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Spec. Car. Shrub: leaves coriaceous, ovate entire or slightly 
lobed, coarsely toothed, covered on both sides with velvety down, 
whitish beneath: middle nerve beneath with a gland near its base: 
seeds solitary-in each cell, naked. 7 
Mysore and Madura, on high hills. 
(2) D. rrimopata. (Wight.) 
Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor p. 21. 
Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 88. 
Spec. Cuan. Perennial, herbaceous, tomentose: leaves deeply 
3-lobed: lobes narrow, serrate on the margin: stipules subulate, 
longer than the petioles. 
Common on the Ram Ghaut. Belgaum. Flowering in October. 
GENUS VII. ABELMOSCHUS. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Habb-el-misk, the Arabic for a grain of musk. 
1, 5-cleft at the apex, with 5 stigmas: capsule 5-celled, many- 
seeded. oe 
(1) A. escunentus, (W. § 4.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 53. 
Syn. Hibiscus esculentus, Linn. Dec. prod. 1. p. 450.~—H. lons 
gifolius, Willd. Roxb. fl. Ind. III, p. 210. 
Engrav, Cav. Diss. III. t. 61. f. 2. 
Spzc. Cuan. Biennial: stem hairy, but without prickles: leaves 
long-petioled, cordate, 3-5-lobed, toothed, scabrous on both sides: 
pedicels very short: involucel leaves 10, deciduous: capsule pyra- 
midal, elongated: flowers large, sulphur, with a dark blood-colour- 
ed eye. 
A native both of the East and West Indies. The capsule which 
is known as the Bandikai, is a most nutritive and agreeable vege= 
Phe, and widely distributed throughout this country. 
(2) A. ancuxosus. (Wall.) 
Ident, W.& A. prod. I. p. 53. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 951.—Spicil. t, 17. 
Spec. Cuar. Annual: stems not prickly: leaves cordate, 5 
lobed, unequally toothed, upper side softly pubescent, under, tomen<« 
tose : pedicels about as long as the petioles, hairy: involucel very 
