rising upwards, kidney-shaped, testa crustaceous, naked or scaly, or 
sometimes woolly. Embryo curved in the direction of the seed, 
within a very small mucilaginous albumen; cotyledons leafy, plicately 
involute upon each other, radicle inferior. 
Description of the Species, Hibiscus Cameronii. Trunk 
erect; branches sub-erect, green, closely villous. Leaves (four inches 
long, five inches in their greatest breadth) petiolate, sub-peltate, sca¬ 
brous, wrinkled, undulate, paler below, three-five-nerved, deeply three- 
lobed, the lateral lobes having each a shorter and more rounded 
subsidiary lobe at its base; petioles as long as the leaves, spreading 
wide, channelled above, villous. Peduncles axillary, solitary, nearly 
as long as the leaves, villous, articulated towards the apex. Involu- 
CELLUM minute, of about ten leaves. Calyx five-cleft, villous on the 
outside, inflated at the base, sharply angled, ten-nerved, segments 
deltoid, acute, shining within, but having short spreading glandular 
pubescence scattered over the surface. Corolla large and hand¬ 
some; tube very short, glabrous, and shining; limb spreading wide, 
and revolute, glanduloso-pubescent on the outside, glabrous within, 
except at the base, where there are a few short hairs; segments 
obJiquely-obovate, strongly marked with many nerves, which are 
branched only towards their apices, yellow for a small space at the 
base, the upper half of the segments being partially, and unequally, 
tinged with red, each handsomely marked in the throat with a large 
deep-purple spot. Sheath of filaments glabrous, purple, furrowed, 
scarcely so long as the corolla. Anthers yellow. Stigmata diver¬ 
ging immediately above the tube of the filaments, yellow. Styles 
cohering except at their apices, covered with yellowish-green tomen- 
tum at the base, glabrous above. Germen conical, with similar 
tomentum. Ovules numerous, in tw'o rows in the cells, ovate. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. The extensive genus 
Hibiscus furnishes many ornamental plants, but generally requiring 
stove heat in cultivation, as a large proportion are from low latitudes. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. Introduced in 1837, 
by the Rev. J. A. James, who presented to the Botanic Garden, at 
Birmingham, seeds, gathered by the Missionaries at Madagascar. It 
requires to be kept in the stove. It flowered freely in the garden of 
the Caledonian Horticultural Society when of small size, but has 
never produced fruit, the upper part of the peduncle always separating 
at the joint. 
Derivation of the Names. 
Hibiscus, from IjSLaKog, the name given by Dioscorides to a plant of this family, 
supposed Altliasa. Cameronii, in honour of the excellent Superintendant 
of the Birmingham Botanic Garden. 
Synonyme. 
Hibiscus Cameronii. Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, February, 1841. Bot. 
Mag. 3936. Grah, 
