126 MALVACEE. : | [ Hebiscus. 
parts slightly greyish pubescent ; == ovate, on a short canescent 
tiole, rounded or obtuse at base, acute or acuminate, coarsely 
toothed, glabrous, or beneath along the nerves slightly appressed 
puberulous ; flowers large, le rose-coloured or white, rarely 
watery-yellow, solitary, axillary, on a slender elongate pedicel as 
long or longer than the leaves ; anvoluors consisting of 6-7 linear 
leaflets about half so long as as oblong acuminate puberulous calyx- 
ee ; capsules nearly globos 
4B.—Much cultivated in one ar eee ae ines. and occasionally seen 
wild j in neglected lands round villages.—Fl. 
* * Involucre-leaflets waitod up 5 the middle or at teast at the 
base, sometimes forming a cup. 
5. H. hastatus, L. f. (H. tricuspis, Cav.; Hf. Ind. Fl. i. 
344) —A small evergreen. tree or shrub, the younger parts slightly 
pubescent or tomentose ; leaves about 4 ‘tt. t. long, long-petioled, 3-5- 
lobed, with the lobes elongate and hlontish acuminate (the middle 
one usually much longer), slightly toothed or entire, above along 
the nerves and beneath wholly pubescent ; flowers large, sulfur with 
a dark-purple eye, axillary, solitary, or more usually by 2-3 in a 
long-peduncled axillary raceme; involucre pelt shaped, tomentose, 
divided into 9-10 rigid linear-lanceolate lobes about $ so long as the 
lanceolate densely tomentose calyx-lobes ; capsules oblong, depressed 
and acute at top, tomentose; seeds reniform, minutely granulate, 
glabrous. 
Has.—Rarely cultivated in gardens.—Fl. R. 8. 
6. iH. tiliaceus, L.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 343; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
=e, t. 4, £1. —Theng-pen or thimban.—An evergreen tree (25—30 
+6—10+42—8), usually crooked and stunted or shrub-like, the 
yo oe parts shortly and densely tomentose; stipules broadly 
oblo , deciduous ; leaves cordate-ovate or broadly cordate, 
4-6 in. “long, long-petioled, shortly and abruptly acuminate, entire 
or crenulate, above roughish from minute stellate hairs, soon glab- 
rescent, beneath ne t® and densely tomentose ; flowers ] 
ex = aedenns in the Soak and tidal forests es ne the shores from 
Soe Chittagon down to jp aaeaie and the Andamans, ascending the rivers as far 
= waves.—Fl, Fr. o—l.—SS. = Ca. Sal. 
Runanns.—Liber a ands fibre for cordage. Wood soft and valueless. 
1. H.macronhyllus, Roxb.; H. £. Ind. Fl. i. 8337.—Yetwoon.— 
pee ——— tree (30—50 + 15—30 + SS all softer parts 
