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HIBISCUS pedunculatus. 
Long-stalked. Cape Hibiscus. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Matvacem. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. ITI. Stamina inde- 
finita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. 
HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. 
oe Bs ela te a nae et ied a 
H. pedunculatus, foliis 5-3-lobisve, obtusis crenatis hirsutis, pedunculis axil- 
laribus foliis duplo longioribus, corolla campanulata,. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 
827. ; 
Hibiscus pedunculatus. Linn. suppl. 309. Thunb. prod. 118. Cavan. diss. 
3. 163. t. 66.f. 2. 
Frutex bipedalis, erectus, ramis teretibus viridibus hirtins villosis. Folia 
alterna, distantia, obscure viridia, ex pilis subcompositis hirsuta, subcordato- 
rotunda, triloba (inferiora quingueloba Thunb.), dentata, sesquiunciam plis 
minis lata, firmula, supra immersé subtis elevate nervosa; lobi distantes, 
apice rotundati, medius longior, cuneato-oblongus, brevé subacuminatus vel 
nunc retusus: petioli breviores lamina, stricti, patentes, filiformes + stipules 
subulatae, exiguae, sphacelate, caduce. Pedunculi superné in ramis azillares, 
solitarii, filiformes, stricti, triunciales, erecti, paulo infra calycem articulate 
— atque geniculato-flexi. Cal. duplec: exterior virens, _8-9-phyllus, pariim 
brevior interiori, campanulatus, Jfoliolis linearibus angustis acutis hirto-villosis 
carinatis ; interior subsemi5-fidus, pariim excedens tertiam partem uncia, pal- 
lidior, pilis penicellatis v. stellatis pubescens, segmentis lanceolatis carinato- 
uninervits. Cor. rosea, nutans, obconico-campanulata, paulo infra 2 uncias 
longa, eatus villosiuscula et nervosa, subinaegualis ob ique patula, laciniis 
obovato-v. cuneato-oblongis, apice obliquato-rotundis, subretusis cum mucronulo, 
und infima majore. Tubus stamineus pallidé roseus, 4 brevior corolld, Su= 
pernd versits interrupté staminiferus ; fil. vaga, dissita, sepeée binata, brevias 
anth. subrotunde ; pollen é spherulis incarnatis granulosum. Styli.5, tubum 
stamineum superantes, rosei: stig. globosa, pilosa, pallidé rosea. 
SS NN 
Introduced subsequently to the publication of the last 
edition of the Hortus Kewensis, and not represented by 
any figure from the living plant. A native of the Cape 
of Good Hope, where it was observed by Thunberg growing 
in the woods at a place called Galgebosche. It formsa very 
ornamental greenhouse-plant, and blossoms freely about 
July. The beauty of its large rose-coloured flowers is 
greatly enhanced by the dusky green of the foliage. 
An upright shrub, in the specimen we saw little more 
than 2 feet high, with round green roughly furred branches, 
Leaves alternate, distant, dark green, hirsute, subcor- 
dately round, 3-lobed, toothed, an inch and half (more or 
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