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TH A LA Ml FLORAE. 
Malvu arborea, folio velutino, Sloane, I. t. 135. f. 1. — Ket- 
inia amplissimo folio angulato, Plum. Spec. III. t. 160. f. 2. — 
Hibiscus clypeatus, Cav. diss. III. 166. t. 58. f. I — Swartz, 
Obs. 270. 
HAB. Red Hills near Spanish-Town, Sloane. — Sheldon 
works and Five-mile Wood, St David’s. Salt-River, St Doro- 
thy’s. 
FI . December. 
A shrub, 6-12 feet in height: branches erect, terete, hoary 
and velvety with stellated hairs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 
cordate, angulated or semitrilobate, with the lateral lobes ill- 
defined and the middle one subacuminate, sparingly toothed, 
5~7-nerved, hoary and velvety especially beneath, about 4 inches 
long, and the same broad : petiole about the length of the leaf. 
Peduncles axillary, solitary, about twice the length of the petiole, 
1 -flowered. Flowers large but not showy, of a soiled yellow 
and slightly erubescent colour. Leaflets of the involucellum 
9, 10, or 11, unequal, about an inch in length, linear, longitudin 
ally nerved, tomentose. Calyx large, externally stellato-tomen- 
tose ; lobes broad, ovate, acuminate, 5-nerved ; the upper ones 
erect ; the lower ones more or less reflected. The 2 upper 
petals erect ; the others more or less reflected ; oblong, obtuse, 
internally puberulous, externally sericeo-tomentose and ciliated. 
Column of the stamens bent down, thick, subpentagonal, con- 
nected with the base of the petals by means of strong isthmi : 
anthers yellow. Styles 5 : stigmata capitato-depressed. Cap- 
sule 5-celled, 5-valved (with the valves septiferous down the 
middle), hirsute with bright yellow hairs: seeds numerous in 
each cell, black, glabrous. 
This plant has probably received from the Negroes the name 
of Congo-Mahoe, from its resembling some plant, bearing the 
name of Mahoe, in their native country. The bark makes a 
very fine strong cord, and is employed to make the lashes of 
whips. 
Sect. 3. Cells many-seeded. Seeds icoolly. 
10. Hibiscus Bancroftianus. Dr Bancroft’s Hibis- 
cus. 
Hispid, leaves ovate, cordate obtuse crenated, pe- 
duncles axillary longer than the leaf filiform jointed 
above the middle, involucellum 9-leaved shorter than 
the calyx. 
HAB. St Ann’s. 
FT.. Throughout the year. 
A shrub, about 5 feet in height : branches erect terete, stel- 
lato-hispid, and traced with two subopposite lines of villous 
