840 XXVI. MALVACE^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) [HiUseus. 



leaves, bracteoles free linear prickly curving over the calyx. H. penta- 

 phyllus, F. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Aust. ix. 13 ; Mast, in Oliv. Flor. Trap. 

 Afr. i. 198 (not of Roxb.). 



The Pawjab, Deccan, Cokcan, and Sikdh, Stocks, &o.— 'Disteib. Affghanistan, 

 South tropical Afiica. North Australia. 



Leaves 1-3 in., oblong-lanceolate, serrate, glabrous or with numerous forked hairs; 

 petiole as long as the blade. Ptduncles solitary, axillary. Bracteoles longer than the 

 calyx. Sepals lanceolate, 6-nerved, connate below into a bell-shaped tube. Corclla 

 twice the length of the bracts, yellow with a purple centre, or all purple. Staminal- 

 *M5e half covered with anthers. CopSM^e OToid, pointed ; valves setose. Seeds 'p\ose. 



22. K. punctatus, DalzeU in Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 20 (1861); 

 annual, stellately pubescent and glutinous, leaves ovate more or less 

 3-lobed, peduncle as long as the petiole, bracteoles 8-10 linear, shorter than 

 the calyx connate at the base, petals scarcely exceeding the sepals. H. 

 laguneoides, Edgew. in Joum. Linn. Soc. vi. 199 (1862). 



SisDH, Stocks; MooLTAN, Mdge^oorth. 



A lax briiDching annual. Leaves distant, rounded ovate, acute, entire or 3-lobed, 

 lobes oblong, sinuate-dentate ; petiole If in., shorter than the. blades. Stipules minute, 

 subulate. Peduncles 1—2 in., sub-panioled, jointed at the top. Calyx bell-shaped; 

 ■feepais deltoid, lanceolate, connate below the middle. Petals rose-coloured. Capsule 

 beaked, pilose, as long as the oalyx. Seeds tubercled, black. — Yields good hemp 

 (Dahell). 



*** Bracteoles adnate to the base of the calyx. 



23. H. Sabdariffa, L. ; DG. Prodr. i. 453 ; annual, glabrous, unarmed, 

 stern purplish, leaves entire or lobed glandular beneath, peduncles very short 

 thickened at the summit, bracteoles 8-12 linear adnate to the base of the 

 calyx, sepals bristly. W.&A. Prodr. i. 52 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. L pt. 2, 158 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 1909 ; Gav. Diss. iiL p. 170 ; vi '351, t. 198, f. 1. ?H. sanguineus, 

 Grif. Not. iv. 520. 



Generally cultivated in the hotter parts of India, and in Ceylon. — Djstbib. Culti- 

 vated in the Tropics. 



Erect. Leaves polymorphous, midrib glandular beneath ; petiole 2 in. Pedunde 

 siilitary, axillaiy, shorter than the petiole. Bracteoles and calyx accrescent. Sepals 

 deltoid, acuminate, connate below the middle into a purplish fleshy cup. Corolla 2^ jn. 

 diam., yellow. Capsule ovoid, pointed, villous, shorter than the calyx. Seeds reniform, 

 sub-glabrous. — The Eozelle of India, and Red Sorrell of the W. Indies. 



Sect. 6. Abelmoschus. Calyx elongate, spathaceous, circumsciss. 

 * Bracteoles 4-6, broad, leafy. 



24. H. ficulneus, L. ; DC. Prodr. i. 448: annual, prickly, leaves pal- 

 mately 3-5-lobed lobes glabrous narrowed at the base, bracteoles 6-6 lanceo- 

 late villous fugacious, capsule ovoid. Wall. Cat. 2697 B. H. prostratus, 

 Poxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 208. H, strictus, Poxb. Hort. Beng. 62 ; Flw. Ind. iii. 206. 

 H. smiiatus, Gav. Diss, iii, t. 52, f. 2. Abelmoschus ficulneus, W. &A. Prodr. 

 i. 53 ; Wujht Ic. 1. 154 ; Thwaites Fnum. 27 iMig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 152. 

 Lagunea aculeata, Cav. Diss. iii. t. 71, f. 1 ; DC. Prodr. i. 474. 



Hotter parts of India, from the Nouth,West peotinces and Panjab to Bengal, the 

 CiKCARS, and Concan (" Native of the southern provinces of the Peninsula, naturalized 

 elsewhere, W. c6 A. l^c.")■ 



Branches shining, covered with small sharp tubercles. Young leaves rounded- 

 cordate, adult hispid, palmately Icbed with wide sinuses, lobes unequally toothed ; 

 petiole 24-4 in., as long as the leaves. Stipules subulate, lanceolate, caducous. Pe- 

 dunckshnW the length of the petioles, the upper in a leafless raceme. Sepals 5, hispid. 



