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Hrebs, erect, with Alternate Stipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals United. 



hairy winding, afterwards purple, petals 5, united 

 below and with the staminal tube, stamens united 

 into a tube, styles 5, united half way up ; capsule 

 oblong, blunt, 5-celled, velvety, splitting from above 

 into 5 valves, seeds many, kidney -shaped, velvety 

 with star-shaped hairs. 



Hibiscus surattensis, 



see Prostrate Herbs, Alternate, Stipulate, Lobed, 



Hibiscus Solandra, 



Malvace^. 



F. B. I. i. 336. 



The Plains to 5,000 ft. 



Simla. 



Sutlej Valley (CoUett). 



medium-size, annual, velvety or hairy, slightly 

 branched ; leaves 1-2|^ in. across, heart-shaped at 

 the base, short-pointed, coarsely toothed, hairy on 

 both sides, lower leaves long-stalked, ovate or 

 circular, more or less 3-lobed, upper deeply 3-lobed, 

 lobes narrowly oblong, stipules bristly ; flowers ^-f 

 in. diam., yellow, white or pink on solitary jointed 

 axillary stalks, 1^ in. long, in a loose leafless termi- 

 nal raceme, sepals united below, triangular, short 

 pointed, petals broad at the tip, notched ; capsule 

 ovoid, pointed, hairy at the top, not longer than the 

 calyx, seeds blackish ; otherwise like Hibiscus 

 Trionum, 



Hibiscus vitifolius, large, annual or biennial, hairy, slightly prickly,. 



Ban kapds. branches many ; leaves 1-4 in. diam., 3-7 lobed,. 



Malvace^. lobes short-or long-pointed, smooth or felted on 



F. B. I. i. 338. both surfaces, toothed, stalks 2| in., stipules very 



The Plains to 2,000 ft. small, bristly; flowers 2^ in. diam., yellow with a 

 purple centre, drooping on axillary, solitary or 

 clustered at the end of branches, stalks jointed 

 bracteoles 5-8, bristly, linear,not united and short- 

 er than the calyx, sepals united half way up, 

 lanceolate, velvety, petals two or three times as long 

 as the sepals, capsule hairy, beaked, 5-winged, 

 shorter than the sepals, seeds brown, tubercled ;. 

 otherwise like the last species. The bark yields a 

 strong silvery fibre. 



