MALVACEAE. 



muda, is a velvety perennial up to 6 high, with ovate to lanceolate, serrate 

 leaves 4 '-8' long, its pink petals crimson-blotched at the base, 4' 5' long. 



Hibiscus diversifolius Jacq., PRICKLY HIBISCUS, African, seen in the 

 garden at Dimbarton in 1914, is a prickly shrub about 5 high, with variously 

 lobed, long-petioled leaves 3 '-6' broad, and short-pedicelled, large, yellowish or 

 purplish flowers. 



9. PABITI Adans. 



Trees, with broad cordate petioled leaves, large deciduous stipules, and 

 large, terminal or axillary flowers, solitary or few together, the petals yellow 

 or changing to red. Involucre 8-10-toothed. Calyx 5-toothed. Style pubescent 

 above, 5-cleft, the stigmas broad. Capsule loculicidaliy 5-celled, many-seeded, 

 the cells vertically partitioned by a dissepiment, which splits at dehiscence into 

 two membranes. [Name said to be Malabaric.] A few species of tropical 

 regions, the following typical. 



1. Pariti tiliaceum (L.) Juss. 

 MAHOE. (Fig. 265.) A tree, some- 

 times 50 high, the young foliage vel- 

 vety-tomentose. Leaves long-petioled, 

 the blades 3'-8' broad, nearly orbicu- 

 lar, cordate at base, abruptly acumi- 

 nate at apex, shallowly dentate or sub- 

 entire, the venation prominent beneath ; 

 involucre 10-cleft, about J' long; petals 

 yellow, obovate, 2'-2J' long; calyx about 

 10" long; capsule ovoid, tomentose, 

 7"-9" long; seeds glabrous or minutely 

 downy. [Hibiscus tiliaceus L.] 



Border of a mangrove swamp near the 

 west end of the causeway a large tree 

 observed in 1913 ; apparently not planted. 

 Lefroy records that a tree was grown 

 from seed washed ashore about 1825, 

 and that prior to 1879 there was a large 

 tree at Somerville, Smith's Parish. Oc- 

 casionally planted for shade. Flowers 

 in summer and autumn. Naturalized. 

 Erroneously called Tulip-tree in Bermuda. 



10. THESPESIA Soland. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire or merely angulately lobed, 

 commonly large, usually cordate, petioled. Flowers perfect, showy. Involucel 

 of 3-5 narrow deciduous bractlets. Calyx truncate or nearly so. Petals 5. 

 Ovary sessile, 5-celled; styles 5, united or rarely distinct; stigmas decurrent on 

 the styles. Ovules few in each cavity. Capsule firm, woody-leathery, 5-celled, 

 indehiscent. Seeds several in each cavity, glabrous or pubescent. [Greek, 

 marvellous.] About 8 tropical species, the following typical. 



