Hisiscvus. MALVACEZ. : "al 
184. (13) H. mutabilis (Linn. !) arborescent, without prickles: leaves cor- ` 
date, with 5 acute angles or lobes, toothed, and as well as the branches more 
or less tomentose: pedicels elongated, almost the length of the leaf, jointed 
a little below the flower: leaves of the involucel 8-10, linear, twice as short 
as the c : ealyx-segments ovate, acuminated, 3-nerved: corolla spread- 
ing: capsule orbicular, flattened horizontally, hairy outside and inside : seeds 
reniform.—DC. prod. 1. p. 452 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 104; Wall. L. n. 1907 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 220.— Rheed. Mal. 6. t. 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 ; Rumph. amb. 4. t. 9. 
Rheede figures the seeds as hairy; Rumphius describes them only as 
wrinkled; we have not seen them. . 
185. (14) H. eriocarpus (DC.:) stem arborescent, glabrous, without prickles : 
leaves glabrous or very slightly sprinkled with minute divided hairs, cordate, 
3-lobed; lobes usually oblong acuminated, repand-toothed or entire : pedicels 
rather longer than the petioles: leaves of the involucel 8-9, oblong-acumina- 
ted, waved, slightly toothed, often split down the middle, about as long as 
the calyx : ealyx-segments oblong-lanceolate, 1-nerved: corolla very spread- 
ing ; claws with a tuft of hair on each side: capsule orbicular, slightly flat- 
tened, very hairy inside and outside: seeds spherical, glabrous —DC. prod. 1. 
p.452; Spr. Syst. 3. p. 104; Wight! cat. n. 214.—H. collinus, Roxb. hort. 
Bengh. p. 51 ; Wall. L. n. 1908.—H. simplex, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 360; 
G. Don in Mill. Dict. 
$4. Bombicella; leaves of the involucel distinct, simple; calyx not inflated * 
carpels many-seeded ; seeds covered with numerous soft woolly or long silky 
hairs, 
186. (15) H. hirtus (Linn. !) shrubby : leaves on hairy petioles, ovate, acu- 
minated, or (the lower ones) cordate, slightly and acutely 3-lobed, strongly 
serrated, harsh, slightly hairy, with a large gland beneath on the middle 
herve ; serratures in the young leaves terminated by a bristle: pedicels axil- 
ty, covered with stiff patent hairs, longer than the leaf, jointed a little below 
the flowers, slightly thickened above the joint: involucel-leaves 5-7, subu- 
late, hairy, shorter than the calyx: calyx deeply divided ; segments linear- 
lanceolate, hairy : corolla patent.—Poir. in Encycl. Meth. 3. p. 356; Wight ! 
cat. n. 208.—H. Rosa Malabarica, Koen. ; Ker in Bot. reg. t. 337 ; Spr. syst. 
3. p. 105.—H. phæniceus, Willd. (excl. syn. Linn. Supp. and H. hirtus, 
Cav.) ; DC. prod. 1. p. 452 (partly) ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 105 (partly) ; Cav. diss. 
3. t. 67. f. 2. (excl. f); Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 357 ; Wall./ L. n. 1904. 
—Pluk. t. 254. f. 35 Rheed. Mal. 10. t. 1.——Coromandel and Malabar. 
Poiret has well distinguished H. hirtus and H. pheniceus: Cavanilles has 
exactly reversed the two names. The plant in De Candolle’s herbarium, fröm 
the Montpellier garden, of which Mr Arnott possesses a specimen, compared 
with De Candolle’s, is H. pheniceus, Jacq. ; it is almost glabrous, has 9-10 
abrous involucel-leaves as long as the calyx, the pedicel jointed about the 
middle, stamens declinate ; and is one and the same with H. unilateralis, 
V.; a plant only at present known in cultivation, and probably obtained 
m the West Indies. k 
mle (16) H. micranthus (Linn. !) shrubby: leaves ovate or roundish, en- 
tire, acutely serrated, rough with bristly hairs: pedicels axillary, longer than 
the leaf: involucel-leaves 7, setaceous, shorter than the calyx: corolla re- 
flexed.—Cav. diss. 3. t. 66. f.1; DC. prod. 1. p. 453; Spr. syst. 3. p. 106 ; 
nt fat n. 207.—H, rigidus, Linn.!; Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 358 ; 
`| L. n. 1905.——Negapatam, common. ; 
The natives, WM ieri eat the green tender capsules of both 
this and the last. Roxn. uss. m 
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