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as or longer than the leaf ; involucel leaves about 9, linear subulate, 

 spreading bristly, rather longer than the acuminate calyx leaves ; 

 flowers large yellow, showy, with a purple bottom ; capsules ovoid- 

 pointed, covered with spreading bristles. Mountain valleys, eastern 

 side of the Northern Ghauts. 



8. LAGUNEA, Cav. 



1. L LOB ATA, Willd. Herbaceous, lower leaves cordate, upper 

 palmate, uppermost tripid or lanceolate ; pedicles arranged in 

 a terminal lax, leafless raceme. Near Belgaum. Syri. Lolandra 

 lobata, Murray ; Triguera acerifolia, Cav. ; Hibiscus solandra, 

 L'Her. ; Sida diversifolia, Spr. syst. iii, 116. 



9. PAVONIA, Cav. 



1. P ZEYLANICA, Cav. Lower leaves roundish cordate cre- 

 nated, upper deeply 3 to 5-lobed, coarsely toothed ; pedicles axillary 

 1-flowered; leaves of involucel 10, ciliated; carpels unarmed. 

 Near Gogo. Syn. Hibiscus zeylanicus, Linn. 



10. DECASCHISTIA, W. and A. 



1 . D. TR i LOBATA. Wight Ic. 88. Herbaceous tomentose ; leaves 

 deeply 3-lobed, lobes narrow minutely dentate serrate on the 

 margin ; stipules subulate, longer than the petioles ; capsules 

 10-valved ; flowers in October. Common on the Ram Ghaut, also 

 the Koombarli Ghaut. 



11. MALVA, Linn. 



1. M ROTUNDIFOLIA, Linn. Stems herbaceous, spreading; 

 leaves cordate roundish, shortly and obtusely lobed, crenated, 

 petioles elongated ; pedicles several together, unequal ; axillary 

 one-flowered; flowers small, white or pale-pink ; carpels wrinkled 

 and reticulated on the back. Common about the Deccan villages. 



12. GOSSYPIUM. 



1. G OBTUBIFOLIUM, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 183. Shrubby, 

 branched, diffuse, straggling ; leaves small with 3, rarely 5, obtuse 

 ovate entire lobes ; stipules falcate ; exterior calyx with entire 

 divisions ; capsules ovate, cells 3-seeded, cotton on the seeds of a 

 dirty greenish, grey colour. Drier parts of the Deccan ; not com- 

 mon. Roxburgh says that it is a native of Ceylon, but this 

 must be a mistake, as it is not in Thwaites' list. This is with good 

 reason supposed to be the parent of the common cultivated cotton, 

 and is found all over the limestone rocks of the Sind coast. 



