200?) 



* HIBISCUS lilacinus. 

 Lilac Hibiscus. 



MONADELPHIA VOLYANDRIA. 



Nut. ord. Malvaces. 



HIBISCUS. Supra, vol. 1 . fol. 29. 



§ XI. Lagunaria. Involucellum subnullum, nempe reductum ad marginem 

 prominentera subintegrum dentatumve, aut 1-phylliim deciduum. DC. 

 prodr. 1. 454. 



11. lilacinus ; glaber, foliis integris tripartitisque filiformibus vel trifidis parcn- 

 chymatosis : laciniis lineari-lanceolatis acuniinatis in inferioribus pinnatifidis 

 grossfe dentatis, involucello obsoleto aut 6-partito laciniis subulatis, ealycis 

 laciniis acuniinatis tricostatis tubo duplo longioribus, corolla infundibulari 

 calyee duplo loiigiore, stiginate clavato indiviso. 



Caulis orgyalii, glaher, teres. Folia in plantd spontanedfiliformia, in 

 cultd dilatata. Involucelli denies in spuntayied subulati culld obsoleti. 



A beautiful new Hibiscus, obtained from seeds sent home 

 from Swan River by Sir James Stirling, and raised with his 

 usual skill and success by Mr. Robert Mangles, to which 

 gentleman I am indebted for a wild specimen from Swan 

 River. The latter is so little like the garden plant that, 

 under other circumstances, I should have hesitated to con- 

 sider them the same, for the leaves are filiform instead of 

 being flat and broad as in the figure, while the involucellum, 

 which can hardly be said to exist at all in the garden plant, 

 consists of six distinct subulate teeth in the spontaneous 

 specimen. 



In some respects this approaches the H. hakecpfolius of 



* See Mo 1463. 



