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centre, glabrous. Capsule oblong, pointed, hispid, becoming sub- 
glabrous, 1 to 3 in. long. Seeds reniform, striate, glabrous, musky. 
Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 342 (excl. syu. H. sagittifolius, Kurz.) ; 
DC. Prod. i. 452 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 202 ; Griff. Not. iv. 521. Abelmos- 
chus motckatus, Mamch ; W. & A. Prod. i. 53 ; Wight Tc. t. 399 ; Wall. 
Cat. 1915, F, G, H, 1, K, L; Thwaites Enum. 27; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 
i. pt. 2, 151. R. fiavescena t Cav. Diss. iii. t. 70, f. 2 ; DC. I.e. 454. 
H. spathaceus, Wall. Cat. K. IT. ricinifoiius, Wall. Cat. 1915. Bamia 
chinensis, Wall. Cat. 1610? Hibiscus pse?«Zo-a&<??7nosc/iKs, Bl. Bijdr. 
70. S. Icmgifolius, Willd. Spec. iii. 827; DC. Prod. i. 450. Bamia 
multiformis and betulifolm, Wall. Cat. 1917 and 1918. 
In all the Provinces; cultivated or naturalised. Distrib. the 
tropics generally. 
2. H. surattensis, Linn. Spec. 979. A weak strangling under- 
shrub ; the branches, petioles and peduncles with small recurved pric- 
kles and a few soft spreading pal o hairs. Leaves palmately 8 to 5-partite, 
rarely ovate, sub-entire, serrate, sparsely pilose ; length and breadth 
1*5 to 3 in. ; petiole slightly longer than the blade. Stipules broadly 
ear-shaped. Flowers 2 to 2'5 in. long, solitary, axillary, corolla yellow 
with dark centre ; bracts of involucre 10 to 12, linear with spathulate 
apices. Capsules membranous, the individual carpels with 3 bold 
aculeate nerves and a long terminal poiut. Seeds with long straight 
brittle yellowish hairs. Mast, in Hook. til. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 334 ; Miq. 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 161 ; Bl. Bijdr. 68; DC. Prodr. i. 449; W. & A. 
Prodr. i. 48 ; Roxb. Fl lud. iii. 205 ; Wight Ic. t. 197 ; Cav. Diss. iii. 
t. 53, I I ; Thwaites Enum. 2b" ; Wall. Cat. 1893, 1, 2, 3, D, E, F, G ; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 20 ; Mast, in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr. i. 201 ; Miq. 
Fl Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 161. H.furcatus, Wall. Cat. 1896 C, not of Roxb. 
Malacca, Perak, and probably in the other Provinces. Distrib. 
The tropics generally. 
This has a decumbent or even climbing habit. 
3. H. macrophyllus, Roxb. Hort. Bong. 51. A large shrub or 
small tree, all parts more or less covered with pale soft minute velvetty 
tonieutum; the young branches, petioles, pedicels, bracteoles and calyx 
bearing, in addition, numerous more or less deciduous tufts of long 
spreading stiff tawny hairs. Leaves large, on long petioles, cordate- 
orbicular to reniform, the apex shortly sharply and abruptly aenminute, 
the edges entire; palmately 7 to 9-nerved ; length and breadth 7 to 12 
in. ; petiole usually longer than the blade. Stipules oblong, convolute, 
liispid-tomentose, 3 to 4 in. long. Flowers iu terminal cymes, pedicels 
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