P lag ian lints.] 
X. MALVACEAE. 
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that level ; in autumn its naked branches and yellow foliage give a peculiar colour to the 
landscape at the higher elevation. 
2. HOHERIA, A. Cunn. 
Small trees, with alternate, petioled, excessively variable, pellucid-dotted 
foliage, and fascicled, axillary, white, hermaphrodite flowers. Peduncles jointed 
in the middle. Bracts 0. — Calyx with a broad cup-shaped tube and 5 teeth. 
Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, oblique. Stamens 5-adelphous. Ovary 5 -celled ; 
styles 5, filiform, stigmas capitate. Carpels (unknown in H. Sinclairii) 
laterally quite flat, whorled round a central axis, from which they fall away 
when ripe, indehiscent, crested at the back with a membranous wing. Seed 
pendulous. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, sharply toothed 1. II. populnea. 
Leaves broadly ovate, bluntly serrate 2. II. Sinclairii. 
1. H. populnea, A. Cunn. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 30. Tree 10-30 ft. high, 
branches hoary. Leaves glabrous, excessively variable in size, shape and 
toothing, 2-5 in. long, ovate or lanceolate, generally sharply or coarsely 
double-toothed or serrate. Flowers abundantly produced, snow-white, gla- 
brous or hoary, in. diam. Carpels produced backwards and upwards 
into a wing. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 565, 566. 
Var. a. vulgaris. Leaves ovate, with large sharp teeth. 
Var. 0. lanceolata.. Leaves linear or oblong-lanceolate, toothed or serrate. 
Var. y. angustifolia. Leaves small, linear-oblong, spinulose-toothed. Flowers small. 
II. angustifolia, Raoul, Choix, 48. t. 26. 
Var. 8. cratcegifolia. Leaves ovate, variously lobed and toothed. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. The bark affords a demul- 
cent drink, and is also used for cordage, etc. 
2. H. Sinclairii, Hook./., n. sp. Larger in all its parts than H. populnea, 
and readily distinguished by its broadly ovate, acute, obtusely serrate, cori- 
aceous, glabrous leaves. The peduncles are usually binate, and shorter than 
the petioles. It much resembles Plagianthus Lyallii, but the leaves are not 
cordate, more serrate, the peduncles jointed in the middle, stigmas capitate, 
and carpels 5. 
Northern Island : near Auckland ?, Sinclair. I find this fine species amongst some 
Auckland plants, sent without localities by Dr. Sinclair. 
3. HIBISCUS, Linn. 
Usually erect herbs, with often lobed leaves and handsome hermaphrodite 
flowers. Bracts numerous (or few) below the calyx, free or connate. — Calyx 
5-fid or 5-toothed. Petals usually cuneate, oblique, soon withering. Sta- 
minal tube long, 5 -toothed at the mouth, below which the filaments are in- 
serted. Ovary 5 -celled, with 5 spreading styles and terminal stigmas ; cells 
3- or many-ovuled. Capsule 5-valved, loculicidal. Seeds glabrous or woolly. 
A very large tropical genus, containing many very handsome plants, some, as the Ochra 
(II. esculent us), yielding an esculent fruit, others (H. cannabinus), cordage; a few are trees, 
some climb. 
1 . H. Trionum, Linn. ; — FI. N.Z.i.28. A hispid annual, often branched ; 
stem almost woody below, erect or with spreading branches, 1-2 ft. high. 
