190 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Hibiscus, 
calyx as in the last species, Filaments, they are as long as 
the staminiferous tube itself, and spreading. .4nthers as in 
the former species, Sity/e the length of the staminiferous 
tube, Stiqgmas three-lobed, even with the mouth of the tube, 
three-cleft, and spreading as in the last. 
I have not seen the ripe seed-vessel, but the structure ai 
contents of the germ promise the same parts as that of the 
former species. : 
Note. The chief marks of specific distinction are in the ex- 
terior calyx, filaments, and pistillum. 
Upon the supposition of this forming a new genus, I have 
ventured to give it the above name, in memory of the late 
Colonel Robert Kyd, of Bengal, whose attachment to botany 
and horticulture induced him to‘ retire from the bigh rank - 
he held in the army, to have more leisure to attend to bis 
favourite study, to the advancement of every objett which 
had the good of his fellow-creatures in view, and to the esta- 
blishment of the Honourable East India Company’s Botanic 
garden at Calcutta, where he was particularly attentive to 
the introduction of useful plants, and to their being dispers- 
ed over every part of the world, for the good of maukind in 
general, 
HIBISCUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1139. 
Calyx double; the exterior one many-leaved, Capsule 
five-celled, five-valved. Seeds a few in each cell. 
: SECT. I. Leaves entire, or slightly lobed, or angular. caer 
ii H, populneus, Willd. iii. 809, 
_Arboreous. Leaves broad-cordate, entire, 2 ol se 
terior calyx scarcely any; the interior one almost entire. 
Capsules oblate-spheroidal, and Kae Seeds bic ja 
Teling. Gangaraya. — 
Tam. Poris. 
