5. Hibiscus.] 19. UALYACEM. 



A rare plant in Chota Nagpur. Hundrugagh (Ranchi), Prain. Fl. 

 and Fr same season as last. 



The leaves are often 3-5-lobed half-way down or more, lobes serrate, 

 sometimes very narrow. The leaves are less hairy than in cancell a t us, 

 hairs stiff and also a few stellate bristles beneath. Peduncles clavate 

 above in fruit. Seeds renif orm striate musky. 



Var. 8agittifolillS> Kew. Herb. Nearly glabrous. L. 

 sagittate. j*'L and Fr. small. The fruit is at once distin- 

 guished from that of H. cancellatus by absence of bristles. 



Hazaribagh, C.B. Clarke ! 



3. H. tetraphyllus, Roxb. 



A herb or undershrub branched from i^e base with a thick 

 tap root. Branches with few short hispid or prickly hairs 

 and deeply-lobed leaves with sparse stellate (3-forked) hispid 

 hairs beneath and very few above. Fls. primrose-yellow 

 2£"-3" diam. Bracteoles 4-5, ovate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 

 late. Capsule under 2'\ 



Ravines in the Santal P., on rocks. FL Oct.-Nov. Fr. Dec.-Jany. 

 Perennial. 1 



About 3 ft. high only. L„ radical attain 8 7 diam., lobed more than 

 half-way down, cauline usually about 3-4" diam., deeply or shallowly- 

 lobed ; lobes usually 3 or 4 large and 2 smaller basal ones, ell. or oblong, 

 acute or cuspidate, sometimes again lobed, coarsely toothed. Petiole as 

 long or- f ths as long as the leaf. Stipules linear £-f ". Fls. axillary and in 

 short terminal racemes with the bract-like stipules. Bracteoles persistent 

 f-f ''. Capsule oblong 1£-1J* beaked covered with glandular and pungent 

 hairs, 5-valved. Seeds black striate with rows of minute raised dots, 

 striations with thin brown hairs. 



4. H. pnngens, Roxb. 



A stoat erect scarcely branched herb 6-12 ft. high, 

 with bristly stem, palmately lobed dr angled hairy leaves 

 5-12" diam., and large yellow fls. 4-5" diam. in terminal 

 racemes. Bracteoles broad-lanceolate shorter than the large 

 oblong 2J-2|" long hirsute capsule. 



1 Seeds of this sown by me in the Forest Park, Dehra, germinated 

 May-June 1907 and flowered in the cold weather of the same year. Mr. 

 Subramania Iyer kindly informs me that the plant is still vigorous April 

 1908, and looks as though it will flower again. 



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