Malvaceae. 
Hibiscus tiliaceus L. 
Hau. 
va segacaleinn TILIACEUS Linn. oe Me ed. I. (17538) 694;—Forst. Prodr. (1786) no. 
1;—DC, Prodr, I. (1824) 4 Endl. FI. ee 6) 182, no. 1504;—Seem. FI. 
vit (1865) 18 einer in Pchea Am. Acad. VII. (1867) 157, et FI. Haw. Isl” Pr 
Brigham Ka a fee Mem. B. P. B. Mus. I. (1 911) 132, fig. 82.—Paritium 
tiliaceum A. St. Flora Bras, mer. I. (1827) 256;— Bot. U. 8. KE, 
epee re oh oa Enum. Tahit. Pl. (1873) no. ee Hd. FL. Haw. Isl. 
(1888) 4 
aves on we petioles, pectin = shortly acuminate, entire, palmately 7 to 9 
nerve “4 oe s large ovate, sy bea volucre caren et half the length of the calyx 
with 10 to 12 acute lobes; Ranh the aa lanceolate; petals large ye ellow usually with 
a dar = center or pure yellow; ee about 2.5 em in “dinhioiey, opening into 5 valves; 3 
naked seeds to each cell. 
The Haw is one of the most common trees found on the lowlands and on the 
beaches on all the islands; it is a cosmopolitan and occurs in all tropical coun- 
tries, but is especially plentiful in the South Sea Islands. It is a very useful 
tree and is much desired on account of its shade, and is therefore trained into 
lanais or arbors. The wood serves for outriggers of canoes, while the bark fur- 
nishes a tough and pliable bast for ropes. In Fiji the bark is chiefly used for 
the women’s ‘‘liku,’’ a dress consisting of a number of fringes attached to a 
Waist-band. The bark is stripped off, steeped in water to render it soft and to 
allow the fibers to separate. According to Dr. Hillebrand, a decoction is made 
of the flowers by the natives as a useful emollient in bronchial and intestinal 
catarrhs. The Vitian and Tahitian name is Fau, Pago at Guam, Varo or Baro 
in Madagasear, and Au in Rarotonga. 
Hibiscus Arnottianus Gray. 
Kokia keokeo. 
(Plate 114.) 
frees Eee Gray Bot. U. &. B E. (1854) 176; —Mann in Proce, Am, Acad. 
- (1867) 157,—et Fl. Haw Ess. Inst. (1867) 139;—Wawra in 
Flora “Csi 173; 3—Hbd. a “itaw. ia asi 2 48 Del Cast, Il. Fi. Ths, Mar. 
Pae (1890) 121;—Hel Minn Bot. no ad. Bull: EX, (1897) 861— 
H. iotyaniee H. et A. Bot. ae (1832) 79, (n, DC.);—Endl, Flora Beds. (1836) 
182, no. 1495.—Hibiscus Fauriei Leveil. Fedde Repert. X. 6/9. (1911) 1 
Leaves large of variable size, whi blun ee acuminate, entire, 3-nerved, chartaceous, 
dark green; stipules subulat e, caduco flowers solitary in the axils, white with pinkish 
Yelns, or pure white eve ogres pistil, (Molokai, ‘Waila) pedicel articulate near the end; 
involueral bracts 5 to 8 triangular to lanceolate, 4 to m long, calyx 16 to 24 mm, 
ubular, 5-toothed splitting laterally when with fruit; piaree sit whith, obovate-oblong, or 
lanceolate and free, (very variable), 7.5 to 10 em or more long; sso! column long ex- 
a 10 to 15 em _long, red or white, — off filaments of 12 to mm, from its 
upp 
calyx, chartaceous; cscas 5 mm, renifor 
In regard to the nomenclature of this species there seems to have been some 
doubt. Heller and others thought that the white native Hibiseus was _— 
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a name, as Gray in his description of H. Arnottianus says: flowers red 
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