Hibiscus. MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. 191 



Beng. Poresh. 



Bupaiiti. Rhecd. Mai. i. i. 29. 

 Novella liltoroa. Rumph. Amh. ii. /. 74. 

 A native of India, and its Islands, chiefly near the sea, in 

 flower and seed all the year. 



2. H. populneoides. Ii. 



Arboreous. Leaves cordate, long- pointed, waved, smooth, 

 glands in the divisions of the nerves. Capsules with two 

 tough integuments ; seeds from one to three in each cell, 

 mealy. 



Gorda-chanda, the Sanscrit name. 



Hind, and Beng. Poris-pippal. 



Te/ing. Moonee-Gangaraya. 



This species is much like the former, I have found it in a 

 few of the gardens of the natives near Samulcota ; it flowers 

 during the wet and cold seasons. 



Trunk straight, from fifteen to twenty-five feet to the 

 branches, thicker than a man's body. Brunches numerous, 

 forming a large, oblong head. Young shoots covered with 

 bronze-coloured scales. Leaves about the extremities oi" the 

 branches, alternate, petinled, cordate, waved, leathery, en- 

 tire, from five to seven-nerved, long-pointed, as in Ficus re- 

 ligiosa ; both sides, but |)articularly the under one, covered 

 Mith small, round, as^h-coloured scales, with a dark spot in 

 the middle of each ; at the base, in the axill of each of the 

 principal nerves, there is a gland, which is smooth, convex 

 above, and a deep pit below. Petioles as in populneus. 

 Stipules subulate. Peduncles, brdctes, flotvers, calyx, corol, 

 stamens, style, and stigmas as in populneus. Capsule, exter- 

 nal form as in populneus, but large, five-celled ; integument 

 double; the exterior one, which is fragile and composed of 

 five valves, opens from the apex spontaneously when ripe, 

 exposing the inner lamina, which are remarkably strong, 

 tough, reticulated with fibres, and not opening without con-. 



