lieyiesia.] xxvr. malvace^. (Maxwell T. Masters.) 345 



13. TKESPESXA, Corr. 



Tall trees or shrubs. Leaves entire or lobed. Inflorescence axillary. 

 Bradeoks 6-8, arising from the thickened end of the peduncle, deciduous. 

 Galyx truncate, minutely 5-toothed or 5-parted. Corolla convolute. Staminal- 

 tuhe 5-toothed at the apex. Ovari/ 4-5-celled ; style club-shaped, 6-furrowed, 

 entire or 5-toothed • ovules few in each cell. Capsule loculioidal or scarcely 

 dehiscent. Seeds glabrous or tomentose; cotyledons conduplicate, black- 

 dotted.— A genus of few species, natives of tropical Asia, Madagascar, and 

 the islands of the Pacific. 



1- T. Ziampas, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. PI. 19; subarboreous, herbaceous 

 portions downy, leaves palmately lobed. Hibiscus Lampas, Cav. Diss. iii. 

 154, t. 56, f. 2 ; DC. Prodr. i. 447 ; Moxb. PI. Ind. iii. 197 ; Wight Ic. t. 5 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. i. 48 ; Wall. Cat. 1889, 1 to 4 & E to I. Thwaites Enum. 26 ; 

 Mj, Fl. Ind. Pat. i. pt. 2, 153. H. tetralocularis, Roocb. PI. Ind. iii. 198. 

 Azanza Lanipas, Alefdd in Pol Zdt. 1861, 297. H. gangeticus, Eoxb. Ic. 

 imd. and Heyne in Herb. Paritium gangeticum, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 485. . 



Teopioal Himalaya, alt. 1—4000 ft., from Kumaon eastwards ; Bensal, the Westekn 

 Pehinshla, Biema, and Ceylon. — ^Disteie. Java, East Tropical Africa. 



Arborescent, not prickly. Leaves 5 in. dian;,, cordate, 3-lobed, lobes spreading, acu- 

 minate, sparingly stellate, pilose above, tomentose beneath, midrib ■with a glandular 

 jpore at the base beneath ; petioles 2^ in., downy. Stipules subulate. Peduncles axil- 

 lary or terminal, pauicled, 3-flowered. Bracteoles 4^, subulate, deciduous. Calyx of 

 5 subulate sepals connate below the middle. Corolla oampanulate, yellow with a 

 crimson centre. Capsule ovoid, pointed, villous, 5- rarely 4r-valved, valves hispid gla- 

 bresoent. Seeds glabrescent. 



"' 2. T. populnea, Corr. in Ann. Mus. ix. p. 290 ; arboreous, herbaceous 

 portions covered with peltate scales, leaves entire ovate acute or acuminate. 

 Cav. Diss. iii. 152, t. 66, f. 1; DC. Prodr. i. 456; PT. cfc A. Prodr. i. 64; 

 Wight Ic. t. 8; Thwaites Enum. 27 ; Beddome Fl. Sylvat. t. 63; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. PI. 18; Wall. Cat. 1888, 1, 2, & C to H. Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. i. pt..2, 

 150. Hibiscus populneus, L. ; Poodi. Sort. Beng. 61 ; Phr. Ind. iii. 190. 

 H. populneoides, Roaib: I.e. Malvaviscus populneus, Goertn. Frvid. ii. 253, 

 1. 135. Azanza acuminata, Alefdd Boi. Zeit. 1861, 299. — Rheede Hort. Mai. 

 i. 29. 



Tropical shores of Bengal, Ceylok, and both Pekinsulas. — Distkib. Tropical Asia, 

 the Pacific islands, and Africa. 



A small tree. Leaves 3 in. diam., cordate, roundish, acuminate, quite entire, 5-7- 

 nerved, with a glandular pore beneath between the nerves ; petiole 2^ in. Pedanele 

 axillary, shorter than the petiole. Sraeteoles obsolete or 5, oblong-lanceolate, deci- 

 duous, as long as the cup-shaped 5-toothed calyx. Corolla 2-3 in. diam. Stamina^- 

 tube toothed at the top ; filaments ascending. Capsule IJ in., oblong, depressed, scaly, 

 ultimately glabrescent. Seeds pilose or powdery on the surface. — The characters .issigned 

 by Boxburgh to Hiiiscus populneoides are not sufBqiept, as on the same specimen acute 

 and acuminate, glandular and ^landless leaves may be seen, and the characters of the 

 capsule appear equally invalid. Roxburgh describes the integument of the capsiile 

 in H. populneoides as double, " the exterior one, which is fragile and composed of five 

 valves, opens from the apex spontaneously when ripe, exposing the inner lamina, wliicb 

 is remarkably strong, tough, reticulated with fibres and not opening without consider- 

 able force;" ■where.a.a in S. populneus the integument "is single, and can be easily 

 broken by the pressure of the thamb and finger." 



