Hibiseus, MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, 203 
and are very ornamental; the seéd ripens early in the hot 
season, Z 
24. H. hirtus, Buch. 
Annual, erect, very hairy, Leaves from cordate-lobate to 
hastate-palmate, and finally simple and linear, Racemes 
terminal, Exterior calyx ten-leaved ; the inner one spathi- 
form, Capsule ovate, hairy. 
Alcea moschata villosissima, Pluk. Alm. t. 127. f. 1. 
A native of Mysore, from thence the seeds were sent by Dr, 
Buchanan to the Botanic garden where it blossoms about the 
close of the rains. ~ 
Root annual, ramous. Stem erect, with several spreading 
branches near the ground, all are round and very hairy, height ° 
of the whole plant about two feet. Leaves alternate, petiol- 
ed; shape very various; the lower ones being from simple to 
from five to seven-lobed, about the middle of the plant has- 
tate, or deeply three-lobed, while those near the top amongst 
the flowers are small, linear, and nearly entire ; all but those 
among the flowers deeply serrate, and very hairy. Petioles” 
nearly as long as the leaves, Stipules subulate, incurved, — 
and like the rest of the plant hairy. Racemes terminal, soli- 
tary. Flowers large, yellow, with a red bottom. Bractes’ 
like stipules, Culyax ; the exterior one about ten-leaved, per- 
manent ; the inner one spathiform, dropping with the corol. 
Capsule ovate, five-angled, very hairy. Seeds numerous. 
This species comes nearer H, 4belmoschus, particularly in 
the pubescence, flower and pericarp, than any other Lknow, | 
25, H. pumilus. Roxb. 
Annual, erect, downy. Leaves serrate; the inferior ones 
cordate, the middle ones three-lobed ; the superior ones lan- 
ceolate. Exterior calyx minute. Stigmas hairy, Capsule 
shorter than the inner calyx. 
Solandra lobata,. Nu. Syst. Veget. 623. 
This is rather a rare plant on the Coromandel coast, a na- 
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