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MALYACEJE. 
[ JJrena. 
Corolla J—f in. long. Carpels exceeding the bracteol.es, armed all over 
the back with hard prickles. U. tricuspis, Cav. Diss. t. 183, fig. 1. 
U. Sieberi, Colla, Horl. Rip. t. 39. 
Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Seychelles, common on borders of forests, from the 
sea-level to the hill-tops. Cosmopolitan in tropics. U. sinuata , Linn. ( TJ. multijida , 
Cav. Diss. t. 184, fig. 2), is a variety -with leaves lobed below the middle, and each 
lobe again pinnatifid. Herbe a paniers. 
5. PA V ONI A, Cav. 
Epicalyx of 8-10 linear bracteoles. Calyx 5-lobed. Staminal 
column not bearing anthers at the top. Ovary 5-celled ; ovules solitary, 
erect; styles 10 ; stigmas capitate. Carpels separating from the axis 
when mature, indehiscent, not muricated. — Herbs or shrubs, with 
lobed leaves and small or middle-sized flowers, various in colour. 
Distkxb. Species 60, mostly American. 
1. P. urens, Cav. Diss. iii. t. 4Q,fig. 1. A robust biennial, with stems 
clothed densely with spreading hairs. Leaves long-petioled, densely 
pilose on both surfaces, 3-4 in. broad, palmately many-lobed ; lobes in- 
cised. Flowers in dense fascicles, subsessile in the axils of the leaves. 
Calyx densely hispid. Corolla pinkish, 1 in. long. Carpels 5, each with 
3 retrorsely ciliated awns. Jacg. Ic. t. 552. 
Reported by De Candolle and others from Mauritius, but unknown to Bojer and 
Ayres. "We possess wild Bourbon specimens, and have therefore retained it. Bojer’s 
plant so called is Malachra capitata. 
* P. zeylanica, Willd. (Hibiscus zeylanicus, Linn.), widely spread in 
the tropics of old world, is naturalised on the lie aux Tonneliers. It is 
a low densely viscoso-pilose biennial, with rigid branches, small long- 
petioled 3-5-lobed leaves, small pinkish corolla, an epicalyx of 8-10 
linear gland- ciliated bracteoles and 5 small hard renifortn muticous 
carpels. 
6. HIBISCUS, Linn. 
Bracteoles 5 or more, free or connate. Calyx 5-fid, or in § Abel- 
moschus spathaceous, toothed at the top only, and often slit off at the 
base when the flower opens. Ovary 5- or in § Paritium incom- 
pletely 10-celled ; ovules 3 or more in a cell ; styles 5 ; stigmas capitate. 
Staminal column only toothed at the top. Ripe carpels dehiscing locu- 
lici dally, not breaking away from the axis. Seeds naked or hairy. — 
Herbs or trees, with broad often lobed leaves and large showy flowers. 
Distbib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. Species 150, many American. 
Section 1. Euhibiscus. Calyx 5-cleft, persistent. Bracteoles 
free or connate at the base only. Stems not prickly. 
Shrubby, glabrous. 
Leaves entire or toothed, not lobed 1. H. liliifloeus. 
Leaves cordate, deeply lobed 2. H. columnaris. 
