MALVACEAE. 1£9 



8. Abutilon tubulosum, Hook, 



Abutilon tubulosum, Hook, in Mitch. Jour. Trop. Austral, p. 368, adn. 



Hab. Hunter's River, New South Wales. (A fragment only was 

 gathered.) 



7. URENA, Linn. 



1. Urena lob ata ? Linn, & 



Var. rhombifolia : foliis basi 3-5-nerviis Tiaud cordatis ovato-rhombeis 

 oblongisve integris subtus cano-tomentosis ; fructu longiusade echinato. 



Urena monopetala, Lour. Fl. Coch. ed. Willd. 2, p. 508 ? 



Var. scabriuscula : foliis subrohindis 7-9-nerviis acutiuscule 3-5-lobatis 

 scabriusculis subtus albo-tomentosis, nervis cum petiolo ramisque hir- 

 sutis; iitvolucelli hispidi segmentis linearibus calycern superantibus ; 

 fructu longiuscule echinato. 



Urena scabriuscula, DC. Prodr. 1, p. 441; Wight & Arn. Prodr. Ind. Or. 1, p. 46. 

 U lobata, /3. tomentosa, Walp. Bel. Meyen. p. 304. 

 U. lobata, y. Hook. f. Fl. Nigrit. p. 226. 



Hab. Rio Janeiro, "probably introduced." Tahiti. Tongatabu. 



Samoan or Navigators' Islands. Feejee Islands. — Yar. rhombifolia, 



Ovolau, Feejee Islands. — Yar. scabriuscula, Mountains near Banos, 



Luzon. (Philippine Islands, Cuming, No. 469.) 



Of this widely spread species various forms were collected, princi- 

 pally with rounded, cordate or ovate-subcordate, and scarcely lobed 

 leaves, which are either green both sides, and more or less pubescent 

 underneath, or with the lower surface canescently velvety-tomentose. 

 In all of them the segments of the involucel are lanceolate and about 

 the length of the calyx, and the fruit is armed with short glochidate 



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