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Hibiscus whose flowers are small, the seed covered with a cottonous 

 down, and the epicalyx sometimes very small or altogether wanting. 



Hibiscus syriacus. 



Fig. 155. 

 Bud. 



Fig. 156. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



It is the same in Lat/unea, 1 consisting of species of Hibiscus with 

 seeds glabrous or covered with very short hairs, and Lagunaric? which 



Hibiscus syriacus. 



Fig. 160. 

 Seed (f). 



Fig. 159. 



Fruit. 



Fig. 161. 

 Longitudinal section of seed. 



has a thin endocarp separable from the exocarp, and most of the 

 organs covered with a fine scaly down. Finally Paritium* generally 

 separated as a genus, consists of Eose Mallows with large cordate 



1 Cat., Diss., 173, t. 71, fig. 1 (nee alior.). Vent., Malmais., t. 42. — Tttep., in Diet. So. 



— Triguera Cay., Diss., 41 (nee 107). Nat., Atl., t. 138. — Sims, in Bot. Mag., 



- G. Don, Gen. Syst., i. 485. — Endl., Gen., t. 7G9. 



n. 5282. — B. II., Gen., 35, n. 208. — Lagunea 3 GjERTN., Fruct., t. 51. — A. Juss., in ^4. 8. H. 



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