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HIBISCUS heterophyllus. 
Farious-leaved Hibiscus. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
HIBISCUS. (Cor. pet. 5. Stam. hypogyna in tubum corolliferum 
connata, indefinita: Fructus simplex multilocularis.) Cal. 5-fidus v. 
5-dentatus caliculo polyphyllo (5-30, rarissimé 3) aut multipartito cinctus, 
Anthere in apice & superficie tubi. Stylus 1; stig. 5. Caps. forma 
varia, 5-loc., 5-valv., loculis polyspermis, rard monospermis. L’rutices 
aut herba ; flores axillares & terminales. Jussieu. gen. 273. 
H. heterophyllus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis plertmque Jobatis, 
aculeato-serratis, calyce exteriore 10-phyllo, caule fruticoso aculeatis- 
simo. Venten. malm. 108. 
Hibiscus heterophyllus. Persoon. syn. 2. 254. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 
228. : 
H. grandiflorus. Salish. Parad. Lond. 22. 
_ Frutex procerior: caulis erectus, axillaritér ramosus, distantér foliosus, & 
tuberculis spind prefixis laxits echinatus. Folia alterna, semipedalia, cum 
petiolo erectiusculo articulata, divaricata, elongato-lanceolata, sepius ex lobis 
3-5 palmata, costa medid nervos alternos obliquos antrorsim aculeolatos utrin- 
que emittente: petiolus @ supino hirsutus : stipule /aterales, lanceolate, 
angust@, pubescentes, decidua. Pedunculi solitarit, axillares, 1-flori, crasst, 
teretes, erecti, petiolo breviores, é tuberculis densis stellato-setosis hispidi. 
Cal. inter. 2 pubescentid pedunculi exacté simili incrustatus, uncialis, ultra 
medium 5-fidus, urceolatus, segmentis lanceolatis extis obsolete elevato-tri- 
sulcis: exter. viridior, parim brevior, parcits nenicillato-villosus ; foliola. 
semitereti-subulata, campanato-conniventia, bast distincta. Cor. grandis, 
tenuis, ints albicans & partim purpurascens, extis pescens 3 areola discé 
atrosanguinea, ubi cum tubo stamineo commissa barbata: lac. obovate. 
Colum. staminea concolor disci, striata, subpubescens, maxima sud parte 
antheris pedicellatis onusta, 5-fida laciniis modo ramoso-divisis antheriferisque 
et caudatis : pollen primd luteum indé purpureum, € spherulis levibus granu- 
latum. Stig. lobiformia, replicata, Germ, oblato-conoideum, sericeo-hirsu- 
tum. 
A native of New-South-Wales, where it grows to be 
a considerable-sized shrub, and is manufactured by the 
natives into a rude cordage, suited to their purposes. In- 
dependent of the handsome bloom, it is curious for the 
variety in the foliage, where the footstalk sometimes holds 
an undivided one-nerved leaf, but oftener a palmate one of 
2, 3, or 5 lobes, and as many nerves, to be depressed or 
elevated from a joint at the top of the footstalk. The 
flowers are of short duration, and produced singly from 
the axils of the upper leaves, The plant was dis- 
