322 A FLORA OF MANILA 
Cultivated for its edible fruits, fl. most of the year. The culture of 
this species is by no means general in the Philippines, and it seems to 
have been of comparatively recent introduction, at least after 1845. Prob- 
ably a native of India, now cultivated in most tropical and subtropical 
countries. 
9. HIBISCUS Linnaeus 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, glabrous or hairy, sometimes spiny. Leaves 
entire or more or less palmately lobed, stipulate. Bracteoles 5 or mcre, 
rarely wanting, free or connate at the base. Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed. 
Petals 5, connate at the base with the staminal-tube. Staminal-tube trun- 
cate or 5-toothed at the summit. Ovary 5-celled; styles 5, connate beiow. 
Capsule loculicidally 5-valved. (An ancient Greek and Latin name of the 
mallow.) 
Species about 190,-mostly tropical, 10 in the Philippines. 
1. An annual herb, cultivated only...............020....2220..222022220-00---- 1. H. sabdariffa 
1. Shrubs or trees. . . 
2. Leaves 5-angled or 5-lobed; a shrub with large pink flowers, most 
parts densely grayish-stellate-pubescent; cultivated only. 
2. H. mutabiliz 
2. Leaves not angled or lobed. 
3. A tree with yellow flowers, the leaves very prominently cordate at 
the: base.....:.£ 4253902) Dies 1G AOPOs ONE nue test ope 3. H. tiliaceus 
3. Shrubs, cultivated only, the flowers red; leaves not cordate. 
4. Flowers very large, petals entire.......................... 4. H. rosa-sinensis 
4. Flowers medium, pendulous, the petals very deeply fimbriate- 
vided. eee Sage ee rene ee eae ee 5. H. schizopetalus 
*1. H. SABDARIFFA L. Rozelle. 
An erect, branched, glabrous or nearly glabrous, annual herb 1 to 2 m 
high, the stems purplish. Leaves 8 to 12 cm long, polymorphous, entire 
to deeply 3- or 5-lobed, the lobes oblong to oblong-lanceolate, often free 
nearly to the base of the leaf, toothed. Peduncles axillary, solitary, much 
shorter than the petioles. Bracteoles 8 to 12, linear, adnate to the base 
of the calyx, about 1 cm long. Calyx somewhat hirsute, the lobes acu- 
minate, connate below the middle into a fleshy cup. Corolla pink with a 
dark center about 5 cm long. Fruit ovoid, pointed, villous, about 2.5 
em long, enclosed by the fleshy, acid, accrescent calyx. 
Cultivated, Singalon, fl. Nov.Jan. A native of India, now cultivated 
in many tropical and warm countries for its edible fruits; of very recent 
introduction in the Philippines. 
*2. H. MUTABILIS L. Mapola (Tag.). 
An erect, branched shrub 2 to 4 m high, more or less densely covered 
with short, grayish, stellate hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular-ovate, 
5-lobed or 5-angled, crenate, 7 to 20 cm long, acuminate, base cordate. 
Pedicels axillary, solitary, 8 to 14 em long. Bracteoles 10, linear, stellate- 
pubescent, 1.5 to 2.5 em long, nearly or quite free. Calyx 3 to 4 cm long, 
densely stellate-pubescent, the lobes 5, oblong-ovate, acuminate, connate 
below. Corolla 10 to 12 cm in diameter, single or double, opening pale- 
pink, or nearly white, growing darker in color as the day advances. (FI. 
Filip. pl. 175.) 
Cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. most of the year; a native of 
China, now cultivated in most tropical countries. Not spontaneous in the 
Philippines, but of early introduction. 
