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NATURAL niSTORY OF PLANTS. 



leaves, epicalycine brackets united among themselves at the base, 

 and a membranous endocarp sending into the middle of each cell 

 a false partition, more or less prominent, which divides it more 



Gossypium herbacemn. 





Fig. 163. 



Flower (|). 



- 



■ 



■ 

 - 





Fig. 165. 

 Seed. 



Fig. 162. 

 Hud. 



Fig. 164. 

 Dehiscent fruit. 



. 



i 



Fig. 166. 

 Longitudinal section of seed. 



or less completely into two demicells. With Senra incana, 1 an 

 Asiatic and African undershrub having three large cordate bracts 

 round its flowers and ovary cells with two or three ovules, the genus 

 Hibiscus thus defined 2 comprehends more than a hundred and fifty 



Fl, Bras. Mer., i. 198. — Endl., Gen., n. 

 5283. — Parita Scop., Introd., n. 1276. — Pariti 

 Kdeed., Hort. MaJab., i. t. 30. — Azanza Moc. 

 et Sess. (ex DC, Prodr., i. 453, sect. x.). 



1 Cav., Diss., ii. 83, t. 35, fig. 3.— DC, 

 Prodr., i. 457. — B. H., Gen., 207, n. 33. — 

 Senraa W., Spec, iii. 695. — Serrcea Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5280. — Dumreichera Steud. et 

 HocnsT., in Flora (1838), i. Intellb., 26. 



2 Hibiscus 



sect. 9. 



1. Furcaria (DC). 



2. Bombycella (DC). 



3. Ketmia (Endl.). 



4. Abelmoschus (Medik.). 



5. Trionum (Medik.). 



6. Laguncea (Cav.). 



7. Lagunaria (Don). 



8. Paritmm (A. Juss.). 



9. Senra (Cat.). 



