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leaves: pedunéles 1-floweted, axillary or terminal, and furnished 
with two bracteoles: involucel 10-14-toothed or cleft, shorter than 
the calyx: petals not auricled: style. 5-cleft: stigmas 5, exserted 
beyond the 5-toothed staminiferous tube: capsules 5-celled, 5-valv- 
ed, appearing 10-celled by the introfiexion of the valves: cells 
several-seeded. 
(1) P. rinraczum, (St. Hil.) 
Ident. W. & A, prod. I. p. 52. 
Syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus, Linn. Dee. prod. I. p. 454.—Roxb. 
ji. Ind. TIL p. 192.—H. similis, Blume.—H. elatus, circinnatus 
and guineensis, Dec. J. ¢. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. II. t. 78.—Rheede Mal. I. t, 30.— 
Wight’s Icon. I. t. 7. 
Srrc. Cuar. Small tree: leaves crenulated, roundish-cordate, 
suddenly acuminated, hoary on the under side: stipules broad, 
ovate: involucel 10-lobed: flowers large, sulphur, with a dark 
blood-coloured eye. 
Malabar and Travancore. Rutnagherry. Flowering all the year. 
(2) P. mackornytium. (@. Don.) 
Ident. Don’s Mill I. p. 485. 
Syn. Hibiscus Macrophyllus, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 51.—Dee. 
prod. I. p. 455. , 
Engrav. Wall. pl. As. Rar. I. t. 51. 
Spec. Cuan. Tree, 40 feet: leaves roundish-cordate, acuminat-. 
ed, crenulated, pale and glandular beneath: petioles‘and peduncles 
tomentose: involucel leaves 12-14: seeds bearded on the margins: 
flowers terminal and axillary, solitary or twin, large, yellow, with a 
‘purple eye. . 
Bengal. Chittagong. Silhet. 
GENUS VII. DECASCHISTIA. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sev: Syst: 
. Deriv. From Deka, ten, and Schizo, to split, alluding to the 
10-Vvalved capsules. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx 5-cleft: involucel leaves 10, more or less 
unequally united below: petals not auricled: style 10-cleft: stig- 
mas 10: capsule 10-celled, 10-valved, the valves attached by the 
dase to a 10-angled central column. 
(1) D. crorontrotia. (W, §& A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 52. 
. Syn. Hibiscus crotonifolius, Wall, 
Engrav, Wight's Icon. t. 42. 
