Hibiscus, MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 201 
20. H. mutabilis. Willd. iii. 817. 
Arboreous. Leaves cordate, somewhat crenate, five-angled, 
downy. Flowers axillary, long-peduncled, Exterior calyx 
eight-leaved, half the length of the inner. Capsules globu- 
lar, very hairy. 
Pudmucharinee, the Sanscrit name. 
Hina paretti, Rheed. Mal. vi. t. 38—42. 
Beng. Thul-pudma, . 
A native of China ; both double and aidiallie are how common 
in gardens all over ode When the flowers first open in the 
morning they are nearly white ; by night, a pretty deep red. 
21. H. cancellatus, R.*— Veen 
Annual, erect, every part vg be and “bristly; hiwee'e cor- 
date, more or less angled, crenate. Stipules subulate. Ra- 
cemes terminate. Exterior calyx of about fifteen long incur- 
ved filiform leaflets ; inner spathiform ; capsule ovate. 
From Nepal Dr. Buchanan sent the seed to the Botanic 
garden, where the plants blossom during the rainy season. 
Root annual, Stem straight, with but few sub-erect, round 
branches, clothed with much long hair intermixed with stiff 
sharp bristles ; height of our plants about three feet. Leaves 
petioled, cordate, generally more or less angular, crenate, 
very hairy; from four to six inches long, and from three to’ 
five broad, Petioles horizontal, nearly as long as the leaves, 
round, and like every other part of the plant, very hairy. 
Stipules subulate, very long and very hairy. Flowers na- 
merous, peduncled, drooping, solitary in the superior axills, 
and on a pretty long straight, terminal raceme, large, cam- 
panulate, of a lively yellow, with the bottom of the bell 
crimson. Bractes like the stipules, Calyx; the exterior 
one as sity were re and composed of from ten to eighteen 
* Hi: eiieullates, Suppl. 311. Cavanilles and Willdenow consi« 
der this a species of Pavonia viz. P. cancellata. See Willd. ed. st. 
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