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HIBISCUS TRINERVIS. 
ments is pale, the upper rose-coloured like the corolla ; the anthers are dark crimson, 
and arranged in a pyramidal form. Style projecting, from around which arise five 
deep red, hairy, round stig-mas, all of which parts in the expanded flower produce 
a pleasing- effect. Mr. Frazer, its worthy introducer, says, in writing of it : " This, 
I consider the king of all the known Australian plants. I have seen it twenty-two 
feet and a half high. The flowers, this season, measured nine inches across ; they 
were of the most delicate pink and crimson colour, and literally covered the entire 
plant." It thrives well in a mixture of loam and peat, and cuttings will strike 
readily in sand or mould under a hand glass in heat. We would advise our friends 
to make a trial of it in the green house, for we believe it will thrive well. " The 
only objection to this plant as an object of cultivation," says Dr. Hooker, "is its 
great size." Our drawing was made from a plant which flowered in one of the 
stoves in Manchester Botanical Garden, and was sent us by our esteemed friend, 
Mr. Campbell, the director of that praiseworthy establishment, some time ago. 
The genus Hibiscus, in that highly useful publication the Hortus Britannicus, by 
Loudon, is divided into eleven sections, these embrace eighty-one species and fifteen 
varieties. The species rosa Sinensis has given rise to five varieties, all of which 
are very handsome : the species Syriacus, so well known as a hardy shrub, is the 
parent of six varieties, all of which are hardy and much esteemed ; the species 
mutahilis, noted for the change that takes place in the colour of its flowers, has 
given rise to one beautiful variety, as has also the species digitatus. For further 
particulars see vol. 1, page 77. 
The generic name is taken from hibiscos, a name given by the Greeks to mallow. 
The specific name alludes to the splendour of the plant when in bloom. 
