PLATE CCLXXXVI. 



HIBISCUS PATEHSONIUS. 



Norfolk IJland Hibifcus. 



CLASS XYL ORDER VL 

 MONABELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx duplex; exterior polyphyllus. Stigmata 

 5. Capfula 5-locularis, polylperma. 



Empalement double; outer one many-leaved. 

 Five Summits. Capfule five -celled, many- 

 leeded. 

 See Hibiscus MUTABi LIS, Pl.CCXXVIlI.Vol.lv. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Hibifcus foliis acuminato-lanceolatis, coriaceis, 

 I'upra punctalis, fiibtus tomentofis; floribus 

 axillaribus; calycibus monophyllis, quin- 

 quedentati.s. 



Hibifcus with tapering lance-fliaped leave», 

 leathery, dotted above and downy under- 

 neath ; flowers grow from the infertion of 

 the leaves; cups one-leaved, five-toothed. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Cup with its foot-lbdk. 



2. The columnar part of the Chives cut open, the pointal taken away. 



3. The Pointal. 



-1. A Ikinny membrane, which furrounds the feeJ-bud at the bafe. 



5. A ripe capfule, with the enlarged cup attached. 



6. The fame, cut through the middle horizontally. 

 7- A ripe leed. 



The Norfolk Ifland Hibifcus is a tender greenhoufe plant; was introduced to Britain, in the year 

 1792, having been raifed from feeds communicated by Col. Paterfon, then ftationed on that Ifland. 

 It attains the height of 12 feet, or more, becoming a fmail tree; may be increafed readily from cut- 

 tings, and fhould be planted in a mixture of loam and fandy peat. Our figure is from a fpecimen 

 received from the Right Hon. Lord Vifcount Courtenay, in whofe colledion at Powderham, near 

 Exeter, it flowered for the firft time in the year 1800; and where alfo the feeds ripened. 



We have no doubt but this plant belongs to the Genus Lagunaea, of Schreber ; but as he propofes 

 himfelf, and as L Heritier as juftly obferves, the fimplicity of the cup is not a fufficient ground, on 

 which to found a new genus; fo we have rather given our prefent fubjeft, the name under which it 

 is in general known, than adopt a title for it which is acknowledged by the author, as rather 

 unwarrantable. 



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