(74) TEXTAMEX FLOR.E LÜTCHUENSIS. 341 



DiSTEiB. Formosa and China. Commonly cultivated in 

 Japan, China, India, and other warm countries. Also 

 grows in Tane-ga-shiraa, a small island situated between 

 Kyushu and Amami-Oshima {S. Tanakal 25 Sept. 1891, fl., 

 sub " spontanea "). 



H. syriacus, L. Sp. PI. ed. l, p. 695 ; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 

 p. 418 ; Koxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, p. 19Ö ; DC. Prodr. I, p. 448 ; Miq. 

 Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 207 ; Mast, in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind.. I, p. 

 .344 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. T, p. 64 ; Thunb. Fl. 

 Jap. p. 272; Forbes et Herasl. Ind. Fl. Sin. I, p. 88; Henry, 

 Li?t PL Formos. p. 21. 



Insula Utcittxâ : in Idzunzatchi-mura ad oppidum Nafa 



{Yamadal 22 Aug. 1882, sub nom. Siru-bunrinkwa). 



DiSTRTB. Common in Chiiia, both wild and cultivated ; 



also cultivated in Japan and India. 



Thespesia, Soland. ex Corr. 



T. populnea, Soland. ex Correa in *' Ann. Mus. IX, p. 

 200, t. 2.3, f. 1 (1807) ; DC. Prodr. I, p. 456; Wight, Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t. 8 (var. Pvheedii, Pierre) ; Wight et Arn. Prodr. FL 

 Pen. Ind. Or. I, p. 54 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. 2, p. 150 ; Benth. 

 FL Austral. I, p. 221 ; Mast, in Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind. I, p. 

 348; Hillebrand, Fl. Hawaii. Isl. p. 49; Baker f. in Journ. Bot. 

 1897, p. 51 ; Matsumura, in Bot Mag. Tokyo, XI (1897) p. 77. 

 Hibiscus populneus, L. Sp. PL p. 694 ; Roxb. " Hort. 



Beug. p. 51 ", et FL Ind. Ill, p. 190. 



H. populneoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, p. 191. 



