206 MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, Hibiscus. 
lets, Flowers axillary. Capsules acute, hairy on the out- 
side. 
H. Surattensis. Lour. Cochin Ch, 512. 
Herba crinalium, Rumph, Amb, iv. t.16. appears to me to 
be this plant. 
Narinam-poulli, Rheed, Mal. vi. p. 75, t. 4. argees better 
with a very distinct species, (viz. aculeata) formerly de- 
scribed by me under the idea of its being Svratiensis, At 
_ that time I had not seen the real Linnzean species, which is 
now before me, otherwise the mistake would not have hap- 
pened. The stipules are the best marks to know them by. 
A native of various parts of India. Flowers during the 
sro and cold seasons in the Botanic garden. 
28, H. aculeatis. Roxb. 
Annual, erect, very prickly. Leaves palmate, ihieaditoted. 
Lobes remotely serrate. Stipules lanceolate. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, one-flowered. Exterior calyx ten-leaved, 
appendaged, . 
I have only observed this in my garden, where it must 
have been brought from some other place amongst other 
seeds, It has proved annual with me. 
Stem erect, very prickly, from-two to five feet high, round, 
flexuose. Leaves remote, alternate, petioled, from entire to 
five-lobed, serrate, a little hairy ; lobes lanceolate, pointed, 
principal nerves prickly on the under side, Petio/es longer” 
than the leaves, round, prickly. Stipules lanceolate, ciliate. 
Peduneles axillary, single, shorter than the petioles, prickly, 
one-flowered. Flowers large, campanulate, yellow, with a 
dark, purple bottom. Calys ; exterior articulated below the 
middle, and there enlarged on the outside with an oval leafy 
appendage below the articulation, horizontal from it, erect 
and ineurved, covered with strong, straight, sharp bristles. | 
29, H. strictus. R. of 
Annual, straight, polished. Leaves wiadindis lobate; lobes 
