(74) TEXTAMEN FLOR.E LUTCHUENSIS. 341 



DiSTRiB. Formosa and Cliina. Commonly cultivated in 

 Japan, Cliina, India, and otlier warm countries. Also 

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

 Kyiishu and Amami-Oshima [S. Tanakal 25 Sept. 1891, fl., 

 sub " spontanea "). 



H. syriacUS, L. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 69-3 ; Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 

 p. 418 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. III, p. 195 ; DC. Prodr. I, p. 448 ; Miq. 

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

 344; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PL Jap. I, p. 64; Thunb. FL 

 Jap. p. 272; Forbes et Hemsl. Ind. FL Sin. I, p. 88; Henry, 

 List PL Formos. p. 21. 



Insula Utciiixa : in Idzunzatchi-mura ad oppidum Nafa 



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



Distrib. Common in China, both wikl and cultivated ; 



also cultivated in Japan and India. 



Thespesia, Soland. ex Corr. 



T. populnea, SoLand. ex Correa in " iVnn. Mus. IX, p. 

 290, t. 25, f. 1 (1807) ; DC. Prodr. I, p. 456; Wight, Ic. PL 

 Ind. Or. t 8 (var. Rheedii, Pierre) ; Wight et Arn. Prodr. Fl. 

 Peu. 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. 

 343 ; Hillebrand, FL Hawaii. IsL p. 49 ; Baker f. in Journ'. Bot. 

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

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



Beng. p. 51 ", et FL Ind. IIF, p. 190. 



H. populneoides, Roxb. FL Ind. IH, p. 191. 



