Byttneriacea.] 



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2. Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis. Linn. 



The specimens in Capt. Beechey's Collection, and those from Mr. Millett, have double flowers. 

 1. Sida rhombifolia ; Linn. 



The specimen in the Collection is in no way different from those from the New World, nor does it appear 

 that S. rhomboidca, Eoxb., is at all distinct. The species however, described in De Candolle, which our 

 friend Dr. Wight has met with in the neighbourhood of Madras, has no beaks to the carpels. — Sida humilis, 

 Willd., S. cord/folia, L. (according- to Wallich), and S. populifolia, Lam., are communicated by Mr. Vachell 

 and Mr. Millett ; and Gossypium arboreuin, from the gardens of Macao. 



Ord. X. BOMBACE^E. Kunth. 

 1. Helicteres angustifolia ; foliis anguste oblongis obtusis mueronatis integerrimis subtus 

 stellatim pubescentibus pannosis supra viridibus glabriusculis vel pilis stellatis subscabris, 

 pedunculis terminalibus axillaribusque binis ternisve paucifforis, carpellis ellipsoideis hispido- 

 villosissimis. — Wall. Cat. n. 1187. 



«. foliis supra glaberrimis. — H. angustifolia. Linn. — De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 476. — 

 Lour, (non Wall.) — H. virgata. Wall. List of East India Plants, n. 1181. 

 /3. foliis supra scabriusculis. 



Of this we have been obliged to resort to more perfect specimens than those in the Collection, the first 

 variety only being gathered, and that destitute of fruit. This is assuredly the true H. angustifolia of Linnseus, 

 of which Willdenow says " folia obtusiuscula." It appears also to be that intended by Loureiro, and is the 

 only narrow-leaved species we have received from Macao. But then it can scarcely be the plant of Lamarck, 

 Encycl. Meth. 3. p. 89, of which he says " feuilles lanceolees ou etroites-lanceolees, saliciformes ;" and of 

 which the description seems to be made up partly from Linnseus's character, and partly from the branchlets 

 the Author says he obtained from Sonnerat. Again Sonnerat's and Lamarck's plant seems to be H. lan- 

 ceolata, De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 476; "species distinctissima :" and with it H. angustifolia, Wallich's 

 List, n. 1180, is identical, as also what Colebrooke named H. spicata to Sir James Smith, according to a 

 specimen communicated by Sir James to Dr. Hooker. But this last must not be confounded with what 

 stands as H. spicata of Colebrooke, in Wallich's List, n. 1182, and is described by Mr. G. Don in his ed. of 

 Miller's Dictionary, p. 507, which precisely accords with specimens we have received from Canton, and which 

 agree so well with the description given by Loureiro of his H. hirsuta, that we cannot consider them as 

 any way distinct. This latter we possess from Mr. Vachell and Mr. Millett, gathered about Macao : whilst 

 the true H. angustifolia, these gentlemen find on Lappas Island. 



Ord. XI. BYTTNERIACEyE. Brown. 



1. Sterculia lanceolata ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtuse subacuminatis integerrimis 

 glabris, paniculis axillaribus, laciniis calycinis oblongis extus paniculaeque ramulis pubescenti- 

 bus, carpellis oblongis oligospermis. — Cav. Diss. 5. p. 287. t. Ml. / 1- — Liudl. in Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1296. 



In our plants, as well those from Messrs. Lay and Collie as others from Mr. Vachell and Mr. Millett, the 

 flowers are in small lax panicles, and not in simple racemes. 



2. Sterculia nobi/is ; foliis ovato-oblongis integris glabris, calycis laciniis linearibus apice 

 coherentibus, carpellis ovatis mueronatis 1-2-spermis. De Cand. — Smith in Bees' Cycl. — 

 S. monosperma. Vent. Malm. t. 91. — S. Balanglias. Ait. — Soutliwellia nobilis. Salisb. 



Of this we have only seen the panicles of flowers. 



