196 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, Hibiscus, 
minute, subulate. Peduncles axillary, diverging, longer than 
the leaves. Petals totally reflexed. Anthers verticelled, C' 
sules round. Seeds woolly. 
Peling. Salla-Burta, 
A native of Coromandel. Flowers during the rainy sea- 
son. 
I am strongly inclined to think H. hirtus and micranthus, 
are nothing more than accidental varieties of this plant; soil 
and situation make it vary exceedingly. 
11. H. tubulosus, Willd. iii, 828. : 
Annual, very hairy. Leaves cordate, serrate, the lower 
ones five-angled, hairy. Flowers short-peduncled, axillary, 
erect. Capsules ovate. Stipules often triple. : 
A large annual, a native of the Circar mountains, Flow- 
ers during the rainy and cold seasons. 
Stem erect, ramous, round, from two to three feet high, 
clothed with many, stiff, straight, furcate hairs, Leaves 
petioled, cordate; the large or inferior ones are often five- 
angled, all are somewhat pointed, grossly dentate-serrate, 
downy and glutinous on both sides; from two to five inches © 
each way. Petioles nearly as long as the leaves, round, and 
armed with hairs like the stem and branches. Stipules 
single, double, or triple, filiform, hairy, falling. | Peduneles 
axillary, solitary, short, erect, rigid, one-flowered. Eaterior 
calyx from seven to ten-leaved, erect, spatulate. Filaments 
few. Capsule oval, paaagls hid by the inner yen ead Seeds 
numerous, brown, downy. | 
bisa ih 
2. H. praviens, R, . 
Perennial, hairy. Leaves cordate, acute, from siectie to 
five-angled, serrate. Flowers short-peduncled, axillary, and 
in terminal racemes. Capsules pointed, hairy. It is a very 
large, seemingly perennial species, a native of the mouxtain- 
ous parts of the country. Flowers during the cold season. 
_ Stem erect, short, as thick as the wrist, woody, Branches 
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