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HIBISCUS* Lindlri. 

 Ml'. Lindley's Hibiscus. 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 



Kat. ord. Malvacex Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 33.) 



HiBfSCUS.—Suprd, vol. \0. fol. 860. 



H. Lindlei ; caule sufFruticoso, pctiolis pcdunculisque scabris ct aculcatis, 

 foliis subrotundo-cordalis palmatini 3-7-partitis : lobis lanceolatis acu- 

 minatis serratis, Horibus axillaribus solitariis, invohicelli tbliolis linearibus 

 hispidis apicc bilobis, corolla patentissima, capsula adpresse pilosa sericeii 

 demiini glabra. — Wallich plant. As. rar. \.p. 4. tab. 4. 



This beautiful plant is a native of the Burma empire, 

 near Segain, and of a mountain in Ava called Taong Dong, 

 where it flowers and bears fruit in November. It has been 

 also found in Tavoy, on the coast of Tenasserim, according 

 to Dr. Wallich, by whom plants were brought alive to 

 England in 1828, and presented by the Honourable Court 

 of Directors to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden 

 our drawing was taken in December last. It proves to be 

 a hardy stove plant, growing with much vigour, but not 

 flowering readily unless the young shoots are struck as 

 cuttings as soon as the blossoms appear, in which case it 

 flowers freely, and becomes an extremely ornamental plant, 

 esjieciallv in the winter months, during the whole of which 

 it flowers in abundance. It is too tender to flower out of 

 doors even in the summer. 



* 'l/3i'<rx«« was the ancient Greek name of some Malvaceous plant. Nothing 

 appear?, to be known of its derivation. The fjraciUs hibiscus of Virtril was 

 piobably some other plant. 



