140 MANN, 



at the apex, the divisions 4" long ; stigmas capitate. Ovary oblong 

 (I' long), glabrous. Seeds numerous, biserial in each cell, glabrous. 



Mountains behind Honolulu, Oahu. Vicinity of Hilo, Hawaii. Native names* 

 "Puahanui" and " Akiahala." 



4. H. (PARITIUM) TILIACEUS Linn. (Enum. No. 45.) A small 

 tree. Leaves on long stalks, orbicular-cordate, shortly acuminate, en- 

 tire or crenulate, white or hoary underneath with a short close tomen- 

 tum, nearly glabrous above, 3' - 5' in diameter. Peduncles short, in 

 the upper axils or at the ends of the branches. Flowers large, yellow, 

 with a dark crimson centre. Involucre campanulate, divided usually 

 to the middle in 10- 12 lobes, about half the length of the calyx. Ca- 

 lyx nearly an inch long, the lobes lanceolate. Capsule about 1' in 

 diameter, opening in 5 valves, bearing the placentas on their centre 

 and their thin margins turned inwards so as to make the capsule ap- 

 pear 10-celled. 



Very common below 1,000 or 2,000 elevation, especially in moist places. A common 

 sea-coast tree in many tropical countries, and very abundant in the Pacific Islands. Na- 

 tive name, " Hau." 



Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis Linn., is much cultivated for its showy scarlet or purplish 

 flowers. A shrub. Leaves ovate, long acuminate, coarsely toothed, glabrous. Petioles, 

 peduncles, bractlets, and calyx puberulent. The 10 bractlets linear acute. Calyx lobes 

 broadly ovate, acuminate. 



5. THESPESIA Corr. 



Bractlets 3-5, small or deciduous. Calyx truncate, minutely den- 

 tate, rarely 5-toothed. Stamineal column dentate below the apex, and 

 branching into an indefinite number of filaments. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 cells few ovuled. Style somewhat club-shaped at the apex, 5-grooved. 

 or partly divided into short, erect, club-shaped, and stigmatic branches, 

 Capsule very hard-coriaceous, loculicidally 5-valved or nearly indehis- 

 cent. Seeds obovoid, glabrous, or tomentose ; cotyledons much com- 

 plicated, nearly including the short suberect radicle, often black dot- 

 ted. Trees or upright herbs. Leaves entire or lobed. Flowers 

 usually yellow, showy. Calyx not especially dotted, but the cotyledons 

 very much so in T. populnea and T. Lampada. 



A small genus, of the Pacific Islands, tropical Asia, and Madagascar. 



1. T. POPULNEA Corr. Tree with something the aspect of the 

 Hau, but more erect. Leaves round-cordate, acuminate, entire, 4' - 5' 

 in diameter. Flower yellow, petals 2' long. Capsule globose, nearly 

 indehiscent. Seeds 4" long, villous at the base and angles. 



Lahaina, and probably elsewhere. In all probability introduced. Common on many 

 of the Pacific Islands, and the coasts of tropical Asia and Australia. 



