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Hibiscus.'] XXL malvace.^. .211 



minal column short, bearing round the summit about 20 filaments much 

 .longer than inmost species. Style-branches long, with L^rge capitate stigmas. 

 Capsule nearly glolmlar, glabrous, 4 to 6 lines diameter. Seeds 4 to' 6 in 

 each cell, tomcntose-villous. 



Queensland. Mooni river, Mitchell; Peak Downs, F. Mueller; Comet river, Leich- 

 hardt. 



N. S. 'V^ales. Macquarie river, Mitchell; on the Mnrrav, F. Mueller; Darling 

 river, Ballachy and Goodicin ; Goyiuga mountains, Victorian Expedition, 



6. H, Drummondii, Tarcz. in Bull Mosc. 1838, i. 195. A slender 

 branching shrub or undershrub, scabrous or hispid with short rigid stellate 

 hau's. Leaves mostly divided into 3, rarely 5, cuneate, oblong-liuear or 

 tarely obovate segmeutSj coarsely toothed or lobed, and usually hispid mider- 

 iieath,. rarely much exceeding 1 in., the lower leaves smaller, broader, and 

 niore entire. Flowers few in the upper axils, rather large, purple with a dark 

 centre. Bracteoles 8 to 10, linear, hispid, often as long as the calyx. Calyx 



to 1 ill. long, very hirsute, deeply divided into lanceolate, acuminate, 3- 

 nerved lobes, the lateral nerves not marginal. Capsule ovoid, acute, hispid. 

 Seeds numerous, ciliate or covered with long woolly hairs wheu (piitc ripe. — 

 H. Elliott a, F. Muell. Fi -' ^^^ 



^.Australia, Brummonu,, n, ^^ , uv,i,>.v^.u x.-^v,.^ ^..v. .—.--.--.. .-, - — -.,.,, 



5M Coll. n. 101 ; Murcliison and Greenough rivers, Walcott and Oldjield. 



7. H. microchlfienus, F. MnelL Fragm, ii. 116 (under //. solanifo- 

 iini). Apparently shrubby, densely clothed with a scabrous, rigid-velvety, or 

 softer and almost floccose stellate tomentum. Leaves on rather short petioles, 

 from ovate io obloag-lauccolate, 1 io \\ in. long, obtuse, slightly toothed, 

 thickly and rigidly toinentosc. Flowers apparently pink or purple, on pedi- 

 cels rather longer than the [)etioles. Bracteoles 7 to 9, sometimes very mi- 

 nute, sometimes half as long as the calyx. Calyx \ in. or rather more, 

 densely scabrous-tomentose, deeply divided into lanceolate 1-nerved lobes. 

 Petals 1 to 1^ in. long, more or less stellate-tomentose outside where ex- 

 posed in the bud. Capsule globular, glabrous or slightly hairy. Seeds more 

 or less bordered or covered with long woolly hairs. — H. bracJiychlceuus, F. 

 MuelL Fragm. iii. 5. 



N. Australia, Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller; :\Iaitland river, Nichol Bay, Wal- 

 cott; Fortesciie river, Jf. Brown. 



8. H. PiuonianTis, Gaudicli. in Fref/c. Voy. But 476, 1. 100. Shrubby, 

 clothed with a close, short, soft, or scarcely scabrous tomentum. Leaves on 

 I'ather long petioles, mostly nearly orbicular, \ to above 1 in. long and broad, 

 shortly and broadly 3-lobed, crenately toothed, undulate and often crisped on 

 the margin, strongly reticulate underneath, the lower ones almost entire. 

 1^ lowers rather large, on short pedicels in the upper axils. Bracteoles 5 to 10, 

 linear, short. Calyx 6 to 8 lines long, tomentose, deeply divided into lanceo- 

 late 3- or 5-nerved lobes. Petals 1^ to near 2 in. long* softly tomentose out- 

 side where exposed in the bud. Style-branches fdiform, with brge, often pe- 

 ^icillate stigmas, connlvcut at first, then spreading, and often closing agnm 

 ^hcu withering, so as to give the style a simple chavate appearance. Capsule 

 tomentose outside, glabrous inside. * Seeds covered with long woolly hairs. 



solanifolius 



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