. 
Calia double; exterior many-leaved. Stigmas 
mostly 5. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. 
Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves entire or palmately lobed; 
flowers axillary and terminal. 
Srecres. 1. H. Moscheutos. 2. palustris. 3. grandi- 
florus. 4, incanus. 5. virginicus. 6. militaris. 7. speciosus. 
8..Manihot. 9. scaber. 10. esculentus. Cultivated. Origi- 
nally from India. It flowers and ripens seeds in the gar- 
~ dens of Pennsylvania. 
A tropical genus containing about 70 species, chiefly 
~ indigenous to America, India and its islands, a few species 
extend to the temperature zone, Persia, the Cape of Good 
Hope and North America; the flowers of many are splen- 
did, and some of the species are aborescent. 
4st. HALESIA, L, (Snow-drop Tree.) - 
_ C€aliw 4-toothed, superior. Corolla 4-cleft. 
Nut corticate, quadrangular, 2 or 4 of the an- 
Hs gles alated, 2 to 4-celled, 2 to 4-seeded. 
Trees with alternate entire leaves; peduncles 1-flow- 
ted, laterally aggregated upon the branches; flowers sub- 
pendulous. (Germ in H. tera, 4.celled, 
coh sound nut y abortion 1 to 4-celled 1to4 
5 . Species. 1.H. tetraptera. In Carcies, Georgia and Flo- 
: rida, and ¢ on the banks of French Broad and other rivers 
