Mibiscus.| MALVACE. 81 
Annual or biennial, 1-2 ft. Leaves deeply lobed. Flowers 
axillary .. io i 58 JE na 
Perennial, 3-6ft.; stem prickly. Leaves broad, lobes 
shallow. Flowers in terminal racemes ; 
1. A. triomen. 
2. H. diversifolius. 
1. H. trionum, Linn. Sp. Plant. 697.—A simple or branched 
annual or biennial 1-2ft. high, scabrous-pubescent or hispid; 
branches erect or spreading. Leaves very variable, 1-3 in. long, 
lower orbicular-cordate with 3-5 shallow lobes, middle and 
upper deeply 3-5-lobed or -partite; segments oblong or lanceo- 
late, coarsely toothed or incised. Flowers on short axillary 
peduncles, large, 1-l4}in. diam., pale-yellow with a dark-brown 
centre. Bracteoles 7-12, narrow-linear, hispid. Calyx mem- 
branous, inflated, with numerous raised hispid veins, shortly 
5-lobed. Capsule ovoid-globose, hirsute, enclosed in the bladdery 
calyx. Seeds glabrous.—Bot. Mag. t. 209; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 
98: Handb. N.Z. Fl. 31; Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 210; Kirk, Stu- 
dents #U-(3. A. vesicarius, Cav. Diss. in: 171, ¢.:64, £. 2; A. Cunn. 
Precur. n. 607; Raoul, Choix de Plantes, 48. 
NortH Is~tanp: Sheltered places near the sea, from the North Cape to the 
Auckland Isthmus, rare and local. Hicks Bay, East Cape, Bishop Williams ! 
SoutH Istanp: South Wanganui, Lyail. In most tropical countries outside 
America. 
2. H. diversifolius, Jacq. Ic. Plant. Rar. t. 551.—A tall stout 
and rigid perennial 3-6 ft. high, often woody at the base ; branches, 
petioles, and nerves of the leaves covered with short conical prickles. 
Leaves on stout petioles 2-3 in. long; blade 2-4 in., broadly cordate 
or nearly orbicular, irregularly toothed, angular or slightly 3-5- 
lobed, scabrous. Flowers in terminal racemes, large, handsome, 
2-3 in. diam., pale-yellow with a dark centre. Pedicels short ; 
bracts lanceolate or 3-fid. Bracteoles 10, linear. Calyx-lobes 
lanceolate, bristly. Capsule ovoid, acuminate, densely hispid.— 
Benth. Fl. Austral. 1.2138; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. iii. (1871) 
163 ; Students’ Fl. 73. 
NortH Istanp: Moist sandy places near the sea, from the North Cape to 
Hokianga and the Bay of Islands, rare, Culenso, Kirk! R. H. Matthews ! 
ane Ce Also in Australia, the Pacific islands, tropical Africa, &c. 
Both this and the preceding species are being rapidly destroyed by cattle, 
fires, &c., and are now rare or almost extinct in localities where they were plenti- 
ful twenty or thirty years ago. 
Orper XI. TILIACES:. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, seldom oppo- 
site, simple, entire or toothed or lobed. Stipules usually present, 
often caducous. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, 
axillary or terminal, usually cymose. Sepals 3-5, free or connate, 
generally valvate. Petals the same number as the sepals or fewer, 
rarely wanting, imbricate or valvate, entire cut or multifid. 
