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FLORA OF ADEN. 
alternating with the petals ; ovules 3 or more in each cell. Styles 5, 
spreading, connate below ; stigma capitate or spathulate. 
Capsule loculicidally 5-valved, sometimes 10-celled through false 
dissepiments. Seeds numerous, reniform, suhglobose, rarely obovoid,. 
glabrous, tomentose or woolly. 
Species about 150. 
Distribution : — Chiefly in the tropical region of both hemispheres. 
Involucral bracts 6, pedicel jointed above the middle, flowers 
pink or white 1. H. micranthus. 
Involucral bracts 8—10, pedicel jointed near the apex, 
flowers yellow e • • • • » • * 2.H. Welshii. 
1 , Hibiscus micranthus L. Mant. p. 308 ; DC. Prodr. I, 453 
Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. V, Suppl. p. 8 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. I, 335 ; 
Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. I, 205. 
Hibiscus rigidus L. f. Suppl. p. 310. 
Hibiscus clandestinus Cay. 1c. I, 1, t. 2. 
Hibiscus ovalifolius Yahl Symb. I, 50. 
Hibiscus intermedius Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, n. 2211. 
Hibiscus parvifolius Hochst. ibid. 
Hibiscus versicolor Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. p. 311. 
Urena ovalifolia Forsk. FI. Aeg.-Arab. p. 124. 
Arabia name Osaru. 
Description : — An undershrub, with long, rod-like, spreading branches,, 
thinly covered with appressed, stellate, bristle-like hairs. Leaves 1-2 
inches long, more or less scabrid and hairy, ovate, acute or obtuse, 
serrate, sometimes cordate ; stipules \ inch long, subulate, hairy. 
Pedicels longer than the petioles, reaching 1£ inches, slender, jointed 
above the middle. Involucral bracts 6, filiform, hairy, longer or shorter 
than the calyx. Calyx short, deeply divided ; lobes lanceolate, hairy. 
Corolla small, pink or pink and white, stellately hairy outside. Stamens 
in tufts on the staminal tube. 
Capsules £- t | inch in diameter, globose. Seeds reniform, cottony. 
Flowers : — March and April (Defl.) ; March (Perry). 
Locality : — Near the old cemetery (Anders.) ; near Maala (Schweinf.)j, 
on the top of the Shum Shum Bange (Busse) ; near the flagstaff on 
the Shum Shum Bange (Defl .) ; without locality (Birdw., Perry) . 
Distribution : — Tropical Africa, S. Arabia, India, Ceylon. 
Note: — Defiers says that the flowers are purplish when they open 
in the morning and become white in the afternoon. 
