Hibiscus.] MALVACEAE, 47 
5. HIBISCUS, L. 
Involucre of several free bracts. Calyx 5-lobed or toothed. Staminal 
column ending in 5 teeth, antheriferous outside, Carpels 5, with several 
ovules in each, united into a single 5-celled ovary. Style 5-lobed at the 
top, or nearly entire, with terminal stigmas. Capsule loculicidal. Seeds 
reniform or globose, Ee or tomentose. — Herbs, shrubs or trees, 
Flowers often large an 
A large genus, widely spread over the warmer See of the globe 
In general cultivation: H. Rosa sinensis, H. mu abilis, H. esculentus (Ochra or ae 
H. Manihot, H. moschatus, H. Sabdariffa, H. vais. H. corse ites: H. phoeniceus. 
Leaves lobed: 
Flowers pink; involucral bracts bifid ‘ : ‘ ; . H. Youngia 
Flowers yellow; involucral bracts entire é ? ‘ : Ne? 5 Brackeublapet 
Leaves entire: 
Flowers white; style-branches erect . : = : F 3. H. A phoma 
owers red; style-branches horizontal . é 4. H. Kok 
. H. Youngianus, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 91. — Hook. & Arn. in 
re Beech. p. 79. — An erect, sparingly branching undershrub, 2—3 ft. 
igh, with a light pithy stem, tomentose, and covered throughout with 
short spinescent bristles which fall away from a papillose base. Leaves 
cordate-ovate, almost entire, or obtusely 3- to 5- lobed, the middle lobe 
longest, aentuae with broad patent teeth, palmately 7-nerved, scabrous- 
pubescent on both faces, most so underneath and along the nerves, 
3—4!/2‘ & 2—4', on jomiees of 1/2—2'. Pedicels single in the axils o 
the upper leaves, about 1/2‘ long, sometimes Hage 2 or more flowers. 
Invol. bracts 10, linear, bidentate at the apex, —8" long. Calyx 9—18", 
thick, densely setose, strongly 10-ribbed, pe to near the middle into 
lanctelaieasaie lobes which close over the mature capsule, their median 
nerves with a gland in the upper half. Petals puberulous, pink, obo 
emarginate, 2—3‘. Staminal columm half as long, with short (!/2’‘) Seeks 
along its entire length. Style-branches 1“. Capsule 9—15", covered with 
appressed hairs. Seeds 1'/2, numerous, globose-reniform, pale, glabrous. 
— Gray, Bot. U. S. E. E. p. 174. — Mrs. Sinclair, ph31. 
In marshes and care ania taro-patches here and there on et Soepemiag? Ag = soln 
near Honolulu. “Nat. name: «Akiohala». y s, Cay. 
2. H. Brac. Mca Gray, Bot. U. S. E. Exp. p. 175 ge £2. 
erect, light-wooded shrub, 4—5 ft. high, with fiomttie stiff branches 
tomentose at the ends and beset with short patent spines which are 
— on papillary bases and soon deciduous. Leaves on long petioles 
of 3—5‘, rounded in outline, 3'/2—4‘ each way, cordate, 5—7-lobed, with 
sharp and narrow sinuses, and besides coarsely toothed or cut, mem- 
branous, glabrate, of a lively green. Stipules setaceous. Peduncles ettacy 
axils of the uppermost leaves, 6 or less, articulate at the base. 
