Hihism^.] XXII. MALVACE^. 125 



deeply 3 or 5-lobed with oblong or lanceolate irregularly- toothed lobes. Flowers 

 rather large, pale-yellow with a dark-purple centre, on; axillary pedicels. 

 Bracteoles 7 to 12, linear-setaceous. Calyx about ^in. long when in flower, twice 

 that size in fruit, inflated, membranous with about 20 raised veins, glabrous or 

 slightly hirsute, very shortly 5-lobed. Capsule ovoid-globose, hirsute, enclosed in 

 the calyx. Seeds glabrous.— Bot. Mag. t. 209 ; Reichb.' Fl. Germ. v. 181 ; F. 

 V. M. Fragm. ii. 115; H. Richardsoni, Sweet; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 175; H. 

 trionioides, G. Don, Gen. Syst. i. 483 ; H. tridactylites, Lindl. in Mitch. Three 

 Exped. i. 85. 



Hab.: Between the Burnett and Dawson Rivers. 



A weed in the cultivation paddocks of the southern Downs. 



Common throughout Africa and southern Asia, extending northwards to China and the Amur. 

 Found also in New Zealand. — Benth. 



6. H. brachysiphonius (short-tubed), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 67 and 243 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Amtr. i. 210. A low perennial or undershrub, with erect or decumbent 

 stems, rarely above 1ft. long, slightly hirsute with short stifl' stellate hairs. 

 Lower leaves small, orbicular, undivided, crenate ; upper ones divided into 3 

 obovate or oblong-cuneate coarsely crenate or lobed segments or deep lobes, mostly 

 1 to l|^in. long. Flowers rather small, pink, on axillary or terminal pedicels, 

 sometimes very long. Bracteoles about 10, rather rigid, linear, shorter than the 

 calyx. Calyx ciliate with a few stiff hairs, deeply divided into lanceolate 1- 

 nerved lobes, not thickened at the margin. Petals about ^in. long. Staminal 

 column short, bearing round the summit about 20 filaments much longer than in 

 most species. Style-branches long, with large capitate stigmas. Capsule nearly 

 globular, glabrous, 4 to 6 lines diameter. Seeds 4 to 6 in each cell, tomentose- 

 villous. 



Hab.: Mooni River, Peak Downs, Comet River, and other parts. 



7. H. microchlaenus (bracteoles minute), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 116 (under H. 

 solcmifolius) ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 211. Apparently shrubby, densely clothed 

 with a scabrous, rigid-velvety, or softer and almost floccose stellate tomentum. 

 Leaves on rather short petioles, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 1 to l^in. longy 

 obtuse, slightly toothed, thickly and rigidly tomentose. Flowers apparently pink 

 or purple, on pedicels rather longer than the petioles. Bracteoles 7 to 9, some-' 

 times very minute, sometimes half as long as the calyx. Calyx Jin. or rather 

 more, densely scabrous-tomentose, deeply divided into lanceolate 1 -nerved lobes. 

 Petals 1 to IJin. long, more or less stellate-tomentose outside where exposed in 

 the bud. Capsule globular, glabrous or slightly hairy. Seeds more or less 

 bordered or covered with long woolly hairs. — H. brachychlcsnus, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. iii. 5. 



Hab.: Cape River. 



8. H. Burtonii (after R. C. Burton), Bail. Bot. Britt. ii. '7. A rather 

 straggling small shrub, closely clothed with short rigid stellate hairs, which are 

 somewhat longer on the leaves. Lower leaves not collected, those of the flowering 

 shoots preserved, narrow-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 1 to l^in. long, rounded at 

 the base, on petioles of 2 to 5 lines ; margins slightly crenate or deeply and 

 irregularly toothed. Flowers small, solitary, on slender axillary pedicels of about 

 fin. long. Bracteoles 8 or 9, subulate, not, over a line in length, covered with 

 scabrous stellate hairs hke the other parts of the plant. Calyx scarcely Jin. long, 

 very deeply divided into narrow-lanceolate lobes, the midrib and also a parallel 

 vein or rib near each margin prominent, scabrous, with :St6l|ate hairs outside, 

 glabrous on the inside. Corolla probably lilac, the petals but slightly exceeding 

 the calyx-lobes, hairy on the back, with rather stiff mostly simple hairs. 



