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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Hibiscus ttliaceus. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 694. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Recorded also by Achilles Richard from Port Doreh. 
Hibiscus ficulneus. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 695. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie, 
Hibiscus Abelmoschus. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 696. 
Fly-River ; D’Albertis. Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Hibiscus Notho-Manihot. 
P. V, M. Pragm. Pliytogr. Austr. v. 57. 
Port Moresby; Goldie. 
The Papuan plant dilFers slightly from that of Queensland in the 
spathaceous not bilabiate coherence of the sepals. The ripe capsule is 
about 1 J inch long, ovata, 5-angular, soft-hairy, narrowly contracted at 
the summit; seeds numerous, oblique 'ovate-globular, short-downy. 
To this species is perhaps referable H. angulosus (Masters in J. 
Hookei*’s Flora of British India, 341 ; Abelmoschus angulosus, Wallich 
in Wight et Arnott’s Prodr, FI. Penins. Ind. Orient. 63). The Indian 
plant according to Wight’s illustration 951 is far more hispid, but 
seems to agree with ours in other respects. Thwaites (Enum. Plant. 
Zeil. 26) distinguishes varieties with yellow and purple petals. The real 
Hibiscus Manihot (L. Sp. 696) has longer and less acuminated lobes of 
the leaves, with lesser and larger indentations and deflexed pedicels ; but 
the value of all these characteristics has by reiterated examination of 
copious specimens again to be tested. Roxburgh (Flora Indica, iii. 
212) describes the capsules of H. Manihot (his H. pentaphyllus) as 
6-seeded, but probably had 5-seeded fruit-cells in view. 
Hibiscus vitifolius. 
Linne, Spec. Plant. 696. 
Port Moresby ; Goldie. 
Hibiscus D’Albertisii. 
(Sect. Ketmia.) 
Woody, minutely star-hairy; leaves large^ cordate-roundish^ without 
lobes and teeth ; stipules broad, early deciduous ; pedicels solitary, much 
