104 XXV. ALiLVACE-i:. 



brown. Fl. B. I. v.'.l, p. 334; K. Sebum, in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 

 V. 3, part 6, p. 48, fio;. 20, e, f; Woodr. in Joiirn. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1897) p. 127.— Flowers : Nov.-Jan. 



SiNi) : bills in Siucl, Sfocks, 603 !, Bahcll, 2 1, Vicar// ! ; Moach, near Karachi, very 

 abundant, Cooke I ; Jemadar ka Landa, near Karachi, Stocks ! 



It is a mistake to suppose that this plant grows o« rocks. Together with Gossypium 

 Sfocksii, it is found very plentirully near Karacln', on an extensive plain over which 

 some boulders or outliers are sjmringly scattered. It is also common on some of the 

 Sind hills (Stocks). — Distrib. Arabia, Abyssinia, Nubia. 



11. HIBISCUS, Linu. 



Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees. Flowers axillary or solitary or in a 

 terminal raceme. Leaves various, usually more or less palmately lobed. 

 luvolucral bracts 4-] 2 (rarely 0), free, or connate. Sepals 5, valvate, 

 more or less combined into a 5-lobed calyx, sometimes spathaceous and 

 circumsciss. Staminal-tube truncate or 5-toothed at the apex; filaments 

 numerous. Ovary 5-celled ; o\'ides 3 or more in each cell ; styles 5, 

 more or less connate ; stigma capitate or spatbulate. Capsule loculici- 

 dally 5-valved, sometimes with false dissepiments forming a spuriously 

 10-celled fruit. Seeds numerous, reniform, subglobose, rarely obovoid, 

 glabrous, tomentose or woolly. — Distrib. Chiefly iu the tropical regions 

 of both hemispberes ; species about 150. 



Capsule 6-celled. 



Calyx membranous, inflated 1. H, Trionum. 



Calyx not inflated. 



Invol. bracts distinct, 8-12, forked or provided with a 

 leafy appendage. 



Stipules senii-cordatc, auricled 2. H. surattcnsis. 



Stipules lanceolate 3. H.ftirccdus. 



Stipules linear 4. H. radiatus. 



Invol. bracts without ajjpendages ; seeds cottony. 



Leaves long and narrow ; lower often 3-lobed 5. H. hirtus. 



Leaves broad-ovate, not lobed fi. H. micrantlnis. 



Leaves obovate, retuse or truncate, cuneate at base . 7. H. sindicus. 



Leaves deeply 3-7-lobed 8. H.inlcrmcdius. 



Invol. bracts ; seeds sniootli 9. //. Solandra. 



Invol. bracts without appendages, sometimes adnate to 

 the calyx-tube ; seeds smooth, tubercled or hairy, not 

 cottony. 



Involucral bracts not adnate to the calyx-tube. 

 A tree ; invol. bracts foliaceous, free ; seeds 



glabrous 10. H. collimis. 



An undeishrub ; invol. bracts flat, linear, connate 



at the base ; seeds muricated IG. H. puiicfatus. 



Herbs. 



Invol. bracts connate at the base. 



Invol. bracts narrow-linear; seeds with 



minute stellate scales 11. //. lunariifolius. 



[nvol. bracts spathulate ; seeds shaggy 12. Jl.pandurcBformis. 



Invol. brads free. 



Invol. bracts linear, shorter than tiie calyx. 

 Calyx-lobes cglandular at base; capsule 



5-winged 13. //. vitifolius. 



Calyx-loDes with an obovate gland at base ; 



capsule not winged 14. H. cannabinus, 



Invol. bracts subspinous, longer than tiie 

 calyx 15. H. ca-sius. 



