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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. rhomhoidea, Roxb., is at all distinct. The species however, described in De Candolle, which our 
friend Dr. Wight has met Ayith in the neighbourhood of Madras, has no beaks to the carpels. — Sida humilis, 
Willd., S. cord folia, L. (according to Wallich), and S. popul folia, Lam., are communicated by Mr. Vachell 
and Mr. MiUett ; and Gossypium arhoreum, from the gardens of Macao. 
Ord. X. BOMBACE^. Kunth. 
1. Helicteres angustifolia ; foliis anguste oblongis obtusis mucronatis integerrimis subtus 
stellatim pubescentibus pannosis supra viridibus glabriusculis vel pilis stellatis subscabris, 
pedunculis terminalibus axillaribusque binis ternisve paucifloris, carpellis ellipsoideis hispido- 
villosissimis. — Wall. Cat. n. 1187. 
a. foliis supra glaberrimis. — H. angustifolia. Linn. — Z)e Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 476. — 
Lour, (non Wall.) — H. virgata. Wall. List of East India Plants, h. 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 Linnaeus, 
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 Linnaeus’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. 47C; “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. IVRllett, gathered about Macao : whilst 
the true H. angustifolia, these gentlemen find on Lappas Island. 
Ord. XL BYTTNERIACE.®:. Brown. 
1. Sterculia lanceolata ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtuse subacuminatis integerrimis 
glabris, paniculis axillaribus, laciniis calycinis oblongis extus paniculaeque rainulis pubescenti- 
bus, carpellis oblongis oligospermis.^ — Cav. Diss. 5. p. 287. t. 144. f. 1. — Lindl. 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 nobilis ; foliis ovato-oblongis integris glabris, calycis laciniis linearibus apice 
coberentibus, carpellis ovatis mucronatis 1-2-spermis. De Cand. — Smith in Rees'' Cycl. — 
S. monosperma. Vent. Malm. t. 91. — S. Balanghas. Ait. — Southwellia nobilis. Salisb. 
Of this we have only seen the panicles of flowers. 
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