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GENUS XI. LAGUNEA. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sez: Syst: 
Deriv. Named after Andreas Laguna, a Spanish Botanist of the 
sixteenth century. 
Gey. Cuar. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent, without an involucel : 
ovary 5-celled: style 5-cleft at the apex: capsule 5-celled, 5-valv- 
ed, loculicidal : cells 5—6-seeded. 
L. ropata, (Willd) 
Ident. W. & A, prod. I. p. 55.—Dec. prod. I. p. 474. 
Syn, Solandria‘lobata, Murr.—Triguera acerifolia, Cav. Diss. 
I. p. 41. ¢. 11.—Hibiscus solandra, L’Her.—Sida -diversifolia, 
Spreng. Syst. III..p. 116. 
' Engrav. Lam. Ill. t. 580.—L’Her. Stirp. Nov. t. 49. 
Spec. Car. Annual: lower leaves cordate, upper palmate, 
uppermost trifid: pedicels 1-flowered; arranged in a terminal, leaf- 
less raceme: flowers smallish, white. 
Dindigul and Gingie Hills. Coromandel. Monghur. Flower- 
ing in the:rainy season. 
GENUS XII. ABUTILON. 
Monadelphia Polyandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Greek term for the Mulberry, owing to the 
resemblance to that plant in the leaves. — 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-cleft; persistent, without: an involucel : 
ovary 5 or many-celled: ‘styles 5 or more: stigmas capitate : cap- 
sule composed of several-seeded, 2-valved cocci: peduncles. axil- 
lary, solitary, rarely in pairs, ‘1 or many-flowered, sometimes form- 
ing terminal spikes by the abortion of the leaves. 
(1) A. poryanprum. (W.& A.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 55. 
Syn. Sida polyandra, Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 173.—S. persica, 
Dec. prod. I. 478. 
Engrav. Burm. Ind. t. 47. f. 1. 
Srec. Cuan. Annual: leaves roundish-cordate, with a sudden 
longish acumination, repand-toothed: peduncles arranged in ter- 
minal racemes: carpels 5, twice as long as the calyx: flowers 
largish, yellow. ; 
__Neilgherries. Nundidroog. Hills about Khandalla, Flower- 
ing nearly all the year, 
