124 MALVACEE. [ Hibescus. 
oo Scag 3-valved. Seeds reniform, stellately pubes- 
with 
“ —Tree palmatinerved leaves. Flowers panicled. 
. K. calycina, Borst H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 348; Bedd. Sylv. 
Mads. 28, t. 3, ee rand. For. Fl. 29.—Dwa-bote—A tree 
(25—40 +8—20 ;: 4 , sometimes remaining shrubby, shedding 
leaves in HS., all parts more or less stellate-tomentose or velvety ; 
bark thin, dakearey, wrinkled, with annular Bitsbeces SF 3 leaves 
cordate or ovate, about 4-5 in. long and broad, a 1-2 in. long 
stellate-pubescent petiole, 5-7-nerved at the sondut base, blunt or 
‘acuminate, bluntish-lobed, chartaceous, scabrously stellate-pubes- 
cent above, beneath stellate- velvety or floccose stellate-pubescent, 
the midrib with a gland at the middle ; flowers rather small, white, 
in lateral and terminal stellate-toenlibet panicles ; involucel usu- 
ally 4-leaved, stellate-pubescent ; capsule enclosed by the persistent 
bell-shaped calyx and supported by the spreading blunt accrescent 
involucel-leaflet 
Has.—Not t nfo in the mixed and open forests of Se and Prome 
also Ava.—Fl. Jan. ; Fr. H.S.—sx1—SS. = CaS. SiS. Metam 
REMARKS —Wood white, ht-grained, for hoki The 
liber yields fibre. ——— = ag 
HIBISCUS, L. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. — free, or more or less con- 
nate, several, rarely reduced to 5 or fewer. Calyx 5-lobed or 
toothed, or spathaceous. potas. 5, connate at base with the staminal 
tube. Staminal tube truncate or 5-toothed at the summit ; 
filaments many; anthers l-celled. Ovary 5-celled, with 3 or more 
ovules in each cell ; styles 5, connate at base. Capsule loculicidally 
5- or rarely spuriously 10-celled, velvety, dehiscing.— Herbs, shrubs, 
or trees, with more or less ‘palma tely lobed or entire leaves. 
Flowers often showy, in axillary inflorescences. 
* —— regular, not spathaceous, more or less persistent. Leaflets of imvo- 
cre free or nearly so. 
x oe rounded a 
All parts, also ow age = volucre, pases scurfy-tomentose ; 
involucre-leaflets . A. mutabilis. 
g, but all ee softly to mentose ; involucre and ‘calyx 
densely eta: ‘nwotuere-lenfets 7 (or 5). . A. venustus. 
xx minate or acute. Glabrous or 
nearly ee 
_ Pedicels shorter than the petioles . + +... + H, Syriacus. 
__ Pedicels elongate, longer than the petioles . H. Rosa Sinensis. 
ok Involucre-leaflets united up to the middle or at least at 
sometimes fi ig [P- 
Erect trees or glabrous, 
pales ie oie Ce ire * * * ° . H, hastatus. 
ded, entire or crenulate. =. wo EE telewoene, 
