70 THALAMlFLOR-ffi. 



Malva arborea, folio velutino, Sloane, I. t. 135. f. 1. Ket- 

 mia amplissimo folio angulato, Plum. Spec. III. t. 160. f. 2 

 Hibiscus clypeatus, Cav. diss. III. 166. t. 58. f. 1 Swartz, 

 Obs. 270. 



HAB. Red Hills near Spanish-Town, Sloane. Sheldon 

 works and Five-mile Wood, St David's. Salt-River, St Doro- 

 thy's. 



FJ . Decembei-. 



A shrub, 6-12 feet in height: branches erect, terete, hoary 

 and velvety with stellated hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 cordate, angulated or semitrilobate, with the lateral lobes ill- 

 defined and the middle one subacuminate, sparingly toothed, 

 5-7-nerved, hoary and velvety especially beneath, about 4 inches 

 long, and the same broad : petiole about the length of the leaf. 

 Peduncles axillary, solitary, about twice the length of the petiole, 

 1 -flowered. Flowers large but not showy, of a soiled yellow 

 and slightly erubescent colour. Leaflets of the involucellum 



9, 10, or 11, unequal, about an inch in length, linear, longitudin 

 ally nerved, tomentose. Calyx large, externally stellato-tomen- 

 tose ; lobes broad, ovate, acuminate, 5-nerved ; the upper ones 

 erect; the lower ones more or less reflected. The 2 upper 

 petals erect ; the others more or less reflected ; oblong, obtuse, 

 internally puberulous, externally sericeo-tomentose and ciliated. 

 Column of the stamens bent down, thick, subpentagonal, con- 

 nected with the base of the petals by means of strong isthmi : 

 anthers yellow. Styles 5 : stigmata capitato-depressed. Cap- 

 sule 5-celled, 5-valved (with the valves septiferous down the 

 middle), hirsute with bright yellow hairs :' seeds numerous in 

 each cell, black, glabrous. 



This plant has probably received from the Negroes the name 

 of Congo-Mahoe, from its resembling some plant, bearing the 

 name of Mahoe, in their native country. The bark makes a 

 very fine strong cord, and is employed to make the lashes of 

 whips. 



SECT. 3. Cells many-seeded. Seeds woolly. 



10. Hibiscus Bancroftianus. Dr Bancroft's Hibis- 



cus. 



Hispid, leaves ovate, cordate obtuse crenated, pe- 

 duncles axillary longer than the leaf filiform jointed 

 above the middle, involucellum 9-leaved shorter than 

 the calyx. 



HAB. St Ann's. 

 FL. Throughout the year. 



A shrub, about 5 feet in height : branches erect terete, stel- 

 lato-hispid, and traced with two subopposite lines of villous 



