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capsule spherical, depressed, coriaceous, indehiscent. The com- 

 mon Bendy tree. Syn. Hibiscus populneus, Linn. ; Malvaviscus 

 populneus, Gaertn, t. 135. The wood is fine-grained and tough; 

 makes good gun-stocks, wheels, and boat timbers. 



2. T LAMPAS, Dalz. Mss. Shrubby; leaves cordate 3-lobed, 

 sub-glabrous, lobes spreading, acuminate; peduncles axillary, three- 

 flowered ; calyx truncated with five minute teeth ; flower as in the 

 preceding ; capsule ovoid indehiscent. Common in the Concan and 

 Ghauts ; 3 to 4 feet high. Syn. Hibiscus lampas, Cav. ; Paritium 

 gangeticum, G.Don; Wight's Ic. without number. Native name 

 Ran Bendy." 



5. PARITIUM, Adr. Juss. 



I. P TITIACEUM, Adr. Juss. in. St. Hil. Flor Bras. 1, 198. A 

 tree ; leaves roundish cordate, with a sudden acumination, crenula- 

 ted or entire, underside hoary ; flowers like the Bendy, involurel 

 10-lobed; capsule 5-celled 5-valved. At Rutnagherry and banks 

 of the Tericol river, Warree country. Syn. Hibiscus tiliacens, 

 Linn. ; Wight Ic. t. 7. 



6. ABELMOSCHUS, Med. 



1 . A TETRAPHYLLUS, Graham in Cat. Bomb. PI, p 1 4. A large, 

 annual erect hairy plant ; leaves long-petioled, palmate, variously 

 lobed and toothed ; flowers yellow, with a dark-purple bottom ; 

 involucel 4-leaved ; capsule hairy. Island of Caranjah and the 

 Meera hills ; abundant. Syn. Hibiscus tetraphyllus, Roxb. Fi 

 Ind. iii, p 21 1. 



2. A WARREENSIS, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p. 123. 

 Stem rough, with erect bristles ; leaves broadly cordate acuminate, 

 coarsely crenate, sprinkled with stiff hairs on both sides ; involucre 

 as in the preceding, but not falling off as in that species ; flowers 

 fascicled terminal, or on short axillary branches. In the Warree 

 country ; flowers and fruit in January. 



7. HIBISCUS, Linn. 



1. H FURCATUS, Roxb. Climbing, all rough with numerous 

 recurved prickles ; stipules oblong or lanceolate ; leaves palmately 

 3 to 5-lobed, densely pubescent beneath, nerves beneath prickly ; 

 leaves of involucel about 10, linear incurved, with an oblong foliaceous 

 appendage at their back about the middle. DC. Prod. 1, 449. 

 Common on the Ghauts. 



2. VESICARIUS, Cav. Annual, with hairy stems, 5-cleft leaves, 

 and inflated membranaceous calyx. Common during the rains, 

 chiefly on black soils. Syn. H triomixn ? 



