Hibiacm.'] xxi. malvace.k.. . 213 



concealing the venation, wliicli, as in H. radiatuH, consists of a midrib and 

 the thickened margins of each lobe. Petals nearly 3 in. long. Capsule 

 ovoid-globular, acute, densely setose or silky-hairy. Seeds glabrous. — Bot. 

 Reg. t. 29 • DC. Prod. i. 450 ; 11, graudijlorus, Salisb. Par. Lond. t. 23. 



Queensland. Broad Souiia, Slioalwater Bay, R. Brow)i; Percy Isle and Port Curtis, 



M'GiUlvray ; Brisbane river, Fraser, A, Ctmninf/kam^ F, MiieKer, etc.; RockhamptoUj 

 Thozet, 



N, S. "^Vales. Macleay and Hastings river, Beckler ; Ilawkesburj river, Tatenon ; 

 Kiama. Harvey ; Port Stephens, Lady Parry ; Port Macquarie, Thozet, 



_ The northern specimens belong mostly to a broadcr-leavcJ form, distinguished by A. Cun- 

 ningham under the name of //. Margerm, 



12. H. diversifolius, Jaai. ; DC, Prod, I 449. A tall, rigid herb or 

 undershi-ub, sprinkled vvitii a rigid pubescence, the bi'anehes and petioles 

 more or less beset with small conical prickles. Leaves broadly cordate or 

 nearly orbicular, irregularly toothed, an^rular or more or less 5-lobed. Flowers 

 lu a terminal raceme, on very short pedicels in the axils of small lanceolate or 

 3 -fid floral leaves, often reduced, especially the upper ones, to small linear 

 bracts. Eracteoles linear, and calyx Avith marginate lobes, as in //. ra- 

 diatus, but the lobes are narrower, and usually densely hispid with rigid 

 bristly bail's. Capsule acuminate, very hispid. Seeds 'glabrous, — Bot. Keg. 

 t. 381 ; //. BecUeri, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 117- 



Queensland. Rockhampton, Thozet f 



N. S. "Wales. Hunter's river, i?. Brown; Clarence river, in woods, BecHer ; alon 

 the river, not common, IVilcox, 



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1830. A tall shrub, of great beauty, attaining 12 to 20 ft., densely clothed 

 with a soft velvety tonientum, the branches and petioles armed with small 

 scattered prickles or bristles. Leaves on long petioles, broadly ovate-cordate 

 or palmatcly 3 or 5-lobed, often 6 or 7 in. long, the lobes oblong-acumiimte 

 or lanceolate, often narrowed at the base. Stipules often 2 on each side. 

 Flowers very large, rose-colom-ed, on pedicels about as long as the petioles. 

 Bracteoles 10 to 15 or sometimes many more, linear-subulate, as long as tlie 

 calyx, densely hispid or softly \yllous. Calyx at least 1 in. long, densely to- 

 mentose or hispid, deeply divided into lanceolate lobes, with a dorsal and 

 ^iarginal nerve, as in JL radlatus. Petals 3 in. long or more, glabrous. 

 Capsule silky-hairy. Seeds glabrous.— Bot. Mag. t. 3025 ; Bot. Reg. t. 

 1629 ; Abelmoschns spleudeM, VVidp. Hep. i. 309. 



Queensland- Percy Island, N.E. coast, A. Cunmnylmm ; Rockhampton, Thozet; 

 Ahnrton Bay, F, Mueller. 



«. S. Wales. Clarence and Hastings rivers, Fraser, Beckler, 



11. H. zotiatus, Z MudL Fragm. i, 221. A shrub with a scabrous 

 tomentum, sometimes short and close, sometimes dense and velvety, the rather 

 slender bi'anehes occasionally hirsute or bristly. Leaves from orbieular-cor- 

 flate to ovate, the larger ones attaining 3 or 4 in., nnd shortly and broadly 

 ^"1 5-, or 7-lobed, the upper ones entire or toothed and often narrow. 



