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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



hispid, with alternate, stipulate, simple, entire, or more or less deeply 

 cut or partite leaves. The flowers are axillary, terminal or lateral, 

 accompanied by from three to five, or more often by an indefinite 

 number of bracts, free, or united for a variable distance and forming 



Hibiscus syriacus. 



FlG. 157. 



Flower, without the 



perianth (\). 



Fig. 154. 



Floriferous branch {\). 



Fig. 158. 

 Gynsecenm {'\). 



a caducous or persistent epicalyx. The Eose Mallows proper 1 

 have the bracts of the involucre entire, the calyx quinquefid 

 not swollen, and the seed glabrous. In Furicaria? the bracts of 

 the involucre are dilated at their summit into a foliaceous plate, 

 or they are more or less deeply bifurcate ; most of their organs 

 are bristling with rigid hairs. Trionum 3 consists of herbaceous 

 species with swollen vesicular calyx. Abelmoschm* often distin- 

 guished as forming a particular genus, has a long gamo- 

 sepalous calyx generally irregularly torn at the base and an 

 elongated fruit, with vertical prominent ribs. Bombycellcc' comprises 



1 Ketmia Endl. [inch : Cremontia Com- 

 MEKS. (ex DC), Ketmia DC, Sabdariifa DC.]. 

 7 DC, Prodr., 449, sect. v. 



3 Medik., Malvac., 46. — DC, Prodr., sect. 

 vm.—Frioncea B. H., Gen., 208. 



4 Medik., Malvac, 45. — Endl., Gen., 982. 

 — Bamia \\. Br., mss. (ex Endl.). — llyme- 



nocalyx Zenk., PL Ind., t. 10 [inch sect, (iii.) 

 Manihot DC, Prodr., 448 et sect, (v.) Abel- 

 rnoschus DC (part.), Prodr., 449]. 



6 DC, Prodr., 458 (sect. vii.). — Bomhyx 

 Medik., Malvac, 44. — •B.ombgcodendron Zoll. 

 (ex Hassk., PI. Jav. Ear., 301). 



