322 A FLORA OP "MANILA 



Cultivated for its edible fruits, fl. most of the year. The culture of 

 this species is by Ac means general in the Philippines, and it seems to 

 have been of comparatively recent introduction, at least after 1845. Prob- 

 ably a native of India, now cultivated in most tropical and subtropical 

 countries. 



9. HIBISCUS Linnaeus 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees, glabrous or hairy, sometimes spiny. Leaves 

 entire or more or less palmately lobedj stipulate. BracteQles 6 or more, 

 rarely wanting, free or connate at the base. Calyx 6-toothed or 5-lobed. 

 Petals 6, connate at the base with the staminal-tube. Staminal-tube trun- 

 cate or 5-toothed at the summit. Ovary 5-celled; styles .5, connate beiow. 

 Capsule loculicidally 5-valved. (An ancient Greek and Latin name of the 

 mallow.) 



Species about 190, mostly tropical, 10 in the Philippines. 



1. An annual herb, cultivated only , 1. H. aabdariffa 



1. Shrubs or trees. 

 2. Leaves 6-angled or 54obed; a shrub with large pink flowers, most 

 parts densely grayish-stellate-pubescent; cultivated only. 



2. H. mutabilia 

 2. Leaves not angled or lobed. 

 3. A tree with yellow flowers, the leavefi very prominently cordate at 



the base 3. H, iiliaceus 



3. Shrubs, cultivated only, the flowers red; leaves not cordate. 



4. Flowers very large, petals entire..^ 4. H. rosa-sinensis 



4. Flowers medium, pendulous, the petals very deeply fimbriate- 

 divided.. 5. H. achizopetalus 



*1. H. SABDARIFFA L. Rozelle. /i, 



An erect, branched, glabrous or nearly glabrous, annual herb 1 to 2 m 

 high, the stems purplish. Leaves 8 to 12 cm long, polymorphous, entire 

 to deeply 3- or 5-lobed, the lobes oblong to oblong-lanceolate, often free 

 nearly to the base of the leaf, toothed. Peduncles axillary, solitary, much 

 shorter than the petioles. Bracteoles 8 to 12, linear, adnate to the base 

 of the calyx, about 1 cm long. Calyx .somewhat hirsute, the lobes acu- 

 minate, connate below thei middle into- a fleshy cup. Corolla pink with a 

 dark center about 5 cm long. Fruit oyoid, pointed, villous, about 2.5 

 cm long, enclosed by the fleshy^jcid^cCrescent calyx. 



Cultivated, Singalonr^in5ov!-Jan. A native of India, now cultivated 

 in many tropical and warm countries for its edible fruits; of very recent 

 introduction in the Philippines. 



♦2. H. MUTABiLis L. Mapola (Tag.). 



An erect, branched shrub 2 to 4 m high, more or less densely covered 

 with short, grayish, stellate hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular-ovate, 

 5-lobed or 5-angled, crenate, 7 to 20 cm long, acuminate, base cordate. 

 Pedicels axillary, solitary, 8 to 14 cm long. Bracteoles 10, linear, stellate- 

 pubescent, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, nearly or quite free. Calyx 3 to 4 cm long, 

 densely stellate-pubescent, -the lobes 5, oblong-ovate, acuminate, connate 

 below. Corolla -10 to 12 cm in diameter, single or double, opening pale- 

 pink, or nearly white, growing darker in color as the day advances. (Fl. 

 Filip. pi. 175.) 



Cultivated for ornamental purposes, fl. most of the year; a native of 

 China, now cultivated in most tropical countries. Not spontaneous in the 

 Philippines, but of early introduction. 



