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HIBISCUS pheeniceus. 
Small purple-flowered Hibiscus. 
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Matvacem. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. III. Stamina inde- 
finita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. 
HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. 
H. pheeniceus, foliis ovatis acuminatis, serratis, inferioribus subcordatis tri- 
cuspidatis, pedunculis articulatis, seminibus lanatis. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 
813. 
Hibiscus pheeniceus. Linn. suppl. 310. Jacq. hort. vindob. 3. 11. t. 14. 
Cavan. diss. 3. 157. t. 67. f.2. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 225. 
Frutex ex radice ramosé caulem promit erectum teretem lignosum, calami 
et majore crassilie, leucophceum, juniorem virentem, glabrum, a 3 ud 6 pedes 
altum, lentum, tandém ex longitudine debilem: rami virgati, teretes, virides, viz 
notabili asperitate donantur. (Jacq, 1. c.) | Fol. sparsa, distantia, ovato- 
acuminata, obscuré virentia hirtiuscula, longiora subsesquiuncialia, crenato- 
serrata, faene inequaliter magis minusve versus inferiora triloba Jacq.) 
petioli subunciales, villosi, prope laminam cum genit crassiore flexi. Pedunculi 
azillares, solitarii, 1-flori, sublongiores foliis, pilis raris hispidiuscult, patuli, 
teretes, biunciales v. ultra, stricti, supra medium at longé infra florem nudo- 
articulati, indéque crassiores. Cal. exterior 9-phyllus, radiato-patens, equalis 
interiori, obscuré virens, asperiusculus, foliolis angustisstmis, lineari-subu- 
latis ; interior pallidior, membranaceus, ultra medium 5-fidus, campanulatus, 
villoso-ciliolatus, segmentis lanceolatis cuspidatis 3-nerviis. Cor. punicea, ex= 
planato-patens, sesquiunciam transversa, Pore calycem ; pet. oblongo- 
cuneata, apice rotunda v. subretusa, basi in tubum obtegentem germen connata. 
Germ. tectum, ovatum, pallidé virens, villosum. . Tubus stamineus,: declina- 
tus, corolla concolor, pené de basi ramuloso-antheriferus ; anth. rotunda, 
vitelline vel aurantiace. Styli 5, punicei, filiformes, @equales corolle, tan- 
dém reflectendi ut stigmata admoveantur antheris pro polline excipiendo: stig. 
capitata. ' . 
Pheeniceus and hirtus are now generally included in the 
same species as varieties. We have however omitted the 
synonymy of the latter, as we have not had an opportunity of 
comparing the two in the living plant. Jacquin tells us 
that he brought the seed of the specimen he treats of, in the 
place we have cited, from South America, without saying 
that it was indigenous of that country. By every one else 
the species is spoken of as a native of the East Indies. 
Requires to be kept in the stove, where it will produce a 
succession of bloom nearly the summer through. Intro- 
duced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1796, 
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