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extus fulvido-tomentosus, intus superne parcius stellari-pilosus, 
inferne glaber, lobis supra corollam conniventibus. Petala lutea, 
obeordata, vix 3" longa, prster basin parce ciliatam glabra. 
Filamenta plurima, circiter 1" longa, columnam brevem glabram 
terminantia. Styli basi tenus liberi, lutei, capillares, glabri, circa 
3" longi. Stigmata terminalia, depressa. Calyx fructifer valde 
inflatus, si expanditur 13" diametro tenens, flavescens, pellucens, 
plieis longis quasi pentapterus, extus stellis pilorum parce obsitus, 
intus glaber. Carpidia in fructum discoideo-depressum j" dia- 
metro metientem cohzrentia, separabilia, dorso rotundata, lateribus 
plana, altitudine 1" paulo excedentia, rostro introverso addito fere 
2" lata. Semen locum explens, leve. Albumen parcissimum. 
Cotyledones foliacez, fere reniformes, plicatz. ^ Radicula conico- 
subulata, 2" longa. 
Speeies S. physaloidi (Pres| Reliq. Hznk. ii. 105), quantum e 
diagnosi cognosco, propinqua, inter species Australi» S. ealyx- 
hymeniz approximanda. 
Sida eryphiopetala. 
(Sect. Eusida.) 
Fruticosa, undique stellari-tomentosa, folis ovato- v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis erenato-serratis, stipulis setaceis, pedunculis elongatis 
axillaribus solitariis rarius geminis gracilibus tomentosis suprà 
medium articulatis, calycis laciniis longe setaceo-attenuatis corol- 
lam luteolam fructumque superantibus, columna pilosula, fructu 
depresso pyramidato-globoso e carpidiis 5 trigonis acutis mono- 
spermis dorso paulo tuberculatis constante. 
In przerupto Brinkley's Bluff montium Macdonnell Ranges. J. 
Maed. Stuart. 
Frutex incertz altitudinis. Folia 11-2" longa, petiolo aliquoties 
breviore predita. Stipule diu persistentes, 2—3" longzm.  Pedun- 
euli 1-2" longi. Calyces pzne 3" longi, profunde 5-lobi. Corolla 
in statu sicco pallide flava, praster basin glabra, vix 3" excedens ; 
petala oblique eordato-ovata.  Anthers in apicem column: con- 
gesta, haud valde numerese.  Carpidis 131" longa, tarde aperta. 
8. calyxhymenis» juxtaponenda. 
Hibiscus Normani. 
(Sect. Ketmia.) 
Fruticulosus, caulibus tomentosis, foliis ovatis acutis repando- 
denticulatis v. prne integerrimis utrinque parce stellari-pilosis, 
stipulis brevibus lineari-setaceis diu persistentibus, pedunculis 
axillaribus solitariis unifloris apice artieulatis calyce conspicue 
longioribus, znvolueri 5-secti segmentis rhombeis calycem perpa- 
rum superantibus tenuiter quinquenerviis, calycis ultra medium 
