Hibiscus. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 201 



20. H. mutahilia. Willd. iii. 817. 



Arboreous. Leaves cordate, somewhat crenate, five-augled, 

 downy. Flowers axillary, long-peduncled. Exterior calyx 

 eight leaved, halt' the length of tlie inner. Capsules globu- 

 \ay, very Iiairy. 



P//dMi»clKir/nee, tlie Sanscrit name. 



Ilina paretti. liheed. MaL vi. t. SH — 4->. 



Betuj. Thill pudma. 



A native of China ; both double and single are now common 

 in gardens all over India. When the flowers first open in the 

 morning- they are nearly white ; by night, a pretty deep red. 



21. H. cancellatns. R.* 



Annual, erect, every part hairy and bristly ; leaves cor- 

 date, more or less angled, crenate. Stipules siihii\nie. Ra- 

 cemes terminate. Exterior calijx of about fifteen long- incur- 

 ved filiform leaflets ; i/mer spathifbrm ; capsule ovate. 



From Nepal Dr. Buchanan sent the seed to the Botanic 

 garden, where the plants blossom during- the rainy season. 



Root annual. Stem straight, with but iew sub-erect, round 

 branches, clothed with much long hair intermixed with stifl' 

 sharp hristles ; height of our plants about three feet. Leaves 

 petioled, cordate, generally more or less angidar, crenate, 

 very hairy ; from four to six inches long, and from three to 

 five broad. Petioles horizontal, nearly as long- as the leaves, 

 round, and like every other part of the plant, very hairy. 

 Stipules subulate, very long and very hairy. Flowers nu- 

 merous, peduncled, drooping, solitary in the superior axills, 

 and on a pretty long straight, terminal raceme, large, cam- 

 panulate, of a lively yellow, with the bottom of the bell 

 crimson. Bractes like the stipules. Calyx; the exterior 

 one as it were inflated, and composed of from ten to eighteen 



* H. cucullatus, SuppL 311. Cavanilles and Willdenow consi- 

 der this a species of Pavonia viz. P. cancellala. See Willd, ed. si. 

 583. 



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