176 MALVACE (Harv.) [ Hibiscus. 
duneles axillary, solitary, as long as the leaves; invol. of 10-12 narrow- 
linear, piloso-ciliate leaflets twice as long as the ovate-acuminate calyx lobes; 
capsule depressed, transversely rigid and furrowed, glabrous, the seeds pu- 
berulous. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius! (Herb. Hook., Sond.) 
Stems many from the same crown, spreading, alternately branched. Leaves 
scarcely an inch long, on petioles of their own length. Flowers small, reddish buff 
colour (“‘ rosy” Sond.). Very like Pavonia odorata, Willd., but besides differing 
generically, it wants the glandularly viscid pubescence of that species. 
**** Tnvolucel many leaved. Root annual. (Sp. 19-22.) 
19. H. Trionum (Linn.) ; annual, hairy ; leaves polymorphous, mostly 
deeply 3-5 lobed or partite, the segments coarsely toothed and incised, 
the lower leaves (sometimes all the leaves) ovate or oblong, less densely 
cut or simply toothed; peduncles axillary ; ‘involucels of about 10 
nartrow-linear, hairy and ciliate leaflets ; calyces 5-angled, inflated, 
becoming bladdery after flowering, the segments broadly ovate, blunt, 
with many-hispid nerves ; capsules many-seeded, hispid, seeds smooth. 
DC. Prod. 1. p.453. Cav. Diss. t. 64. f. 1. 2.3. Bot. Mag. t. 209. 
_ Var. a. hispidus ; lower leaves deeply 3-lobed, upper 3-5 parted, 
incised. DC.lc. #.& Z./ ex parte ! 
Var. 8. ternatus ; leaves mostly tripartite. 
mae) Bay hu | hy Var. y. cordifolius; lower leaves roundish-cordate, upper tripartite 
CH, pusillus, BE. & Z. ! 314. non Thunb. 
Var. 6. hastefolius ; leaves hastate, 3-lobed, the middle lobe very 
long. H. hasteefolius, E. Mey ! 
Var. ¢. cordatus ; all the leaves roundish cordate, obtuse, dentate. 
H. uniflorus, E. Mey ! 
Var. @ lanceolatus ; all the leaves ovato-lanceolate, serrate. ZH. 
physodes, E. Mey f 
Has. In waste, d and in ri i lony, 
Caftaris ad Port Natal common, (He. TOD, Sony beeen 
A common sub-tropical weed, with handsome primrose-coloured or buff flowers, 
belt siead atpas” velvetty centre. The species is best known by its bladdery, 
_ 20 H. cannabinus (Linn.); annual, nearly glabrous; stem and petioles 
prickly; leaves on long petioles, palmately 5-7-parted, the segments 
tan eclate, acute, serrulate, the middle nerve with a gland at base ; 
: flowers (large) ile, axillary ; involucel of g-10 subulate, bristly 
eatiets half as long as the calyx lobes, which are deltoid-acuminate, 
_ Dristiy or prickly, and each having a large medial gland ; capsule globose, 
oe » Very hairy, seeds glabrous. DOC. Prod. 1.p.450. W. & A. 
Prod. p. 50. my ». Corom. t. 190, Cav. Diss. t. 52. f. 1. 
nsameulo and Omcomas, and towards Port Natal, Drege/ (Herb. 
ige like that of Hemp, and large white flowers, with a dark 
uch culti vated in India for ite ae Se “ahigeine as a vege- 
e branches, peduncles, 
