212 MONADELPllIA POLYANDttlA. HibisCUS. 



high, found about Calcutta, Dowering time, the wet and 

 cold seasons. 



Stem erect, armed with very stiff short hairs, as weW as the 

 branches. Leaves palmate, hairy, and scabrous; lobes vari- 

 ously lobed, and dentate. Petioles round, longer than the 

 leaves. Stipules lanceolate. Flowers large, yellow, cam- 

 panulate, nodding on long terminal racemes, and from the 

 exterior axills. Calyx, \\\c exterior one four-leaved. Capsule 

 ovate-oblong, five-sided, armed with much very stiff hair. 



30. H. cliincnsis. R. 



Amiual, erect, hairy. Leaves palmate; serjments from 

 three to seven, sub-lanceolar, obtusely serrate, and obtusely 

 acuminate. Flowers axillary and terminal ; the exterior 

 calyx from six to eight-leaved ; the interior one spathiform. 

 Capsules oblong, five angled, hairy. 



From China it has been introduced into the Botanic gar- 

 den where it flowers and ripens its seed during the rainy and 

 cold seasons. It has the habit ofjJbelmoschus ; but the leaves 

 are much more divided, and though the capsules are exceed- 

 ingly like those of that species, yet the seeds are smaller, and 

 void of the musky scent. 



37. H. pentaphyllus. R. 



Annual, erect, nearly smooth. Leaves deeply palmate, 

 sometimes hastate ; divisions linear, near the apices dentate. 

 Stipules ensiform. Exterior calyx five-leaved, permanent ; 

 the inner one spathiform and deciduous. Capsule linear- 

 oblong, hairy. 



Reared in the Botanic garden from seeds received from Mr. 

 Kerr at Canton in China ; here it blossoms during the latter 

 part of the rains. 



Root annual. Trunk straight and almost destitute of 

 branches, pretty smooth, the thickness of a man's finger, and 

 about six feet high. Leaves alternate, petioled, deeply pal- 

 mate ; in old plants young shoots are produced with the leaves 



