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tel: petals 5, protruding beyond the calyx, and there with a twist. 
ed zstivation: styles 5, each 2-cleft: stigmas 10: carpels 5, un- 
armed, 1-seeded, indehiscent. 
L. procumsens. ( Wight.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 47. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. I. t. 4.—Pluk. t, 352, f. 5. 
Spzc, Cuar. Procumbent, more or less pubescent: leaves 
roundish, cordate, serrated, 3-lobed, middle one the longest : pedi- 
cels axillary, solitary, 1-flowered: involucel much shorter than the 
corolla: carpels wrinkled: flowers yellow. : 
Peninsula, 
GENUS V. HIBISCUS. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Ser: Syst: 
Deriv. From Hibiscos, the Greek term for the mallow. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 5-cleft, surrounded by an involucel, with 
its leaves usually distinct, and sometimes united at their base, or 
far as their middle: petals not auricled on the one side: ovary 5- 
celled: cells with three or more ovules: style 1, 5-cleft at the apex : 
stigmas 5: carpels united into a 5-celled, 5-valved, loculicidal cap- 
sule: cells usually many-seeded. 
(1) H. vesicarius. (Cav. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 48.—Dec. prod. I. p. 453. 
Spec. Cuar. Annual: leaves toothed, lower ones undivided, 
upper ones 5-cleft: lobes oblong, nearly equal: flowers large, 
cream-coloured, with a dark-purple eye. 
Peninsula, flowering in the cold season. 
(2) H. Trionum. (Linn.) 
Ident. Dec. prod. I. p. 453. 
Engrav, Cav. Diss, IIT. t. 64. f. 1.—Bot. Mag. t. 209. 
Src. Cuan. Annual: leaves toothed, lower ones undivided, 
upper ones 3-lobed: lobes lanceolate, middle one the longest : 
calyx inflated: flowers cream-coloured, with dark-purple eye. 
Cuddapah, flowering in the cold season. 
(3) H, Surattensis. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 48.—Dec. prod. I. p. 449.—Roxb. 
A. Ind. ITI. p. 205. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VI. t. 44.—Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 16.— 
Pluk. t. 5. f. 4. —Cav. Diss. LIT, t, 33, f. 1.—Wight’s Icon, t. 197. 
Bot, Mag. XXXIII. t. 1356. 
