344 xxvi. MALVACEAE. ' (Maxwell T. Masters.) [Hibiscus. 



H. TRICUSPIS, Banks in Cav. Diss. iii. t. 55, f. 2 ; arboreous, leaves 

 3-luljed glandular beneath. DC. Pru<l,\ i. 453; Roxb. Fl. Intl. iii. 202; 

 Wall. Cat. 1914B. Paritium tricuspe, G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 485; I!'. <f A. 

 Prodr. i. 52. 



Cultivated in NORTH- WEST INDIA and BENGAL (introduced from the Society isles, 

 Roxburgh}. 



Tree, herbaceous portions covered with stellate white down. Leaves 4-5 hy 3 in., 

 glabrescent above, hoary-pubescent beneath, base cuneate or cordate, lobes lanceolate, 

 slightly lobedj petiole '24-3 in. Stipule* ovate. Peduncles terminal, ra<- 

 Bracteoles deciduous, ovate, leafy, half the length of the linear-lanceolate sepals. ( '<>- 

 rolla yellow with a purple base. Capsule spuriously 10-celled. Boxburgh describes 

 calyx and epicalyx as ten-parted, but this is probably an error. 



Prodr. i. 448 : shrubby, leaves ovate acu- 



Cultivated in gardens throughout India. 



Stem woody, branched, not prickly. Lniiv,* entire at the base, coarsely toothed at 

 the apex. St''jml<-* ensiiorm. l,ra> // .,/,.> G. 7, linear, half the length of the bell-shaped 

 calyx, fr-pulx 3 i ni> lanceolate, connate below the middle. Corolla '.'> in. diain.. r.-d. 

 roundish, many-seeded , Lonreiro). - Th-re are numerous varieties differing in 

 colour, duplication, &c. The (lowers arc used to black shoes. Roxburgh says it is 

 wild in llindostan, but 1 have seen no wild specimens. AVight and Arnott - 

 that the plant should be placed in section llombicella, but the seeds are not known, 

 and the habit is more that of the section Ketniia. 



'I here is a plant in herbaria from (irillith and others, to which the manuscript names 

 of Jl. liliijlorus (not of DC.), and of.//. Anmtti (not of Gray), are attached. J t appears 

 identical with Wallich's l.H'.io D, described in Wall. Cat. I.e. as a hybrid plant intro- 

 duced to the Calcutta garden from Mauritius and said to be a form of H. rosa s' 



\\. MUTAP.IUS, L. : I)( 1 . Prodr. i. 4.",2 ; arborescent, leaves downy 



H. aestuans, Roitler in ll> //,. Rl, ( lr 1 1 ,,,-(. Mai. vi. 38-42. 



Cultivated in gardens, native of China (Roxburr/h). 



A small tree without prickles. Leaves 4 in. diam., cordate, toothed; petiole 3 in. 

 Pulmu-li' 4-5 in., jointed near the top. Bracts shorter than the calyx. I'lmrcrs 3-4 

 in. diam. Kerala ovate-lanceolate, connate below the middle. Corolla white or pink 

 on tirst opening in the morning, deep red by night. ('n/mili' globose, flattened, hairy. 

 /> reniform, hispid. In Dr. Urandis' herbarium there is a specimen from Martaban, 

 lab. 'lied //. r, inixt.iix, Blume (Bi.jdr. 71), which differs from the Indian specimens of 

 //. fnv.to.bUis in its more tomentose pubescence and hirsute seeds; iSlnme's plant, more- 

 over, is said to have 5 bracteoles, but there are more than 5 in the Martaban plants. 



A L. ; DC. Pi-ntlr. i. 448 ; shrubby, leaves cuneiform ovate 



3-l>!=ed dentate, peduncle cixilljiryj'lp^*ji*^tbe petiole, bracteoles linear 

 half the length of the calyx. Cav. Ui*s. iii. t. 69, f. 1 ; Roxb. FL In.iJ. iii. 

 195; Wall. C>it. 1891 ; Hfiq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 157. H. rhombifolius, 

 Cat'. J)i#s. t. 69, ex Roxb. 



Cultivated throughout India and in China. 



nrriDcIn's destitute of prickles. Leaves 2 in., nearly or quite glabrous ; petiole short. 

 Peduncle shorter than the petiole. Bracteoles 6-7, linear. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 longer than the bracteoles. Petals obovate, longer than the calyx. Aiitlicr* in whorls 

 all the way up the column. Capsule oblong, obtuse, slightly hispid. Seeds pilose. 



