48 MALVACEAE. | Hibiscus. 
Invol. bracts 9—10, linear, entire, stiff, 6B—10” long. Calyx 8/4—1', very 
hispid, cleft to below the middle, the tube 10- ribbed, the narrow tariealale 
lobes often with a gland at their base. Petals 2—3 ‘, spreading, yellow, 
pubescent outside. Staminal column not longer, bearing subsessile anthers 
down to the lowest third. Style-branches hirsute, less than 2“; capsule 
7—10", ovoid, densely hispid, enclosed by the calyx. Seeds 5 in each 
cell, angular, studded with the papillar bases of evanescent hairlets. — 
The corolla turns green after dryin 
Rather rare, in the serub vegetation of the lee-side chiefly; Oahu! Makaleha; W. 
and E. Maui! tanner vinsage of cuhbritins on account of the showy flowers, as are 
pres the two following speci 
H. Arnottianus, Gray, 1. c. p. 176. — A tall shrub, but often a 
small tree, 10—25 ft. high, with a dense crown, glabrous throughout. 
Leaves ovate, 2—31/2' X 1!/2—2’, bluntly acuminate, repandly crenulate 
or entire, 3-nerved, chartaceous, on petioles of 1—1"/2’, Stipules subulate 
bracts 5—7, tria angular to lanceolate, 2—3” Jon ng. Calyx 8—12", thin, 
tubular, 5-toothed, splitting jataralty when with fruit. etals ye. 
obovate-oblong, oe long claws, 3—4‘, pubescent below. U dpesaee colum 
long exserted, 4—6’, red, sendi ing off filaments of 6—8” from its upper 
half or third. OR Re 3—4", erect. Capsule elongate, as long as 
the calyx, chartaceous. Seeds 2/2, reniform, covered with a short 
brownish wool. — H. Boryanus, Hook. & Arn. 1. c. (non DC). — Mrs. 
Sinclair, pl. 11. 
orests between 1500 and 3000 ft. above the sea, probably on all islands; Kaua 
Oahu! Maui! Hawaii! On Oahn in Pauoa ,» Manoa, and on Pua ah = the ce ahh 
range. Kauai specimens have the rd slightly seat othcoey Nat. : «Hauhele» 
«Kokio keokeo» 
4. H. Kokio, Hillebr. in Flora, 1873, p. 173. — A tall shrub, 8—14 ft. 
high, dividing from the base into 0 long straggling branches, the young 
shoots with discreet stellar pubescence. Leaves ovate- or élliptico-oblong, 
3—4' xX 11/2—2/, rather long-acuminate, sinuately crenate, scarcely palmate- 
nerved, the lateral nerves not extending beyond the middle, BONE: 
gabrow on petioles of 3—9”. Flowers axillary, solitary, fe e 
ends of short lateral branches. Pedicels 9—15“, pubescent, extéoxlbts in 
the upper third. Invol. bracts 6—7, linear, 4—6” long. Calyx tubular 
or subcampanulate, 9—15", cleft to the niidale into 5 acute lobes, glabrate. 
Petals 2—21/2/, entire, r Staminal column shorter, red, the sho 
filaments crowded near the 5-toothed apex. esaoseggpcrab 4—5” long, 
spreading horizontally, ciliate. Capsule glabrous, 9”. Seeds 2! /2, reni- 
form, covered with a coarse brownish pubescence. — Minis Sinclair, pl 9 
(the horizontal style-branches not well brought into view). 
