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capsule spherical, depressed, coriaceous, indehiscent. The com- 

 mon Bendy tree. Syn. Hibiscus populneus, Linn. ; Malvaviscus 

 populneus, Gaertn, t. 1 35. The wood is fine-grained and tough ; 

 makes good gun-stocks, wheels, and boat timbers. 



2. T Lampas, Dalz. Mss. — Shrubby; leaves cordate 3-lobed, 

 sub-glabrous, lobes spreading, acuminate; peduncles axillary, three- 

 flowered ; calyx truncated with five minute teeth ; flower as in the 

 preceding ; capsule ovoid indehiscent. Common in the Concan and 

 Ghauts ; 3 to 4 feet high. Syn. Hibiscus lampas, Cav. ; Paritium 

 gangeticum, G. Don ; Wight's Ic. without number. Native name 

 " Ran Bendy." 



5. PARITIUM, Adr. Juss. 



1. P TiTiACEUM, Adr. Juss. in. St. Hil. Flor Bras. 1, 198.— A 

 tree ; leaves roundish cordate, with a sudden acumination, crenula- 

 ted or entire, underside hoary ; flowers like the Bendy, involucel 

 10-lobed; capsule 5-celled 5-valved. At Rutnagheny and banks 

 of the Tericol river, Warree country. Syn. Hibiscus tihacens, 

 Linn. ; Wight Ic. t. 7. 



6. ABELMOSCHUS, Med. 



1 . A Tbtraphyllus, Graham in Cat. Bomb. PI, p 1 4. — A large, 

 annual erect hairy plant ; leaves long-petioled, palmate, variously 

 lobed and toothed ; flowers yellow, with a dark-purple bottom ; 

 involucel 4-leaved ; capsule hairy. Island of Caranjah and the 

 Meera hills ; abundant. Syn. Iiibiscus tetraphyllus, Roxb. Fl 

 Ind. iii, p211. 



2. A Warreensis, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p. 123. — 

 Stem rough, with erect bristles ; leaves broadly cordate acuminate, 

 coarsely crenate, sprinkled with stiff" hairs on both sides ; involucre 

 as in the preceding, but not falling off as in that species ; flowers 

 fascicled terminal, or on short axillary branches. In the Warree 

 country ; flowers and fruit in January. 



7. HIBISCUS, Linn. 



1. H Furcatus, Roxb. — Climbing, all rough with numerous 

 recurved prickles ; stipules oblong or lanceolate ; leaves palmately 

 3 to 5-lobed, densely pubesceiit beneath, nerves beneath prickly ; 

 leaves of involucel about 10, hnear incurved, with an oblong fohaceous 

 appendage at their back about the middle. DC. Prod. 1, 449. 

 Common on the Ghauts. 



2. Vesicarius, Cav. — Annual, with hairy stems, 6-cleft leaves, 

 and inflated membranaceous calyx. Common during the rains, 

 chiefly on black soils. Syn. H trionum ? 



