Hibiscus. MONADELPIIIA DODECANDRIA. 197 



nunieroii«, ascnuliiio-; yoimff parts covered with very rigid 

 hairs ; the height of the plants raised in my garden, were 

 from six to twelve feet. Leaves alternate, horizontal, petiol- 

 ed, cordate, from three to five-angled, from three to five- 

 nerved, serrate, from three to six inches long, and from two 

 to five bioad. Petioles the length of the leaves. Stipules 

 subulate. Flowers single from the exterior axills, and on 

 long- terminal racemes, short-pedicelled, in the flowering time 

 beautifidly bowing-, very large, yellow, with a dark purple 

 bottom. Bractes to the flowers on the racemes three fold, 

 awled. Calyx, exterior from five to seven-leaved; leaves 

 linear, hairy, permanent. Corol campanulate, &c. as in po- 

 pulneus. Capsule oblong-, erect, sharp-pointed, covered with 

 strong hairs, which stick in the skin, and produce much itch- 

 ing-. Seeds many, kidney-formed. 



13. H. Solandra. VHerit. Stirp. i. t. 49. 



Annual, erect, ramous, clothed with hamose pubescence. 

 Leaves cordate, rarely cordate-lobate, grossly serrate. Sti- 

 pules and bractes clavate. Racemes terminal, elongated. 

 Pedicels very long. Exterior calyx minute, or wanting-. 



Laganaea lobata. Willd. iii. p. 733. 



Triquera acerifolia. Cavan. Diss. i. t. 11. 



A native of Mysore. Flowers during the rainy season in 

 the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 



14. H. Lampas. Willd. iii. 811. 



Sub-arboreous. Leaves from cordate and entire to three- 

 lobed. Stipules subulate. Floicers sub-terminal, forming 

 large, leafy panicles. Exterior calyx of from four to eight 

 small, subulate, caducous leaflets. Capsule ovate. 



A native of the Rajemahl hills and Chittagong. It was 

 also found by Dr. Buchanan in Nepal. Flowering- time the 

 close of the rains ; seed ripens in January. 



Stems in general several from the same root, with several, 

 sub-erect branches, particularly near the top ; yoxaig parts 



