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Hibiscus, MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. 19] 
Beng. Poresh. 
Bupariti, Rheed. Mal. i, 1. 29. 
Novella littorea. Rumph, Amb, ii. t. 74. 
A native of India, and its Islands, chiefly near the sea, in 
flower and seed all the year. 
2. H. hi ialnsotde FO 4 
Arboreous. Leaves cordate, long-pointed, waved, smooth, 
glands in the divisions of the nerves. Capsules with two 
tough integuments ; seeds res one to three in _ cell, 
mealy, 
Gorda-chanda, the Sanscrit name. 
Hind. and Beng. Poris-pippal. — 
Teling. Moonee-Gangaraya, it 
This species is much like the former, I have found it in a 
few of the gardens of the natives near Samulcota; it flowers 
during the wet and cold seasons, 
Trunk straight, from fifteen to twenty-five feet to the 
branches, thicker than a man’s body. Branches numerous, 
_ forming a large, oblong head. Young shoots covered with 
bronze-coloured scales. Leaves about the extremities of the 
branches, alternate, petioled, cordate, waved, leathery, en- 
tire, from five to seven-nerved, long-pointed, as in Ficus re-. 
ligiosa ; both sides, but particularly the under one, covered 
with small, round, ash-coloured scales, with a dark spot in 
the middle of each; at the base, in the axill of each of the 
principal nerves, there is a gland, which is smooth, convex 
above, and a deep pit below, Petioles as in populneus, 
Stipules subulate. Peduncles, bractes, flowers, calyx, corol, 
‘stamens, style, and stigmas as in populneus, Capsule, exter-. 
nal form as in populneus, but large, five-celled ; integument 
double; the exterior one, which is fragile and composed of 
five valves, opens from the apex spontaneously when ripe, © 
exposing the inner lamina, which are remarkably strong,” 
tough, reticulated with fibres, and not opening without con-. 
