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caducous : calyx conical: capsule ovoid, very hispid: flowers 
large, sulphur, with a dark blood-coloured eye. 
Neilgherries. 
(3) A. nueosus. (Wail. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod, I. p. 53. 
Syn. Hibiscus hirtus, Burch, Roxb, fl. Ind. TIT. p. 208. 
Srec. Cuar. Annual: hispidly hairy, except the pedicels: stem 
not prickly: leaves 5-lobed, toothed, tomentose: upper lobes lan- 
ceolate, acuminated, lower ones oblong, pointing downwards: pedi- 
cels arranged in a terminal, leafless raceme: involucel leaves 10, 
bristly, persistent: capsule ovoid, hairy: flowers large, sulphur, 
with a dark blood-coloured eye. 
Madura Hills, flowering nearly all the year. 
(4) A. moscHatus. (Moench.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 53. 
Syn, Hibiscus moschatus, Roxb. H. Abelmoschus, Lina. 
Dec. prod. I. p. 452.—Roxb. ft. Ind. III. p. 202. 
' Engrav. Rheede Mal. H. t, 88,—Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 15.— 
Wight’s Icon. t. 399. 
Spec. Cuan. Annual: stem rough with hairs, not prickly: 
leaves hispid with rigid hairs, coarsely toothed, deeply 5—7-lobed : 
lobes oblong or lanceolate, acuminated : pedicels harshly pubescent, 
axillary, about as long as the petioles: involucel leaves 6—10, li- 
near, hairy, somewhat persistent: capsule oblong, hairy: flowers 
Jarge, sulphur, with a dark blood-coloured eye. 
Madura and Courtallum. Bengal, extending northwards to the 
foot of the Himalayas. Flowering nearly all the year. 
(5) A. Ficutneus. (W.§ A.) 
Fdent. W.& A. prod. I. p. 53. 
” Syn. Hibiscus ficulneus, Linn. Dec. prod. I. p. 448.—H. 
rostratus, Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 208.—Lagunea aculeata, Cav. 
Dee. prod. I. p. 474. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t, 154.—Cav. Diss, III. t. 71. f. 1.— 
Lam. Il, t. 577. 
Spzc. Cuan. Annual: stem prickly, with small, sharp tuber- 
cles: leaves hispidly hairy, palmately 5-lobed, upper ones 3-lobed: 
lobes narrower towards the base, unequally toothed: upper pedicels 
arranged in a leafless raceme: involucel leaves 5, lanceolate, very 
caducous: calyx oblong, hispidly tomentose: fruit ovoid, covered 
with harsh tomentum: flowers white, with a rose-coloured eye. 
Southern provinces of the Peninsula and the Northern Circars, 
Flowering nearly all the year, 
