Mibiscus, MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA,. . 
terminal ; exterior calyx eight or nine-cleft. Capsules ten- 
celled, five-valved ; the length of the inner calyx, 
Bala, the Sanscrit name. 
Beng. Bola. 
Pariti. Rheed. Mai. i. t. 30. ' 
Novella repens, Ramph, Amb. ii, p, 222. 
Hibiscus tiliaceus, Lour. Cochin Ch. p. 509. 
A native of most parts of India; found chiefly near the sea, 
and on the banks of large rivers,at no great distance from it; 
growing to be a tree of considerable size, with a stout, crook- | 
ed trunk, or rather, like an immense bush, with numerous, 
very crooked branches, spreading wide, close to the ground, — 
Flowering time in Bengal the hot season. viz. March, April, 
and May ; the seed ripens three or four months afterwards, | 
_ Leaves alternate, petioled, round-cordate, pointed, minute- 
ly crenulate, smooth above, hoary underneath ; about four 
inches each way. Petioles an inch, or an inch and a half 
long, round, downy. Stipules opposite, obliquely-oblong. 
Peduncles terminal, and from the exterior axills, two or 
three-flowered, Pedicels clayate, downy. Flowers large, 
campanulate, drooping, of a bright yellow, with the inside of 
the bottom of the bell, dark crimson, Bractes opposite, ob- 
liquely oblong, very downy, caducous, Calya ; the exterior 
one deeply divided into seven, or ten lanceolate-conic seg- 
ments; the inner one twin, the length of the exterior one ; 
five-cleft, each division has a glandular protuberance. In 
the Molucea plant, which has been blended with this, as one 
species, the exterior calyx is ten-toothed, and about one third 
_or one fourth the length of the inner calyx, both are downy, 
and permanent. Germ ovate, villous; ten-celled, each cell 
containing from five to eight ovula, attached to the inner 
angle of the cells. Stigma five-lobed, clothed with clammy, 
dark crimson filaments, with glandular heads, . Capsule the 
length of the inner calyx, ovate, acute, densely clothed with — 
stellate. pubescence, of the size of a nutmeg, ten-celled, five-_ 
_ valved; that is, they open er into. ae but may 
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