Lagunaria.'] 



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wanting. I had, on that account, at first considered tlie Australian plant as distinct, but I 

 have since seen the bracts on very young buds of the Norfolk Island one, and observe them 

 to be here and there very deciduous on Australian specimens, and the other characters, 

 although as far as hitherto known constant, may not be sufficient to distinguish the two as 

 more than varieties or races. 



11. FUGOSIA, Juss. 



Bracteoles 3, distinct and narrow, or several united in a 3- to 6-toothed 

 involucre. Calyx 5-lol)ed. Staminal column bearing numerous filaments on 

 the outside, below the truncate or 5 -toothed summit, or rarely quite to the 

 top. Ovaiy 3- to 5-ceUed, with 3 or more ovules in each. Style thickened 

 towards the top, grooved or divided into short, erect lobes, with decurrent 



stigmas. 



Capsule loculicidally 3- to 5-va!ved. 



Seeds obovoid-globular or 



slightly reniform, usually pubescent or woolly. Cotyledons much folded over 

 the radicle. — Shrubs or undershrubs, with the habit of Hibiscus, but usnally 



Calyx 



ttiore glabrous. Leaves entire or lobed, rarely divided. Stipules small or 

 subulate and deciduous. Plowers usually larg'c, yellow or purple, 

 often marked with black dots, but not tJie cotyledons. 



The genus comprises several species from tropical and subtropical regions of America and 

 one from Africa, hut none from Asia, The Australian ones are all endemic. It is very 

 nearly allied on the one hand to HlLiscus, on the other to Gossi/pum^ differing from the 

 former chiefly in the style, from the latter in the hracleoles. 



Involucre minutely toothed, placed a little below the cal^-'X. Glabrous 

 or nearlv so 



1. F. cnneiformu. 



3. -F. hakeafolia. 



3. F. ausfraUs, 



4. F, thespcsloides. 



Ovary-cells 5. 



Leaves entire, cuneate-ohlong or broadly linear ■ . . 



Leaves narrow-linear or almost terete, mostly deeply divided . . 

 •Bracteoles 3, distinct, on the base of i\ift calyx. Ovary-cells usually 3 

 or 4. 



"flliole plant softly tomentose. 



Calyx-lobes linear or lanceolate. Bracteoles linear 



Calyx truncate, minutely 5-toothed. Bracteoles setaceous, minute 

 ■Plant glabrous or s^yy slightly hoary-tomeutose* 

 Calyx deeply divided hiio lanceolate lobes. 



Leaves ovate or lanceolate, narrowed at the base, on very short 



petioles ..." 



Leaves orbicular, 5-nervcd, on petioles of 1 in 6. J^. hfifoUa, 



Calyx truucate, with small linear lobes. Leaves on long ])etiolcs, 



cordate, acuminate 7- i^. foptilifolla. 



(Some varieties of Hibiscus Enegelii appear to have sometimes the stigmatic lobes erect, 

 but the bracteoles and other characters are more those of Hibiscus,) 



6. F. punctata. 



cuueiformis 



Leaves cunente- 



— -- x,^M^««vAUAxa, xjvuin. Shrubby and glabrous, 



oblong or broadly linear, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long, entire, thick and somewhat 

 fleshy. Peduncles short and thick. Invohierc very small, minutely 5 or 6- 

 toothed, placed a little below the calyx. Calyx f to 1 in. long, }]:hibrous or 

 minutely tomeutose, and occasionally glandidar-dotted, deeply divided into 

 lanceohite 1-nerved lobes. 



Petals about 



H 



--- x-u^x>^u .uu^o, x.:.a.o uu.u. aj in. loug, sliglitly tomeutosc. 



Capsule 5-celled, ovoid-oblong, acuminate, slightly tomentose. Seeds^nuuic- 

 ^ous, covered with long Avoolly hairs. — Hibisms cnneifortniB, DC. Prod. i. 

 454 ; Lagnnnria cnneiformis, G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 485. 



^'V, Australia, Scaconst, Dirk Hartog's Islanrl, A. CvnningJmm, Milne; Sharks 

 Bay, S<7Hford. 



