46 MALVACE^. 



beyond them : spines of the pollen grains short. Styles 

 many, purple, slightly thickened at the ends. Ovary of 

 many carpels, each containing two seeds, and divided 

 by a horizontal partition between them; hilum of the 

 upper seed below its micropyle, of the lower above it. 

 Fruit Ys inch across, black, very hairy, breaking into its 

 constituent carpels (about twenty) : these with two hair- 

 tipped points at the outermost corner and a deep 

 rounded bay in the middle of the inner edge where they 

 are attached to the centre, and opening by a slit at 

 the top. Seeds glabrous, t. 35. 



Ootacamund, covering the bank of the stream between the 

 bazaar and the Gymkhana ground. Not found on Pulneys. 



Not as far as I know, previously recorded from India. 



HIBISCUS. F.B.I. 26 XII. 



Fruit is a capsule of five cells, which open loculicidally 

 (i.e., down their backs, the cells not separating from one 

 another) ; and below the calyx a whorl of three or more 

 bracteoles (these in our species might be mistaken for 

 sepals)— Herbs or woody plants, their young parts 

 covered usually with stellate or with simple hairs. 

 Staminal column continuing in five-pointed teeth above 

 the insertion of the topmost filaments. Ovary of five 

 cells, each with three, or usually more, ovules. Style 

 divided above into five branches with round velvetty 

 stigmas. Seeds kidney-shaped. 



Species about 150 nearly all in the tropics. In Europe only 

 two and in England none. 



HiBiscos was the Greek Ha7?ie for the Marsh MaJ low, uozv known as 

 Althaea officinale, a near ally of the Hollyhock ; and this name is said to 

 have been derived frofn iBis the Egyptian goddess. 



Hibiscus angulosus Masters, Wight Herh. No. 202 ! ; 

 F.B.L i 341, XII 27 ; the Hill Mallow. A tall coarse 

 herb, clothed in all the younger parts with long straight 

 hairs which hide the short stellate ones with which the 



