204 MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, Hibiscus. 
tive of the borders of cultivated land ; ; appearing and flower- 
ing in the wet and cold seasons. 
Root ramous, annual, Stem erect, a little flexuose, round, 
downy, from two to four feet high. Branches few, near the 
ground ascending, stem-like, Leaves alternate, petioled, the 
lower ones, both on the stem and branches, cordate ; the up- 
per ones generally three-lobed, in luxuriant plants the lobes 
are separated to the base, and sometimes the lateral Jobes are 
two-cleft; again those toward the summit of the plant are 
simply linear, the whole are acute, serrate and downy, with 
sometimes a few hairs; size very various. Petioles from one 
to two inches long, round, hairy, Stipules linear-lanceolate, 
in very luxuriant plants they are sometimes double or two- 
cleft. Peduncles axillary, single, erect, the length of the pe- 
tioles, round, articulated above the middle, a little hairy, 
oue-flowered. Flowers white, about the size of a shilling, 
open all day. Calyx minute, from six to nine-parted ; the in- 
terior one tive-cleft. Corol; petals obliquely-obcordate, Fi- 
lamenis numerous, short, the tube bending to one side, so as 
to make the stigmas below the anthers, Siy/e five-cleft. Stig- 
mas covered with hair, or globular leaflets. Capsule five- 
celled, five-valved, not in any respect wreathed, but just as 
in the genus. Seeds many, two rows in each cell, 
26. H. furcatus,. R....1, 
_Shrubby, very, ramous, xc per sharp thorny bristles ) 
arising from coloured, glandular tuberculi. Leaves from en- 
tire to three-parted, grossly serrate, and hairy, Stipules fal- _ 
cate, lanceolate. Peduncles solitary, axillary, one-flowered; 
exterior calyx of ten forked leaflets. Capsule hairy, ovate, 
acute. 
Discovered by the Rev, Dr. Carey, ioslasteaien in the in- 
terior parts of Bengal. The seed sent by him to the Botanic 
garden in one year produced plants that were six or sian 
feet high, and blossomed during the rainy season, 
Stems erect, somewhat ligneous, Branches numerous, 
