Cienfucjosia. M ALVAC'K.i:. 337 



H. MAnihot, L. Tall and stout, glalirouw, wiili Home lirLstly hairs on tlic linmrhfn and HtaiU: 

 leaves large, ])aliiiately or jiedalelv 5-'J-|jarted into Ion;; and narrow ioU-s : l.r.K tU-l* til.U.ng- 

 lanceolate, persistent for some lime : lorolia 4 or T) in.iii!* in diameter, pali- yi Uow or blraw- 

 color with a dark purple i-ye : capsule oldong, liisj.id, es|)ctially on tin- an'gl.-H. — .'^jR-f. ii. 

 696 ; Michx. Fl. ii. 45 ; Sims, Hot. Mag. t. I7i)2, & Hook. Hot. Mag t. .-Mil' (the var. /«./m«. 

 <«A-, witii upper leaves cleft into ovate-lameolato inci.Hely herrate lolien) ; Torr. & (;rav, Kl. 

 i. 2.J6. //. Culllnsidiia, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. '2'.il, partly. — Sparing! v Mp<intaneou» iu most 

 soutlierly Atlantic States. (Nat. ? from S. K. Asia.) 



H. E.SCLLESTL-.S, L. (Okka, Go.muo.) Low, liairy or glahrate. not liristly : leav.-H njunUwl 

 and 5-lol)ed, lol)es broad : Howers on short stout pedunelus: hmctlets narrowly linear, cadu- 

 cous : corolla 3 or 4 inches in diameter, yellow, with purple eye : capsule ohlong-lan<-eolttUj 

 or narrower, 4 to 6 iuches long (when young and mucilaginous used foro/l/aor 7'»»/i/«noup). 

 — Spec. ii. 61)6 ; Cav. Di.ss. t. 61 ; Desc. Fl. Aut. iv. t. 269. //. Collinsiamt, Torr. & (;niv. 

 1. c. partly, not ^■utt. — Kather cult, than nat. in S. Atlantic States. (Nat.? from Africa 

 via W. Ind.) 



§3. Paritium. Involucel a campanulate 8-1 0-toothed or -cleft cup: calyx 

 5-cleft : capsule with the 5 cells more or less bilocellate by a dorsal thin-nicm- 

 branaceous and indehiscent bilamellar intruded false partition ; seeds num<'rous : 

 stipules oblong, caducous. — Paritium, A. Juss. in St. llil. Fl. Bras. Mirid. i. 2.')'t. 

 — Tropical trees or high shrubs : yield Cuba bast, &c. 



H. TiLiAcEis, L. Leaves ample, round-cordate, short-acuminate, entire or ohscurelv crenat*-, 

 glabrous or glabrate above, tomentulose-canescent beneath, and liearing a linear gland on 

 ba.se of one or more of the ribs : involucel and calyx persistent: petals yellow, hardlv over 

 2 inches long : seeds glabrous or merely pulierulcnt. — Spec. ii. 694; De.sc. Fl. Ant. ii. t. 

 148; Chapm. Fl. 58. Paritium tiliacenm, A. Juss. in St. llil. Fl. Hras. .Mcr. i. 255; Gri.<el>. 

 Fl. W. Ind. 86. — Keys of S. Florida; prol)ably a natural introduction from W. In<l. (All 

 tropical shores, probably of Old World origin, while the large-flowered hairj-.seeded //. 

 I'lalus, Swartz, is iniiigeuous in America.) 



21. THESPfiSIA, Solander. (©co-Trt'o-io?, divine or excellent.) — Mo.stly 

 tropical trees or shrubs, with ample cordate and entire leaves, and large Howt-rs ; 

 habit of Bibiscus, § Paritium. — Solander in Correa, Ann. Mus. Par. ix. 290, 

 t. 8, f. 2 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 208. Malvaviscus, Ga^rtn., not Dill. 



T. POP^TLNEA, Solander, 1. c Low tree : leaves green, barely puberulent : 1 -flowered jieduncle.s 

 shorter than the petioles: petals 2 inches long, yellow and puridisii : fruit globose, over an 

 inch in diameter. — DC. Prodr. i. 456; Wight, Ic. i. t. 8 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 87. Ilihisrus 

 popnlncus, L. Spec. ii. 694; Cav. Diss. iii. t. 56, f. 1. — Keys of Florida, Curliss ; probably 

 introduced from W. Ind. (Most tropical shores, probably of Old World origin.) 



22. CIENFUEGOSIA, Cav. (B. Cienfuegos, a Spanish l)otanist of the 

 time of Bauhin.) — SulTrutico.se or suffrutcscent plant,s, with the habit of the 

 smaller Bihisci, mostly yellow-flowered. — Cav. Diss. iii. 174, t. 72, f. 2. Fugosia, 

 Ju.ss. Gen. 274 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 208. Cienfuegia, Willd. Spec iii. 72:1. 

 Redoutea, Vent. Descr. PI. Nouv. Jard. Cels, t. 11. [Htvi.>;ed by B. L. 



ROBINSOX.] 



C* sulphurea, Gaucke. Ilorbaoeous or nearly so, almost glabrous: stems ascending, 

 barelv a foot high : leaves oval, inch or two long, repand-dcntate, rather long-|)eti<d«Ml ; j)e- 

 dnncies about erinalling tlie sul)tending leaves: involucel of 7 to '.t linear or ."palul.-ito- 

 lance(date bractlets, little shorter than the deejdy 5-cleft calyx : petals gn»enish yellow or 

 suli)liur-yellow, nearly inch long: stigmas 4 or 5: cap.<?ule globular, glabnms; hccIk 2 in 

 each cell, tomentulose. — Bonidandia, viii. 1.50; Morong & Hritton, Ann. N. V. Arad. S<i. 

 vii. 60. Fugosia sulfiirrn, St. llil. Fl. Hr:is. Merid. i. 252, t. 49. /'. !>rummon<ti{. Gray. I'l 

 Wright, i. 23 & ms. of present work ; J. G. Smith, Kep. Mo. Hot. Card. vi. 113, t. 49. /.7i- 



