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\ 10cm. longa. P. macrophyllum 



!Calyculus calyce 2-3 plo (vulgo duplo) breviores. Folia supra viri- 

 dissima lucida, subtus juventnte tomentosa adulta valde venosa. 

 P. abutiloides 

 Calj-culus calyce 2-4 plo (vulg"o 3-4 plo) breviores. Folia subtus 

 juventnte adpresse pubescentia, venis modestis 8 



/Folia ramorum floriferorum cordata vel cordato-ovata. 



.i P. tilitefo/ium 



8-jFolia adpressissime ciliata, ramorum floriferorum distincte dimor- 

 pha, alia cordata, alia elongata plus minus angnlata. 



P. Hlics/olium var . heterophyllum 



1) Paritium abutiloides G. Don, Gen. Hist. Dichl. PI. I 485 (1831). 

 Syn. Malva arborea maritima etc. Sloan, Nat. Hist. Jamaica 215 t. 



135 fig-. 4 (1707). 

 Hibiscus abutiloides Willdenow, Enmn. PI. Hort. Berol. 736 



(1809). 

 Hibisais arboreus Desvaux in Hamilton, Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occid. 



49 (1825). 

 Paritium tiliaceum A. St. Hilaire, Fl. Brasil. Merid. I, 256 



(1827) ; Grisebach, Fl, Brit. West. Ind. Isl. 86 (1864) ; etc. 

 Hibiscus tiliaceus (non L.) Chapman, Fl. South. Unit. States 58 

 (1872) ; etc. 

 Hab. in Florida, Mexico, Equador, India occid., Columbia, et Bra- 

 silia . 

 This American species differs from Hibiscus tiliaceus of Old World 

 with its dark green shinning", more venose leaves, deeper and longer 

 lobes of outer calyx, and shorter peduncles. 



2) Paritium boninense Nakai, comb. nov. 



Syn. Hibiscus boninensis Nakai in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVIII, 311 



(1914). 

 Hab. in Bonin. 



3) Paritium elatum G. Don, Gen. Hist. Dich. PI. I, 485 (1831). 

 Syn. Malva arborea, foliis rotundis, cortice in /uiies dtutili ', flore tniniato 



