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a capsule-like fruit whose partitions and sides break down, the firmer top and back 

 bearing a spreading cusp. Ovule and seed mostly resupinate-horizontal, the latter 

 partially exposed at maturity. 



1. Anoda pentachlsta A. Gray. Stem 3-7 dm. tall, slender, paniculately 

 branched, puberulent-pubeseent, when copiously so usually cinereous: leaf -blades 

 thickish, those on the lower part of the stem ovate, angulate at the base or somewhat 

 hastate, 1-4 cm. long, subcordate or truncate at the base, those of the upper cauline 

 leaves narrower, hastate-lanceolate or hastate-linear, or sometimes without basal 

 lobes, short-petioled, more pubescent than the stem: calyx stellate-pubescent, 4-5 mm. 

 high during anthesis and with lanceolate lobes, 8-9 mm. wide at maturity, with the 

 lobes very broad and partially involute: petals bright yellow, cuneate, about 5 mm. 

 long: carpels 5, or rarely 6-9, the top of each one 3-3.5 mm. long, finely stellate- 

 pubescent: seed 3 mm. high. 



On plains and prairies, Texas to Arizona and northern Mexico. Spring to fall. 



Page 775, after Hibiscus Syriacus, insert: 



3a. Hibiscus Ros^-Sin6nsis L. A much-branched shrub or small tree, usually 

 sparingly pubescent. Leaf-blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate, mostly 7-15 cm. long, 

 coarsely and unequally toothed, rounded or abruptly narrowed at the base, rather 

 long-petioled : bractlets of the involucels more pubescent within than without: calyx 

 becoming 2.5-3.5 cm. long; lobes lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate: petals rose-red, 

 or rarely of other colors, much larger than those of H. Syria&us: capsules ovoid, 2-2.5 

 cm. long. — Differs from H. Syriacus in the broader bractlets, the narrower calyx- 

 lobes and the red corolla. 



In pine lands and waste grounds, peninsular Florida. Naturalized from the East 

 Indies. Chinese Hibiscus. Shoeblack Plant. 



Page 775, after Hibiscus aculeatus, insert: 



5a. Hibiscus canndbinus L. Perennial, or sometimes annual, sparingly pubes- 

 cent. Stems 3-22 dm. tall, commonly simple: leaf -blades palmately 3-7-parted, the 

 segments linear to elliptic or oblong, unevenly toothed: bractlets of the involucels 

 narrowly linear, flat, bristle-margined or spiny: calyx longer than the bractlets; 

 lobes lanceolate, long-acuminate, rather thin, bristle-margined or spiny: petals white 

 or pink, or sometimes darker colored and purple at the base: capsules 1.5-2 cm. long. 

 — Differs from H. aculeatus in the serrate leaf-segments, the slender-tipped calyx- 

 lobes and the long-beaked capsule. 



In pine lands and hammocks, southern peninsular Florida and the Keys. Naturalized 

 from the Old World Tropics. All year. 



5b. Hibiscus Sabdariffa L. Plants 6-26 dm. tall, glabrous or nearly so : leaf- 

 blades digitately 3-5-parted, the divisions crenate-serrate, the teeth shallow: bractlets 

 linear to linear-lanceolate, very thick, sparingly pubescent, juicy: calyx-lobes lanceo- 

 late, like the bractlets dark red, very thick, copiously fine-pubescent within: petals 

 2-4 cm. long, mostly pink and deep rose-colored at the base: capsules 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 pubescent. — Differs from H. cannabinus in the succulent calyx and bractlets and the 

 short-pointed capsules. 



In pine lands, hammocks and waste places, southern peninsular Florida. Native of the 

 Old World Tropics. Jamaica Sobeel. Roselle. 



Page 781, after Ayenia pusilla, insert: 



2. Ayenia euphrasiaefolia Griseb. Stems prostrate, wiry, finely pubescent: 

 leaf-blades predominantly suborbicular to reniform, 0.5-1 cm. long, sharply few- 

 toothed, short-petioled: flowers nodding: sepals about 3 mm. long, eciliate: capsules 

 nodding, 3-4 mm. in diameter, depressed: seeds bluntly tuberculate. — Differs from 

 A. pusilla in the prostrate stems, the broad leaf-blades and the larger petals. 



In rocky pine lands, southern peninsular Florida. Also in the West Indies. All year. 



Page 795, after Turnera aphrodisiaca, add: 



2. Tumera ulmlfolia L. A shrubby plant 2 m. tall or less, with appressed- 

 pubescent branchlets: leaf -blades ovate, varying to oblong, elliptic or spatulate, 

 mostly 3-9 cm. long, serrate or crenate-serrate, 2-glandular at the base, short- 

 petioled: calyx 14-17 mm. long; lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: 

 petals yellow, 2.5-3 cm. long: capsules globular to ovoid, 8-10 mm. long. — Differs 

 from T. aphrodisiaca in the larger, many-toothed leaf-blades, the larger flowers and 

 the larger capsules. 



In waste places and roadsides, Florida to Louisiana. Naturalized from tropical 

 America. Spring to fall. 



