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Paritiwm.| MALVACE (Harv.) 177 
petioles, and nerves of the leaves armed with hooked tubercles ; leaves 
deeply 5-lobed, the upper ones 3-lobed, nearly glabrous, unequally 
toothed ; stipules lanceolate ; peduncles axillary, one-flowered ; invol. of 
many spathulate leaflets, each furnished in front with an inflexed, subulate 
appendix ; calyx lobes deltoid-acuminate, with a densely setose mid-rib. 
DC. Prod. t.p.449. H.hamatus, E. Mey.! 
Has. Port Natal, —— Sod f., Drege! (Herb. Hook.). ie 
: i t we have seen are ir » but unmistakeabl 
able bo lids citicne Tatiana apacier: “Misweek yell ge ss race 
22. §. Surattensis (Linn); annual; the branches, peduncles and 
petioles armed with hooked tubercles ; leaves deeply 5-lobed, with lan- 
ceolate, toothed lobes ; stipules broadly semi-cordate, clasping the stem ; 
peduncles axillary, one-flowered ; invol. of many spathulate leaflets, each 
furnished in front with an inflexed, subulate appendix ; calyx-lobes 
deltoid, acuminate, with a densely setose mid-rib. DC. Prod. 1. p. 449. 
Bot. Mag. t. 1356. HH. hypoglossum, EL. Mey.! 
Has. Port Natal, Drege? Sanderson’ Dr. Grant} (Herb. Hook.). 
Chiefiy distinguished from H. furcatus by the shape and size of the stipules. 
Flowers yellow with a deep red or purple centre. The curious form of involucral 
leaflets which marks these two species may be referred to what is called, ‘* dedupli- 
cation,” and its occurrence in Malvaces, where the stamens (as Dr. Gray has ably — 
shown) are developed in a similar way, is not without significance. 
X. PARITIUM. A. Juss. 
Involucel monophyllous, 10-12 cleft or toothed. Petals and Staminal 
tube as in Hibiscus. Ovary 5-celled, each cell partially divided into two 
by a spurious, parietal dissepiment ; ovwles numerous. Capsule 5-celled, 
: cells imperfectly bilocular. Hndl. Gen. 5283. Hibisci Sp., DC. et — 
Tropical trees or shrubs, with cordate, entire or lobed leaves, glandular on the : 
under surface. Stipules broad, ovate. Flowers yellow, with dark centre. The inner 
bark affords a strong fibre, suitable for many textile ] for cordage and paper. 
Cuba “bast” is the product of one of this genus. The name Paritiwm is an altera- 
tion of Pariti, the native name of these plants in India, fide Rheede, Hort. Mal. 1, 
t. 30. oe 
1. P. tiliaceum (S. Hil. Fl. Braz. 1. p. 198); a tree ; leaves on long © 
petioles, roundish-cordate, with a sudden acumination, quite entire or 
crenulate, 5—7-nerved, glabrous on the upper, velvetty and canescent on 
the lower surface ; stipules ovate, deciduous ; flowers in terminal cymes; 
involucel r1o-toothed. Hibiscus tiliaceus, Linn. DC. Prod. 1. p. 454. 
Cav. Diss. 3.t. 55. Bot. Reg. t.232. Wight, Ic.t. 7. 
. Mouth of the Omsamcaba, Drege! Port Natal, 7. Williamson, 
An umbrageous tree; 20-30 feet igh, with a round head, and leaves not unlike 
those of the lime tree in form, but of a thick, leathery substance, pale and softly 
we panicles, yellow, with a dark, purplish-brown centre. 
velvetty ath. Flowers either from the axils of the terminal leaves, or in cymoi Sep ee 
