Hibiscus,] XXI. MALVACE^. 517 



acute, erect teeth. Petals above 1 ia., and often IJ in. long.— Mount Gouui";bcai- in 

 N. S. Wales. ^ 



* d. Muelleru Involucre of the preceding variety with the small flowers of the followiiig 

 ooe. — Gathered by most collectors, as well as the follovviug variety, 



c. SturiiL Involucre as long as the calyx, dilated, and spreading at the top, with short 

 broad rounded lobes. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long, with rather short lobes. Petals rarely ex- 

 ceeding 1 in., and often much smaller. — The most common N. S. Wales form. 



d. cam2)^jlochla7ni/s, F. Muell. Both involucre and calyx more or less deeply divided into 

 lanceolate acuminate lobes. Calyx otherwise rather longer than in the preceding varieties, 

 —Victoria river and Sturt^s Qraek, F, M Holier ; Dam pier's Archipelago, J. Cnyinivgham. 

 lu the latter specimens the seeds are woolly, but in the Victoria river plant they appear to 

 be glabrous, as in the other varieties. 



€, plaiychlami/s. Very densely clothed with a somewhat rigid, velvety tomentum. In- 

 volucre very spreading, often above 1 in. diameter, with broad lobes. Calyx exceeding i in., 

 «ith large ovate or ovute-lanccolate lobes. — Victoria river, F. Mueller, 



25. H, iiuegelii, EndL in Ilueg, Enum, 10. A tail shrub, more or 

 less scabrous or toraeiitose with scattered stellate hairs, or rarely glabrous, 

 and never hoary. Leaves deeply S- or B-lobed, 1 to 2 or even 3 iu. long, 

 the lobes obovate, oblong, cuneate or rarely lanceolate, more or less piimatifid, 

 3-lobed or coarsely toothed, often undulate, and the lobes or teeth obtuse or 

 rarely rather acute. Flowers large, violet pui^ple (or rarely yellow?), the 

 pedicels rather long, bearing sometimes a small bract, and still more rarely a 

 second flower at the joint. Involucral bractcoles more or less united at the 

 base into a short broad cup, with 7 to 10 linear or subulate teeth or lobes 

 verj^ variable in length, rarely nearly free to the base. Calyx f to nearly 1 in. 

 long, tomeutose or softly villous, deeply divided into lanceolate-acuminate 3- 

 01- 5 -nerved lobes. Petals 2 to 3 in. long, softly tomcntose or villous out- 

 side where exposed in the bud. Styles united almost to the stigmas, which 

 are large and spreading. Capsule ovoid-globose, tomentose or villous, the 

 cells haiiy inside. Seeds glabrous. 



S. Australia. Goose Iskud Bay and Memory Cove, B. Brown; S[ount Arden, 



Mount llemarkable, and Port Lincoln, F.Mueller; Streak}- Bay, Fenua Bay, etc., JFar- 

 burton. 



"W". Australia. From Cape Riche, PreisSy u, 1340, to Swan River, Tracer, Drvmmond^ 

 Prem, n, 1336, 1339, 1341, and others; and Murchison river, Drummond, Oldfield, etc. 



A variable species, of ^vhich the following are the most conspicuous forms in our her- 

 baria :— 



a. avf/ulattis. Glabrous, except a close tomentum on the flowers; branches strongly 

 angular, by prominent lines decurrent from the stipules. Flowers large.— Murchi son river. 



b' glahrescens. Stem and leaves glabrous or slightly tomeutose, the branches terete or 

 with shghtly raised angles. Flowers large, tomcntose, drying of a pade colour.— Swan River. 

 To this form should be referred the original specimen of R, lluegcliu My suspicion that 

 the statement that it had a vellow flower, purple iu the centre, originated iu a mistake, has 

 been fully confirmed by Dr. Feuzl, who has sent me full notes on the varieties exemplified 

 in the Viemia Herbarium. 



e. Wray<e. More or less abundantly sprinkled or clothed with a scabrous tomentum or 

 stellate hairs. Flowers large, of a bluish-purple. Bracts united. Calyx densely tomen- 

 tose-vi]lous,~J/. Wraya, I-iudl. Bot. Reir. 1840, t. 69; TarHium Wrayce, Walp. Rep. i. 

 311; H, Huegelii, Miq. in PI. Preiss. i. t^. 23'J ; IL Vinonianus, ISliq. I. c. 240, but not of 

 Gandicbaud.— S. and AV. Australia. 



d. leptochiamys. Like the last, but more villous, and the bracteoles longer, ^x^t to the 

 base.—Murchisou river. The stigmas appear to be erect and closed, almost as in Fvgosia, 

 ^ut T am not sure that thev are perfect in the very few flower* we have. 



*• grossulariafolius. Like Wraj/a:, but the flowers rather smaller. Leaves often, but not 



