156 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
lobed ; flowers' pedunculate axillary; bractlets under flower 3-5, 
small or deciduous* (Zrop. Asia, Malaysia, Pac. Arch). 
69? Fugosia J.‘—Flowers nearly of Gossypium (or Hibiscus) ; 
calyx 5-fid, valvate. Staminal column dentate below apex, truncate 
antheriferous, filaments o exserted. Germen 3, 4-locular; cells few 
or o-ovolate; style clavate at apex 3, 4-sulcate or divided into 3, 
4 short branches erect clavate stigmatiferous. Capsule loculicidal 8, 
4-valved ; seeds subglobose, generally pubescent or woolly ; embryo 
scantily albuminous ; cotyledons 2, 3-plicate, base auriculate involving 
short radicle.—Shrubs or undershrubs;° leaves entire, lobed or 
more rarely partite; flowers’ generally solitary axillary pedun- 
culate; bractlets under flower 3-w, generally small or deciduous, 
sometimes dentiform’ (Warm America, Trop. Africa, Australia’). 
70? Kosteletzkya Presi.'—Flowers nearly of //idiscus ; filaments 
of staminal column o, exserted below entire or 5-dentate apex. 
Germen 5-locular; ovules solitary in cells ascending ; micropyle ex- 
trose inferior; style branches 5, apex stigmatiferous capitate or 
sometimes dilated. Capsule depressed, prominently 5-angled, locu- 
licidal ; seeds solitary reniform ascending ; other characters of 
Hibiscus—Shrubs or herbs, usually hispid or scabrous ; leaves some- 
times sagittate or angular-lobed ; flowers” solitary or more numerous 

1 Handsome, generally bright yellow. 
2 A genus closely related to Gossypium, thence 
to Paritium among the Hibisci, and rather to 
be considered a section of those, more frequently 
distinguished by the character of style and 
seed (see GAROKE, loc. cit.). 
3 Spee. 5, 6. WiGuT, Icon, t. 5, 8.—SEEM. 
Fl. Vit., 18.—Tuw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 27.— 
Bentu., Fl. Austral., i, 221.—Mast., in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 209,—WatP., Rep., i. 812 
(part.). 
4 Gen., 274.—DC., Prodr., i. 457.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5279.— Payer, Thèse Malvac,, 24.— 
B. H., Gen., 208, 439, 982, n. 36.— Cienfugosia 
Cav., Diss., 174, t. 72, fig. 2.—GARCKE, in 
Bonplandia, viii, 148.—Cienfuegia W., Spec. 
PI. iii. 723.—Redoulea VENT., Jard. Cels., 
t. 11. — ? Bombycospermum Prest, el. 
Henk., ii. 137, t. 71.—Elidurandia Bucxt., 
in Proceed. Amer, Acad. (1861), 450 (ex A 
Gray). 
5 Habit of Hibiscus. 
5 Handsome, generally bright yellow. 
7 Better perhaps as one genus with Thespesia 
and Hibiscus ? 
5 Spec. 10-12, A. S. H., Fl. Bras. Mer., i. 
251, t. 49, 50.—Bzntu., Fl. Austral., i. 219. 
Mast., in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., i. 208.— 
Bot, Mag., t. 4218, 4261.—Watp., Rep. i. 
307; v. 92; Ann., iv. 308; vii. 408, 409 (Hli- 
durandia), 
9 Rel. Henk., ii, 130, t. 70.—DC., Prodr., 
i. 447.—ENDz., Gen., n. 5276.— PAYER, Thèse 
Malvac., 20.—A. Gray, Gen. Il. t. 132.— 
B. H., Gen., 206, n. 29.—Thorntonia REicug., 
Consp., 202 (part.). 
10 Bright yellow, pink or purple, corolla patent 
or erect-convolute. 

