190 MONADELPHTA DODECANDniA. Ilil/lsCUS. 



calyx as in tlie last species, JFilaments, they are as loii^ as 

 the staniiiiiferoiis tube itself, and spreadino". Jlnthers as in 

 the former species. Stifle the leng-lh of the staniiniferous 

 tube. Stigmas three-lobed,even M'ith the mouth of the tube, 

 three-cleft, and spreading- as in the last. 



I have not seen the ripe seed-vessel, but the structure and 

 contents of the germ promise the same parts as that of the 

 former species. 



JSTote. The chief marks of specific distinction are in the ex- 

 terior calyx, filaments, and pistillum. 



Upon the supposition of this forming a new genus, I have 

 ventured to give it the above name, in memory of the late 

 Colonel Robert Kyd, of Bengal, whose attachment to botany 

 and horticulture induced him to retire from the high rank 

 he held in the army, to have more leisure to attend to his 

 favourite study, to the advancement of every object which 

 had the good of his fellow-creatures in view, and to the esta- 

 blishment of the Honourable E;ist India Company's Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, where he was particularly attentive to 

 the introduction of useful plants, and to their being dispers- 

 ed over every part of the world, for the good of mankind in 

 general. 



HIBISCUS. Schreh. gen. N. 1139. 



Calyx double ; the exterior one many-leaved. Capsule 

 five-celled, five-valved. Seech a i^w in each cell. 



SECT. I. Leaves entire, or slightly lobed, or angular. 



1. l\. popuhiem. Willd. iii. (S()9. 



Arboreous. Leaves broad-cordate, entire, smooth. Ex- 

 terior calyx scarcely any ; the interior one almost entire. 

 Capsules oblate-spheroidal, and bristly. Seeds downy. 



Teliny. Gangaraya. 



Tarn. Poris. 



