8B MONADELrmA. rOLYANDKlA. 



outer calix wanting-, leaves mostly trifid, canescently to- 

 mentose. Hab. From the confluence of the river i'iatie 

 and the Missouri, often txtending over the plains in such 

 quantities as to communicate a brilliant redness to thou- 

 sands of acres. This plant has no sort of aflinity to Ciis- 

 tariuy and by the fiuit is a genuine iVlalva. 



A genus of more than 60 species, many of them indi- 

 genous to tropical America, to the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and some to Europe. 



479. MALOPE. X. 



Calix double; exterior 3-lcave(], Capsules l- 

 seeded, aggregated without order. 



Leaves entire orlobed, flowers axillaiy, mostly solitary. 



Species. 1. M. malacoides. v. a. in the herbarium of 

 Stephen Elliot, Esq.,Charleston.— Of this genus there are 

 2 other species in Gi-eece and Btrbary. 



480. HIBISCUS. L. 



CaZix double; exterior many-leaved. Stigmas 

 mostly 5. Capsule 5-ccIlcd, many-seeded. 



Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves entire or palmately lobed; 

 flowers axillary and terminal. 



Species, 1. II. Moscheutos. 2. palustris. 3. grandi- 

 Jlorus. 4. incanus. 5. virginicus. 6. militaris. 7. speciosus. 

 8. Manihot. 9. scaber. 10. esculentns. Ctiltivated. Origi- 

 nally from India. It flowers and ripens seeds in the gar- 

 dens of Pennsylvania. 



A tropical genus containing about 70 .species, chiefly 

 indigenous to America, India and its ishir.ds, a few species 

 extend to the temperature zone, Persia, tlie Cape of Good 

 Hope and North America; tiie fiowers of many are splen- 

 did, and some of the species are abortscent. 



481. HALESIA. i. (Snow-drop Tree.) 



Calix 4 -toothed, superior. Corolla 4-cIert. 

 J\^nt corticate, quadrangular, 2 or 4 of the an- 

 gles alated, 2 to 4 -celled, 2 to 4-sceded. 



Trees with alternate entire leaves; peduncles 1-flow- 

 ercd, latcralh af^f'gregated upon the branches; flowers sul)- 

 campanulate, pendulous. (Germ in IJ. tetraptera^ 4-cclled, 

 cells about 4-seeded; nut by abortion 1 to 4-celled 1 tu 4- 

 seeded.) 



Species. l.H. tetraptera. In Carolina, Georgia and Flo- 

 nda, and on the banks of trench Broad and other river* 



