&2 MONADELPHIA. POtTANDUlA. 



outer calix wanting-, leaves mostly trifid, canescentiy to- 

 mentose. Hab- From the confluence of the river iMaUe 

 and the Missouri, often extending over the plains in suck 

 quantities as to communicate a brilliunt redness to thou- 

 sands of acres. This plant has no sort of affinity to Crh- 

 tanUf and by the fruit is a genuine AJalva. 



A genus of more than 60 species, many of them indi. 

 genous to tropical America, to the Cape of G<jod Hope, 

 and some to Eiu-ope. 



479. MALOPE. L, 



Calix double; exterior S-leaved, Capsules 1- 

 seeded, aggregated without order. 



Leaves entire or lobed, flowers axillary, mostly solitary 

 Species. 1. J\t malacoides. v. s. in the herbarium of 

 Stephen Elliot, Esq., Charleston. — Of this genus there aie 

 2 other specif, s in Greece and Barbary. 



480. HIBISCUS. L. 



Calix double; exterior many-leaved. Stigmas 

 mostly 5. Capsule 5-celIed, many-seeded. 



Shrubby or herbaceous; leaves entire or palmately lubedj 

 flowers axillary and terminal. 



Species. 1. H. JMoscheutos. 2. palustris. 3. g7^a7idi' 

 forus. 4. incaniis. 5. virgiyiicus. 6. militaris. 7- speciosus. 

 8. Manihot. 9. ncaber. 10. esndentvs. Cultivated. Origi- 

 nally from India. It flowers and ripens seeds in the gar- 

 dens of Pennsylvania. 



A tropical genus containing about 70 specie?, chiefly 

 indigenous to America, India and its islands, a few species 

 extend to the temperature zone, Persia, the Cape ol Good 

 Hope and N(jrth America; the flowers ol' many are splen- 

 did, and some of the species are aborescent. 



481. HALESIA. L, (Snow-drop Tree.) 



Calix 4-tootIicd, superior. Corolla 4 -cleft. 

 JS'^nt corticate, quadrangular, 2 or 4 of tiie an^. 

 glcs alated, 2 to 4 -ceiled, 2 to 4-seeded. 



Trees with alternate entire leaves; peduncles 1 -flow- 

 ered, latcralh airgregated upon the branches; flowers sub- 

 campanulate, pendulous. (Germ in //. tetmpfera^ 4-ccUe<i, 

 cells libout 4-seeded; nut by abortion 1 to 4-ceiled 1 to 4- 

 seeded.) 



Species. IH. tetraptera. In Carolina, Georgia and Flo- 

 rida! and on the banks of Pi'cnch Broad and oiher r.vers 



