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Has.—Near the Zwartkop and Sondag Rivers, Evklon & Zeyher ! Graaf Revnet and 
Somerset, Mrs. J. W. Barber! Macallisberg, Burke! near Grahamstown, T. William- 
son! (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Drscr.—foot thick and woody. Stems several, 3-6-12 inches long, 
spreading on the ground, either glabrous, or rough with a few scattered 
bristles. Leaves on petioles + to 3 inch or inch in length, extremely 
variable in shape on the same plant, the lowest leaves being usually 
broader and less divided, the upper narrower, and often deeply cut. The 
unlobed leaves are either ovate, elliptical, oblong, or linear, always 
cuneate at base, and sharply and coarsely serrate for two-thirds of their 
length. The dobed leaves vary much in breadth and in the proportion 
between the lobes; the medial lobe is always longest; the lateral are 
sometimes very short or obsolete. The venation is strongly marked, 
nerves and veins very prominent on the lower surface. Sometimes 
both surfaces of the leaf are glabrous ; sometimes one or both is sprinkled 
with stellate hairs, and these are sometimes associated with simple 
bristles. St/pules subulate, somewhat rigid. Peduncles 2-3 inches long, 
jointed under the flower, glabrous or hispid. Involucre 10-leaved, not 
half as long as the lanceolate calyx segments. Corolla 2-3 inches in 
diameter, bright crimson or purplish, rarely varying to orange and yel- 
low. Capsule oblong, glabrous; the seeds densely covered with long 
woolly hairs. 
A very handsome field-flower, native of several parts of the Eastern 
districts, opening its brilliant blossoms throughout the summer. I have 
not seen any authentic specimen of Thunberg’s plant, but the description 
in Fl. Cap. agrees better with this than with any other known to me. 
H. gossypinus is a very different plant. The specimens with yellow 
flowers are from Macallisberg, where also the red-flowered variety occurs. 
Fig. 1, Hibiscus pusillus ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a capsule, surrounded by the per- 
sistent calyx ; 3, a seed; both enlarged. 
LXXIV. COMBRETUM HOLOSERICEUM, Sond. ( Combretacee.) 
C. holosericeum: arborescens, inerme, ramulis teretibus foliis spi- 
cisque holosericeis, foliis oppositis brevissime petiolatis late ovatis sub- 
cordatis acutis integerrimis utrinque helvolo-velutinis, spicis axillaribus 
solitariis foliis brevioribus, floribus octandris, calyce cyathiformi, peta- 
lis obtuse emarginatis lanato-ciliatis, fructibus subsessilibus ellipticis 4- 
alatis, alis semiorbiculatis puberulis nitentibus corpore lanceolato lepi- 
doto vix latioribus. Sond. / in Linn., vol. xxiii., p. 44. 
Has.—Macallisberg, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. T. C. D., comm, cl. Hook.) 
Drscr.—A small tree, with glabrate branches and opposite, densely 
velvetty twigs. Leaves on very short petioles, 25-35 inches long, 2-24 
inches broad, roundish ovate or elliptical, subcordate at base, with a 
short, acute point, densely and softly velvetty on both sides, with fawn- 
coloured or yellowish-brown hairs, the margin minutely recurved, the 
lower surface densely netted with prominent veinlets between the paral- 
