B 
50 MALVACEX. Hiniscvs. . 
longitudinally striated, longer than the 5-cleft calyx: sepals 3-nerved, margin 
thin: corolla tubular below: seeds pubescent.—Heyne ! in Wall. L. n. 2698 5 
Wight! cat. n. 222.—W. septemnervosus, Wight! in Wall. L. n. 2693.—H. 
Borbonicus, Wight! in Wall. L. n. 2694 (not Link.?) Mysore. Madura. 
Gingie hills. 
As we have not at present access to the figure given by Link and Otto, we 
- dare not refer this plant to Willdenow's H. acerifolius, which is said to have 
a setaceous 6-7-leaved involucel; but the character presents no other differ- 
ence. 
181. (10) H. panduriformis (Burm.:) stem herbaceous, without prickles, 
pubescent and covéred with rigid spreading divided hairs: leaves cordate, 
unequally toothed, upper side hispidly tomentose, under with a soft whitish 
dense tomentum ; lower ones roundish and slightly 5-lobed, upper ones 
usually acuminated: pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, very short: leaves of the 
involucel 8, linear and slightly spathulate, erect with the apex patulous or 
recurved, shorter than the 5-cleft calyx: corolla tubular: capsule ovoid, 
pointed, very hairy— Burm. Ind. p. 151. t. 47. f. 2 (bad); DC. prod. 1, 
p. 455 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 105; Wight! cat. n. 213.—H. tubulosus, Cav. diss. 3. 
p. 161. t. 63. f. 2; DC. prod. 1. p. 447; Spr. syst. 3. p. 101; Roxb. hort. 
Bengh. p. 51.—H. pilosus, Rozb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 672.—H. setosus, 
Wall.! L. n. 1902. e-g (not Roxb.)— H. velutinus, DC.? prod. 1. p. 4525 — ; 
Spr.? syst. 3. p. 104.—— Southern provinces. 
The seeds are usually pubescent, but a specimen before us has them 
brous, although otherwise quite the same. The H. setosus of Roxb. in E. 
. C. mus. tab. 1271, and probably Wall. L. 1902. a, b, has the hairs on the 
stem erect and elose pressed, leaves large cordate and entire, the leaves of 
the involucel lanceolate, and united to their middle as in Paritium tiliaceum, 
to which genus it perhaps belongs ; and the seed with long fulvous hair: in-- 
deed it seems to be in no respect distinct from H. macrophyllus, Roxb. and 
Wall. pl. Asiat. rar. t. 51. 
182. (11) H. eannabinus (Linn.:) stem herbaceous, glabrous, prickly: — 
leaves palmately 5-partite, peu segments narrow lanceolate, acuminated, —— 
serrated ; middle nerve with a gland beneath : flowers almost sessile, axillary: 
leaves of the involucel about 9, subulate, prickly with rigid bristles, shorter 
than the undivided portion of the calyx: calyx divided beyond the middle ; 
segments lanceolate-subulate, slightly prickly, 1-nerved, with a large gland 
about the middle of each nerve: corolla spreading: fruit nearly globose, acu- 
minated, very hairy: seeds glabrous.— DC. prod. 1. p. 450; Spr. syst. 3. 
p.103; Wall.! L. n. 1898; Wight! cat. n. 204.— Negapatam. 
183. (12) H. vitifolius (Linn.:) stem scarcely with any prickles, herba- 
ceous: leaves roundish cordate, unequally toothed or crenated, with about 
5 acute or obtuse angles or lobes; upper side nearly smooth or tomentose, - 
under more or less softly tomentose: pedicels drooping, scarcely so long 8$ — 
the petioles : leaves of the involucel about 12, subulate, as long as the un k 
vided portion of the calyx: calyx divided to the middle ; segments triangu- 
lar: corolla patent: carpels hairy, compressed at the back at the line of de- 
hiscence into a short wing: seeds slightly tuberculated.— DC. prod. 1. p. 4505 
Spr. syst. 3. p. 103 ; Wall.! L. n. 1899; Wight! cat. n. 210 (leaves very t0- 
mentose on both sides, and lobes acuminated), and 211 (leaves more glabrous - D 
above, and lobes obtuse or somewhat acute).— H. obtusifolius, Willd. ; 
Rottl.! ; DC. prod. l. c; Spr. syst. l. c.—H. truncatus, Roxb. hort. Bengh.’ 
in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1581.—Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 46. From Madras to Ne- 
gapatam. Malabar. 
So endless are the forms of the leaves of this plant that we dare not cha- 
racterise varicties. Roxburgh attempts to distinguish his H. truncatus (the — 
same state with Willdenow s H. obtusifolius), by the position of the joint ef * 
the pedicel: we have, however, always found it about the middle. he 
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