192 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, AMibiscus, 
siderable force. Seeds from one to three in each cell, kidney- 
formed, covered with brown farina. 
This species is immediately to be distinguished from po- 
pulneus by the glands in the axills of the nerves of the leaves, 
their waved border and long points, and by the double in- 
tegument of the capsule; the innermost of which requires 
force and a sharp knife to open it ; whereas in populneus it is 
single, and can be easily broken by the pressure of the am 
and finger, 
This tree will answer better for avenues, parks, &c. than 
populneus, because it is much higher to the branches, conse- 
quently gives a free circulation to the air. 
When wounded there discharges the some yarns juice as 
in populneus, 
As both these trees want the most seinsinils ial the 
double calyx of Hibiseus, I should imagine ne would; with 
more te ot form a new genus, 
3. H. tiliaceus. Willd. iii. 810. 
-Arboreous. Leaves round-cordate. Flowers terminal. 
Exterior calyx ten-toothed, Capsules shorter than the calyx, 
five-valved, each divisible, though not spontaneously, ten-— 
celled. Seed reniform. 
Novella, Rumph. Amb. ii. t. 73, is too bad a figure to ue 
quoted; yet 1 doubt not but it was intended for this tree, 
and although our plants are uncommonly luxuriant, I never 
saw any of the leaves with the least tendency to a lateral 
lobe. — | | 
A native of the Moluccas, Flowers in the hot season in the 
Botanic garden, though more or less the whole year round. 
4, H. tortuosus. R, 
Arboreous, with a crooked trunk, and variously bent, dif. 
fuse branches. Leaves round-cordate, crenulate, hoary u8-- 
derneath. Stipules and bractes ovate-laneeolate. Flowers 
