170 MALVACE (Harv.) [ Hibiscus. 
Has. About the Kat River settlement, E&Z.! S. Africa, Drege/ Albany, Mrs. 
F. W. Barber! Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.). , 
Herbaceous, tall and branching, softly hairy, with velvetty leaves, 3 inches in 
diameter. Flowers in our specimens on axillary, short racemose branches, with de- 
pauperated leaves 4-3 inch long. Flowers white or rosy, on short pedicels. 
Group 2. Evpavonta. Involucel of 10-14 leaflets. 
4. P. premorsa (Willd. Sp 3. p. 833); young branches tomentose 5, 
leaves petiolate, broadly obovate or flabelliform, truncate, obtusely 
dentate, 3-5-nerved, scabrous on the upper, canescent on the lower sur- 
face ; stipules setaceous ; pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, longer than the 
leaves ; invol. of 12-14 very narrow, linear leaflets ; calyces canescent, 
segments ovate, acute. DC. Prod. 1. p.444. E. & Z. 302. Jacy. Le. 
Rar. t. 141. Cav. Diss.3.t. 41.f-1. Bot. Mag. t. 436. 
rex Bushy hills in Uitenhage and Albany, common. (Herb. T.C-D., Hook., 
nd.). 
A moderate sized shrub, with patent, straight, rod-like branches. Leaves about 
an inch long and broad, very constant in their form and pubescence ; petiole much 
shorter a Shien ta tbat bright yellow with a dark centre. Carpels downy, 
with a dorsal ridge. Ecklon and Zeyher’s var. B. has leaves thrice as large as usual, 
¥ 
_1. &. calycinus (Willd. Sp. 3. p. 
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