traversed by ten or twelve longitudinal veins, which are pinnately 
branched. STaMENS numerous, united into a column, surrounding 
the style, the external stamens separating from the internal ones at a 
lower point of the main column as it ascends ; anthers kidney-shaped ; 
pollen pale yellow. Ovary 5-lobed, 10-furrowed. Sty_e somewhat 
longer than the stamens, 5-parted towards the apex, each segment 
thickly clothed with long spreading hairs, and terminating in a flat 
capitate stigma. 
PopuLar AND GEoGRApHICAL Notice. A hardy perennial herba- 
ceous plant, from two to four feet high, producing from July to October 
a number of beautiful rose-coloured flowers. It i8 a native of Gascony, 
growing on the banks of the river Adour. The species of the genus 
Hibiscus are natives rather of warm than temperate climates: among 
those of the West Indies is the Hibiscus mutabilis, or changeable rose- 
hibiscus, the flowers of which are white in the morning, pale red at 
noon, and bright red in the evening ; but this change does not happen 
if the thermometer fall below 67° of Fahrenheit, but it then passes in- 
directly into yellow, the colour assumed by the petals of most of our 
fruit trees when dying. The seeds of most hibisci are mucilaginous 
and nutritive; hence those of several species are used in the Levant 
to thicken soups. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. This fine species of 
Hibiscus was first raised in Rnviend i in 1827, from seeds collected in 
Italy, by the Hon. W. F. Strangways; our drawing was, however, 
made from a plant raised in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, from 
seed taken from a dried specimen received by F. Westcott, Esq. from 
the German Union. Very few collections p this species. It may 
be increased slowly by division ; and ates by cuttings of the young 
Shoots, taken off when about three inches high, with a heel of the hard 
substance of the crown to them. It should be planted in-a deep soil, 
and remain undisturbed. A rather moist situation for it has been 
bee most suitable. : 
DERIVATION OF THE Names. 
Hisiscvs. The word iBiccoe occurs in Sears but it is 
supposed to 
ply to some ype of mallow. Itis said to be deriv : from ibis a stork, ane 
eseeds. Rosxvs, from rosa, alla: i the colour of its flowers. 
SyNonyMEs. 
tear ean RosEvs. Thore in Loiseleur Fl. Gall. . 434. Decandolle, 
ore Frangaise, Suppl. p- 626. Sweet's Flower Garten, 277. Decandolle, 
Prodromus S ystematis Regni Vegetabilis, Vol, I, p. 450. 
