212 MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, Hibiscus, 
high, found about Calcutta. Flowering time, the wet and 
cold seasons, 
Stem erect, armed with very stiff short hairs, as well as the 
branches, Leaves palmate, hairy, and scabrous; lobes vari- 
ously lobed, and dentate. Petioles round, longer than the 
leaves, Stipules lanceolate. Flowers large, yellow, cam- 
panulate, nodding on long terminal racemes, and from the 
exterior axills, Calyx, the exterior one four-leaved. Capsule 
ovate-oblong, five-sided, armed with much very stiff hair. 
36. H. chinensis. R. 
Annual, erect, hairy. Leaves pilates ; segments trom 
three to seven, sub-lanceolar, obtusely serrate, and obtusely 
acuminate. Flowers axillary and terminal; the exterior 
calyx from six to eight-leaved ; the interior one a 
oo oblong, five-angled, hairy. 
' From China it has been introduced into the Botanic gar- 
den where it flowers and ripens its seed during the rainy and 
cold seasons, It has the habit of 4belmoschus ; but the leaves 
are much more divided, and though the capsules are exceed- 
ingly like those of that species, yet the seeds are smaller, and 
void of the musky scent. : 
37. H. peniaphs silens R. 
Annual, erect, nearly smooth, Leaves deeply sien: 
sometimes hastate ; divisions linear, near the apices dentate. 
Stipules ensiform. Exterior calyx five-leaved, permanent ;— 
the inner one spathiform and deciduous. Capsule linear- 
oblong, hairy. 
Reared in the Botanic garden from seeds eben from Mr. 
Kerr at Canton in China ; here it blossoms during the latter 
part of the rains. 
Root annual. Trunk straight and almost destitute of 
branches, pretty smooth, the thickness of a man’s finger, and 
about six feet high. Leaves alternate, petioled, deeply pal- 
mate; in old plants young shootsare produced withthe leaves — i 
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