98 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
leaves, epicalycine bractlets 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 herbaceum. 

Fie. 163. F1G. 164. 
Flower (4). Dehiscent fruit. 

-F1G. 165. Fie. 162. Fie. 166. 
Seed. Bud. 
Longitudinal section of seed, 
or less completely into two demicells With Seara incana, 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’? comprehends more than a hundred and fifty 

Fl, Bras, Mer. i. 198.—Enpu., Gen., n. 
5283.—Parita Scor., Introd., n. 1276.— Parili 
Rueep., Hort. Malab., i. t. 30.—Azanza Mog. 
. Furcaria (DC.). 
. Bombycella (DC.). 
Ketmia (ENDL.). 
et Sess. (ex DC., Prodr., i, 453, sect. x.). 2 Hiniscus | 4. Abelmoschus (MEDIK.). 
È Cav. Diss., ii. 83, t. 35, fig. 3.—DC., . Trionum (MEDIK.). 
Prodr., i. 457.—B. H., Gen. 207, n. 33,— sect, 9, . Lagunea (CAY.). 
Senræa W., Spec., iii. 695.—Serræa ENDt., 
Gen. n, 5280,—- Dumreichera Sreup. et 
Hocusr., in Flora (1838), i. Zntellb., 26. 
. Lagunaria (Don). 
. Paritium (A. Juss.). 
. Senra (Cav.). 
WCONANEWNE 
