meee ee: asaememeemmnans 
_. laris, E. Mey./ according to the single specimen 
~ having a gland in the middle of each calyx lobe ; but traces of a similar gland may 
Hibiscus.] MALVACES (Harv.) 171 
2. H. Ludwigii (E. & Z. No. 312); shrubby ; the slender branches 
and petioles softly pubescent ; leaves petiolate, cordate at base, 5-angled, 
or with 5 shallow, deltoid, acute lobes, the middle one longest, crenate, 
rough with scattered hairs ; peduncles axillary, shorter than the petiole; 
densely setose ; invol. of 5, broadly lanceolate, many-nerved leaflets, 
longer than the calyx ; capsule ovate-acuminate, densely setose. H. ca- 
lycularis, H. Mey.! . 
Hat. Forest of Krakakamma, and at the Kat River, #. d Z.! Drege! (Herb. 
¥ 
A tall, slightly branched, slender shrub, sometimes (according to Ecklon) rising 
above the tops of the surrounding trees, and mee 4 them gay with the abundance 
of its golden-yellow flowers. It bears the name of the late mv. Ludwig, of 
Capetown, a munificent patron of botany and horticulture, whose beautiful garden 
of Ludwigsburg, now obliterated, was, for many years, one of the attractions of 
Capetown. Se meshes 
** Involucel 8-10-14 or many-leaved. Seeds glabrous. Root perennial ; stems shrubby, 
suffruticose or herbaceous, (Sp. 3-12.) 
3. H. diversifolius (Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 551); herbaceous or suffruticose; 
branches, petioles and nerves of the leaves armed with sharp-pointed, 
hard tubercles ; lower leaves deeply 3—5-lobed, unequally toothed, upper 
elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, toothed or jagged ; flowers in terminal or 
axillary racemes, the pedicels very short and bristly ; invol. of many, rigid, 
subulate leaflets, shorter than the densely setose, tapering calyx-lobes. 
DC. Prod. 1.p.449. Bot. Reg. t. 381. H. ficulneus, Cav. Dis. t. 51. f, 2. 
E.d& Z.! 313. H. macularis, E. Mey.! 
_Has. Near the Zwartkops River, Uitenhage, Z. & Z./ Drege! (Herb. T.C.D., 4, Fi, Qoutl 
Hook., Sond.). otut Viele 
A stout, coarse-growing plant, 6-8 feet high, very harsh, rough and prickly. PeAue “um 
Branches ending in pseudo-racemes of large, yellow, dark-centred flowers. H. macw- \lng.. Qin. 
imen we have seen, seems only to differ in OL 
often be detected in the common form. = Z 
4. H. ricinifolius (E. Mey !) ; herbaceous, innly soe cent 5. 
etioles prickly ; leaves on long petioles, palmately 5—7 lobed, 
ne tally serrete, glabrescent, sprink 
acuminate alaeply and wneq Te & 
trifid hairs an prickles ; peduncles elongate, jointed be 
patently pubescent ; invol. of 9-10 narrow-linear, ciliate le 
shorter than the ovate-acuminate, thin, hispidulous calyx-lobes ; cap- 
sule sub-globose, laxly setose ; seeds glabrou: 8. HI. ricinoides, Garke ! 
. Near Po , Drege! (Herb. Sond.) | . 
; set with a fewsmall prickles and thinly sprinkled with soft 
as, yellow, with adark purple centre.—Of this I have onl 
may be merely a glabrescent form of H. vitifolius, wii 
(6. HL persicifolius (RygQY. No. 305.) ; stem shrubby, glabrescent, 
B nhe ss - tubercles ; petioles hispid ; leaves linear- — 
glistantly callous-toothed, midribbed 
iid penninerved, nearly is ; Stipules setaceous ; peduncles shorter’ 
than the leaves ; invol. 2 sybulate leaflets, shorter than the ovato- 
lanceolate, acuminate, coriaegous ‘calx-lobes, which, as well as the 
»n-yellow echinate tubercles 
