48 MALVACEJE. Hinrscus. 
with its leaves usually distinct, and sometimes united together at their base 
or as far as their middle. Petals not auricled on the one side: ovary 5-celled: 
cells with 3 or many ovules. Style 1, 5-cleft at the apex. Stigmas 5. Car- 
pels united into a 5-celled, 5-valved, loculicidal capsule : margin of the 
_ valves not introflexed ; cells usually many-, rarely by abortion 1-seeded. 
§ 1. Trionum ; involucel many-leaved ; calyw becoming inflated, bladdery, 
membranaceous, and strongly nerved ; carpels many-seeded ; seeds glabrous. 
172. (1) H. vesicarius (Cav.:) leaves toothed ; lower ones undivided ; 
upper ones 5-cleft, the lobes oblong obtuse and nearly equal in size—DC. 
prod. 1. p. 453; Spr. syst. 3. p. 106 ; Wight ! cat. n. 201.—H. dissectus, Wall. ? 
L. n. 2696. 
Probably this and all the others of the section are mere variations of H. 
Trionum, which seems to be found all over the world. 
$ 2. Furcaria ; leaves of the involucel distinct, divaricately forked or with a large 
tooth or other appendage; calyx not inflated ; carpels many-seeded ; seeds 
glabrous. 
173. (2) H. Surattensis (Linn.:) stem herbaceous, and as well as the pe- 
tioles and pedicels rough with small recurved prickles: stipules half cordate, 
broad, foliaceous: leaves palmately 3-5-lobed, on long petioles: pedicels 
elongated, shorter than the petioles: leaves of the involucel linear, incurved, 
furnished on their back about the middle with an oblong foliaceous spreading 
appendage.—DC. prod. 1. p. 449 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 102 ; Cav. diss. 3. t. 83. f. 15 
Wall.! L. n. 1893; Wight! cat. n. 209.—H. furcatus, Wall.! L. n. 1896. ¢ 
(not Roxb.)—Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 44; Rumph. Amb. 4. t. 16; Pluk. t. 5. f. 4. 
174. (3) H. furcatus (Roxb.:) stem erect, somewhat woody, softly pubes- 
cent, and as well as the petioles and pedicels rough with numerous s 
recurved gee : stipules oblong or lanceolate: leaves palmately 3-5- 
lobed, under side densely pubescent ; nerves beneath prickly : pedicels rather 
shorter than the petioles: leaves of the involucel about 10, linear, incurved, 
with an oblong foliaceous spreading appendage at their back about the middle. 
—Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 51; DC. prod. 1. p. 449; Spr. syst. 3. p. 102; Wall. 
L. n. 1896. a, b?, d; Wight! cat. n. 959.—H. bifurcatus, Roxb. in E. I. C. 
mus. t. 1582 (not of Willd. nor of Hort. Bengh.)—— Southern provinces. 
Very closely allied to H. Surattensis, differing principally by the shape of 
the stipules. 
* 175. (4) H. radiatus (Cay. :) suffruticose ; stem rough with rigid prickles: 
stipules lanceolate : leaves 5—7-partite: segments lanceolate, acuminated, ser- 
rated: pedicels very short, without prickles: leaves of the involucel rigidly 
MEVS box * oa pes for the one side about the middle—Cav. Diss. 3. 
p. tO Fee HE . 1. p. 449; Roxb. in E. I. C. . tab. ; 
WaLLaASLeh o 1 1 ee 
Roxburgh remarks that it is common in gardens, but that its native country i$ 
uncertain: in Mr Arnott’s herbarium is a specimen from Jamaica.—Wallich’s I 
No. 1894. ¢. is H. diversifolius, Jacq., and the same as Wall. L. n. 1897. : 
$3. Ketmia; leaves of the involucel distinct, simple, entire or rarely splits 
calyx not inflated ; carpels many-seeded ; seeds glabrous, or pubescent, oT 
with a line of dense longish elastic hairs along their back. 
176. (5) H. Lampas (Cav.:) arborescent, without prickles: leaves cordate; 
3-lobed ; lobes spreading acuminated; upper sides sprinkled with minute 
stellate hairs but otherwise glabrous, under tomentose ; middle nerve with à 
glandular pore beneath: peduncles axillary, elongated, about 3-flowered, 
