96 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. 
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Fie. 157. Fia. 154. FIG. 158. 
Flower, without the Floriferous branch (3). Gynæceum (4). 
perianth (2), 
a caducous or persistent epicalyx. The Rose Mallows proper! 
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’ consists of herbaceous 
species with swollen vesicular calyx. Abelmoschus,' 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. Bombycella’ comprises 

1 Ketmia Env. [incl. : Cremontia Com-  nocalyx Zmnx., Pl. Ind., t. 10 [inel. sect. (iii.) 
MERS. (ex DC.), Ketmia DC., Sabdariffa DC.]. Manihot DC., Prodr., 448 et sect. (v.) Abel- 
? DC., Prodr., 449, sect. v. moschus DC. (part.), Prodr., 449}. 
3 Mepik., Malvac., 46.—DC., Prodr., sect. 5 DC, Prodr., 458 (sect. vii.).— Bombyx 
viil.— Trionea B. H., Gen., 208. Mpix, Malvac., 44.—Bombycodendron Zou. 
4 Mepix., Malvac., 45.—END1., Gen., 982. (ex Hassk., Pl, Jav. Rar., 301). 
—Bamia R. Br. mss. (ex ENDL.).—yme- 
