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eye, are of a bright buff, surrounded by a deep and red-headed ring of dark maroon colour. This beautiful plant 
is anative of Madagascar, whence it was introduced in 1837, and first raised from seed in the Birmingham Botanic 
Garden, the seeds having been brought home by some of the Missionaries. A very beautiful garden variety, figured 
in the ‘“‘ Botanical Register ” for 1844, t. 28, has been raised between Hl. Cameroni and H. speciosus. It flowered 
for the first time in 1843. 
10.—HIBISCUS WRAY Lindl. MRS. WRAY’S HIBISCUS. 
Encravinc.— Bot. Reg., 1840, t. 69. segments rounded, subcrenate. Peduncles axillary, two-flowered, 
Speciric Cuaracter.—Stem shrubby, covered with tomentum. | longer than the leaves. Involucel fifteen-toothed. Segments of the 
Leaves palmate, cordate, woolly ; lobes obovate, pinnatifidly cut; | stigma linear, revolute. 
Description, &c.—A most beautiful plant with large lilac flowers, which was raised from Swan River seeds, 
by Mrs. Wray, of Cheltenham. It is a greenhouse shrub of very easy cultivation, which grows so luxuriantly that 
it will attain the height of eight or ten feet in one season, if planted in a conservatory. It continues in flower nearly 
all the year. 
11.—HIBISCUS LILACINUS Lindl. THE LILAC HIBISCUS. 
Eneravines.—Bot. Reg., t. 2009; and our fig. 3, in Pl. 6. parted; segments subulate. Segments of the calyx acuminate, three- 
Sreciric Cuaracter.—Glabrous. Leaves entire, or three-parted | ribbed, twice as long as the tube of the flower. Corolla funnel-shaped, 
into linear or trifid lobes; segments linear-lanceolate, acuminate, | much longer than the calyx, club-shaped, not divided. 
sometimes pinnatifid and coarsely toothed. Involucel obsolete, or six- 
Description, &c.—This is another species from the Swan River, the seeds of which were sent home by 
Sir James Stirling, and raised by Robert Mangles, Esq., in the year 1840. The flowers are extremely beautiful, 
and very unlike most of the half-hardy kinds of Hibiscus. The plant has hitherto been kept in a greenhouse, 
but it will probably prove sufficiently hardy to stand in the open ground during the summer. 

OTHER KINDS OF HIBISCUS. 
There are several other kinds of greenhouse Hibiscus, but those that have been described are the most 
ornamental. 
GENUS IV. 
SIDA Cav. THE SIDA. 
Lyn. Syst. MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, 
Generic Cuaracter.—Calyx naked, five-cleft, usually angular. Style multifid at the apex. Carpels capsular, five to thirty, in a whorl 

around the central axis, more or less connected together, one-celled, one-seeded, mutic or awned at the apex. (G, Don.) 

Description, &c.—The plants belonging to this genus have generally small flowers only partially opened. 
They are all natives of hot countries, but most of them will flower in a greenhouse almost as well as in a stove ; 
the difference being, that the flower becomes paler and more expanded when exposed to the influence of heat. 
The kinds generally found in British gardens are, S. grandifolia, which has small dark orange flowers, when kept 
in a greenhouse, but the flowers of which become much larger and yellow when kept in a stove; S. rosea, a native 
of Brazil, which has small globe-shaped flowers of a brilliant scarlet; S. globiflora, the flowers of which are of 
the same shape as those of S. rosea, but of a cream colour; and S. in@qualis, the flowers of which are 
campanulate, and of a beautiful cream-colour. 








