214 MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, Pavonia, 
on young plants, to simple on the old ; all are linear-lanceo- 
Jate, and serrate. Flowers axillary, solitary, Exterior calyx 
of about ten subulate, permanent leaflets; the inner one five- 
cleft. Capsules oval, hairy. 
A native of New South Wales. Flowers during the hot 
season in the Botanic garden, : 
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PAVONIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1140. 
Calyx double; the exterior one many-leaved. Stigmas 
ten. Capsules five, two-valved, one-seeded. 
1. P. Zeylanica, Willd, iii. 838. 
Erect, ramous, clothed with clammy pubescence. Leaves 
deeply three-lobed ; /obes lanceolate, and notched. Stipules 
subulate. Peduucles axillary. Exterior calyx of from eight 
to twelve subulate, hairy leaflets. Stamina fifteen. 
Hibiscus Zeylanicus. Linn. Flor. Zeyl. 226. Burm. Flor. 
Ind, 153. t. 48. f. 3. , 
Alcea pentacoccos. Pluk, Alm. 13, t, 125. f. 3. good. 
A native of Coromandel. Flowers during the rainy and 
cool seasons. " 
2. P. odorata, Willd. iii, 837. : 
Erect, ramous, covered with clammy pubescence. Leaves 
round-cordate, angle-lobed, dentate, Peduncles axillary. 
Exterior calyx from ten to twelve-leaved, Stamina fifteen. 
Teling. Chittle-bunda. 
A native of Coromandel. In the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta, it is in flower all the year. 
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