6s 
oblong, equalling the calyx: carpels pubescent, echinated : flowers 
rose-coloured. 
Common in the Southern parts of the Peninsula, flowering in the 
rainy season. 
GENUS IH. PAVONIA. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. In honour of John Joseph Pavon, a traveller in Peru, 
and associate with Ruiz, in the publication of the “ Flora Peru- 
viana.” 
_ Gen. Cuan, Calyx 5-cleft, persistent, surrounded by a 5-15- 
leaved involucel : ovary 5-celled: cells 1-ovuled: style 8-10-cleft 
at the apex: stigmas 8-10: carpels 5, capsular, 2-valved, 1-seeded. 
(1) P. oporata. (Willd.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 47.—Dec. prod. I. p. 444.—Roxb. 
fi. Ind. IIT. p. 214, 
Syn. P. sidoides, Horn. Dec. prod, 1.p. 444.—Hibiscus odoratus, 
Roxb. Hort. Beng. 
Srrc, Cuar. Perennial: stems herbaceous, viscidly hairy: 
leaves cordate, roundish-ovate, uppet ones shortly 3-lobed, toothed, 
more or less hairy and viscid: pedicels axillary, 1-flowered: invo- 
Jucel leaves about 12, ciliated, longer than the calyx: carpels not 
prickly : flowers middle-sized, rose-coloured. 
_ Gingie and Dindigul Hills. Vendaloor. Flowering nearly all 
the year, 
(2) P. Zeyzanica. (Cav. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p, 47.—Dec. prod. I. p. 444.—Roxb, 
fl. Ind, IIT. p. 214. 
Syn. Hibiscus Zeylanicus, Linn. 
Engrav. Pluk. t. 125. f. 3.—Burm, Ind. t. 48. f. 3. 
Sprc. Cuar. Annual; lower leaves somewhat roundish-cordate, 
erenated, upper ones deeply 3-5-lobed, coarsely toothed: pedicels 
axillary, 1-fiowered : involucel leaves 10, ciliated, longer than the 
calyx : carpels unarmed: flowers middle-sized, whitish, 
Trichinopoly, flowering in the rainy season, 
GENUS IV. LEBRETONIA, 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv., Called after Manuel Le Breton, a French Botanist. 
Gey. Cuan. Calyx 5-partite, surrounded by a 5-cleft involus 
