Cienfuegosia. MALVACE^. 337 



H. MAnihot, L. Tall and stout, glabrous, with some bristly hairs on the branches and stalks : 

 • leaves large, palmately or pedately 5-9-parted into long and narrow lobes : bractlets oblong- 

 lanaeolate, persistent for some time : corolla 4 or 5 inches in diameter, pale yellow or straw- 

 color with a dark purple eye : capsule oblong, hispid, especially on the angles. — Spec. ii. 

 696 ; Miclix. Fl. ii. 45 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1702, & Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3152 (the var. palma- 

 tus, with upper leaves cleft into ovate-lanceolate incisely serrate lobes) ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 

 i. 236. H. ColUnsiana, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 237, partly. — Sparingly spontaneous in most 

 southerly Atlantic States. (Nat. ? from S. E. Asia.) 



H. ESCDLENTUS, L. (Okra, Gombo.) Low, hairy or glabrate, not bristly: leaves rounded 

 and 5-lobed, lobes broad : flowers on short stout peduncles : bractlets narrowly linear, cadu- 

 cous : corolla 3 or 4 inches in diameter, yellow, with purple eye : capsule oblong-lanceolate 

 or narrower, 4 to 6 inches long (when young and mucilaginous used for oim or ^omto soup). 

 — Spec. ii. 696 ; Cav. Diss. t. 61 ; Desc. Fl. Ant. iv. t. 269. H. ColUnsiana, Torr. & Gray, 

 1. c. partly, not Nutt. — Rather cult, than nat. in S. Atlantic States. (Nat.? from Africa 

 via VV. Ind.) 



§3. Paritium. Involucel a campanulate 8-10-toothed or -cleft cup: calyx 

 5-cleft : capsule with the 5 cells more or less bilocellate by a dorsal thin-mem- 

 branaceous and indehiscent bilamellar intruded false partition ; seeds numerous : 

 stipules oblong, caducous. — Paritium, A. Juss. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. i. 255. 

 — Tropical trees or high shrubs : yield Cuba bast, &c. 



H. TiLiAcEus, L. Leaves ample, round-cordate, short-acuminate, entire or obscurely crenate, 

 glabrous or glabrate above, tomentulose-cauescent beneath, and bearing a linear gland on 

 base of one or more of the ribs : involucel and calyx persistent : petals yellow, hardly over 

 2 inches long : seeds glabrous or merely puberulent. — Spec. ii. 694 ; Desc. Fl. Ant. ii. t. 

 148 ; Chapm. Fl. 58. Paritium tiliaceum, A. Juss. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. 255 ; Griseb. 

 Fl. W. Ind. 86. — Keys of S. Florida ; probably a natural introduction from W. Ind. (All 

 tropical shores, probably of Old World origin, while the large-flowered hairy-seeded H. 

 elatus, Swartz, is indigenous in America.) 



21. THESP^ISIA, Solander. (©eo-TrcVios, divine or excellent.) — Mostly 

 tropical trees or shrubs, with ample cordate and entire leaves, and large flowers ; 

 habit of Hibiscus, § Paritium. — Solander in Correa, Ann. Mas. Par. ix. 290, 

 t. 8, f . 2 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 208. Malvaviscus, Gsertn., not Dill. 



T. popt5lnea, Solander, 1. c Low tree : leaves green, barely puberulent : 1 -flowered peduncles 

 shorter than the petioles : petals 2 inches long, yellow and purplish : fruit globose, over an 

 inch in diameter. — DC. Prodr. i. 456 ; Wight, Ic. i. t. 8 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 87. Hibiscus 

 populneus, L. Spec. ii. 694 ; Cav. Diss. iii. t. 56, f. 1. — Keys of Florida, Curtiss ; probably 

 introduced from W. Ind. (Most tropical shores, probably of Old World origin.) 



22. CIENFUEGOSIA, Cav. {B. Cienfuegos, a Spanish botanist of the 



time of Bauhin.) — Suffruticose or suffrutescent plants, with the habit of the 



smaller Hibisci, mostly yellow-flowered. — Cav. Diss. iii. 1 74, t. 72, f . 2. Fugosia, 



Juss. Gen. 274 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 208. Gienfuegia, Willd. Spec. iii. 723. 



Pedoutea, Vent. Descr. PI. Nouv. Jard. Cels, t. 11. [Revised by B. L. 



Robinson.] 



C* SUlphurea, Garcke. Herbaceous or nearly so, almost glabrous : stems ascending, 

 barely a foot high : leaves oval, inch or two long, repand-dentate, rather long-petioled: pe- 

 duncles about equalling the subtending leaves : involucel of 7 to 9 linear or spatulate- 

 lanceolate bractlets, little shorter than the deeply 5-cleft calyx : petals greenish yellow or 

 sulphur-yellow, nearly inch long : stigmas 4 or 5 : capsule globular, glabrous ; seeds 2 in 

 eacli cell, tomentulose. — Bonplandia, viii. 150; Morong & Britton, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 

 vii. 60. Fuf)osia sulfurea, St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. i. 252, t. 49. F. Drummondli, Gray, PI. 

 Wright, i. 23 & ms. of present work ; J. G. Smith, Kep. Mo. Bot. Gard. vi. 113, t. 49. Eli- 



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