334 MALVACE^. Hibiscus. 



pi. Rugel, no. 104; Chapm. Fl. 58. Achania pilosa, Swartz, Prodr. 102, & Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 ii. 1224; Ait. Kew. ii. 459. A. Paeppigii, Spreug. Syst. iii. 100. Malvaviscus pilosus, DC. 

 Prodr. i. 445. M. Floridanus, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 89 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 229. — 

 Keys of Florida. ( W. Ind., Mex.) 



* * BoMBicELLA, DC. CoroUa widely spreading in authesis: calyx mostly 5-parted or 

 deeply 5-cleft : seeds rather numerous, bearing long cottony wool. 



H. Coulteri, Harvey. Suffruticose and a foot or more high, or more shrubby and 6 to 8 

 feet high, strigosely hirsute with few-rayed stellular hairs : leaves (about an inch in diame- 

 ter) of rounded or ovate outline ; lowest commonly undivided, cordate or ovate, iucisely 

 serrate and slightly lobed ; upper 3-cleft and the lobes ovate or some 3-5-parted into narrower 

 serrate lobes, sometimes all 3-5-parted : flowers few, long-peduncled : bractlets of the 

 involucel 10 to 14, linear-setaceous, rigid, inch or less long, about the length of the attenuate- 

 lanceolate 3-nerved lobes of the 5-parted calyx, both sparsely hispid with simple rigid hairs: 

 petals broad, inch to inch and a half long, lemon- or sulphur-yellow and commonly purple- 

 tinged : capsule glabrous, shorter than the calyx. — Harvey in Gray, PI. Wright, i. 23. — 

 W. Texas to S. Arizona in the mountains, Wright, Thurber, Havard, &c. (Adj. Mex., 

 Berlandier, Th. Coulter, Gregg, &c.) 



H. RiBiFOLius, Gray.i Proc. Am. Acad. v. 154, is a nearly related species of Lower 

 California ; also H. biseptus, Wats., of Chihuahua. 

 H. denudatus, Benth. Suffruticose, a foot or two high, canescent-tomentose : leaves 

 ovate to rotund, slightly if at all cordate, half inch or inch long, slightly serrate : flowers 

 short-pedunded in the axils and commonly along the somewhat naked flexuous summit of 

 the branches : involucel of 4 to 7 short setaceous bractlets, sometimes half the length of the 

 5-parted canescent-tomentose calyx, sometimes shorter or almost obsolete : petals lavender- 

 purple, half inch or more long : capsule nearly glabrous. — Bot. Sulph. 7, t. 3 (a more 

 branched form, leafy to the top) ; Gray, PI. Wright, i. 22, var. involucellAtus (form with 

 involucel more developed); Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 40. — El Paso, borders of Texas to 

 Arizona, and borders of California. (Lower Calif., adj. Mex.) 



* * * Ketmia. Corolla spreading or open in anthesis : calyx herbaceous, applied to or 

 filled by the fruit : seeds from glabrous to hirsute. — Ketmia, Tourn. Inst. 99, t. 26. 



-1— Calyx 5-parted into lanceolate acuminate spreading lobes in the manner of the preceding : 

 would be referred to that section but for the naked seed. 



H. cardioph^Uus, Gray. Herbaceous from a lignescent perennial base, canescent- 

 tomentose : stems a foot or more high, equably leafy to top : leaves round-cordate, obtuse, 

 more or less crenate, 2 inches or less wide, slender-petioled : peduncles surpassing the 

 leaves: involucel of about 10 spatulate-lanceolate 3-nerved tomentose bractlets, rather 

 shorter than the calyx, which considerably surpasses the glabrous capsule : petals deep 

 rose-red or "vermilion-red" (Palmer), an inch long: seeds rather few, puberulent. — PI. 

 Wriglit. i. 22, not Baill. — S. W. borders of Texas, Wright. (Adj. Mex., Th. Coulter, Ber- 

 landier, Gregg, &c.) 



-1— -1— Calyx 5-cleft or 5-toothed, campanulate. 

 H-+ Shrub, native of Armenia. 



H. SYRfACus, L. (Shrubby Alth^a of gardeners.) Tall shrub, nearly glabrous: leaves 

 rhombic-ovate, incisely dentate, mostly 3-lobed : flowers short-peduncled in the upper axils : 

 petals often 2 inches long, rose-color, varying to white, dark purple at base. — Spec. ii. 695. 

 — Escaped from cultivation in some parts of Atlantic States, but hardly naturalized ; ^ fl. late 

 summer. (Cult, from the Old World.) 



-H- ++ Tall perennial herbs (the first species shrubby in the tropics), large-flowered. 



1 This species, rediscovered at San Jos^ del Cabo by Brandegee, is to be distinguished by its pubes- 

 cent capsule, the fruit of B. Coulteri being glabrous. The leaves of IT. ribifoHus are sparingly pubes- 

 cent, even in the tj-pe, not glabrous as originally described, and the flowers are sulphur-yellow instead 

 of purple. 



~ Now fully naturalized in various places from Pennsylvania to Georgia, ace. to Dr. Small. 



