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HIBISCUS mutabilis. 
Changeable Rose- Hibiscus. 
. ———a 
MONADELPHIA TOL YANDRIA. 
Nat. ord..MALVACER. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. TIE. Stamina indefi- 
nita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. , 
HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29. 
H. mutabilis, foliis cordatis angulatis quinquelobis acuminatis, calyce exte- 
riore octophyllo, capsula villosa, caule arboreo. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 817. 
Hibiscus mutabilis. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 977. Thunb. jap. 272. Cavan. 
diss. 3. 165, t. 62. fig. 1. Loureiro cochin. 419. Andrews’s reposit, 228. 
Hort. Kew. ed, 2. 4. 226. 
Hibiscus sinensis. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 2. 
Rosa sinensis. Ferr. de cult. flor. 479. tabb. 485-499. Mer. surinam. 31. 
tab. 31. 0 
Flos horarius. Rumph. amb. 4, 27. tab. 9. 
lina-pareti. Rheede malab. 6. 69. tabb. 38-42. 
Frutex arboreus villoso-canescens ramosus, ‘ramis cuticuld tomentosd cine’ 
rascentibus. Fol. tomentosa, dentata 7-9-nervia, 7-9-angulata: stipule 
2 erecta, lincari-atienuate. Flores magni, subquini, in summis ramis axil- 
lares, solitarii, erecti, corymbosi, pedunculis petiolo longioribus, teretibus, 
strictis.» Cal. duplex, herbaceus, mollis, pubescens: oxterior 8-phyllus, inte- 
-riore dimidio brevior, foliolis lineari-atienuatis, 2 majoribus oppositis: 
interior 5-fidus, 4 uncie altus, nervoso-striatus, segmentis ovato-acuminatis. 
Cor. contorto-rotata diametro triunciali v. majore, equalis, extis villosa, 
mane viridi-candicans, meridié diluté erubescens, vespere saturate purpu- 
rascens, occidente sole marcescens: petala cuneato-obovata, nervosa, sesqui- 
uncialia, parum longiora quam lata, basi intis villoso-barbata; lamind sub- 
rotundd. ‘Tubus stamineus triplo feré brevior corollé, lutescens, umbonato- 
conicus, totus confertim antheriferus; anther pallidé sulphuree Jilis incum- 
bentes ipsis longioribus ; pollen ¢é granulis globulosis grumosum. Styli 5 
exserti, replicalt, stigmatibus pruinosis pileato-capitatt: germen ellipticum, 
viride, apice sericco-barbatum. 
Native of the East Indies, China, and Japan. Intro- 
duced by Lord Portland in 1690. It had however been cul- 
tivated before 1632 at Rome by Father Ferrari, the Jesuit 
who wrote the treatise “ De Cultura Florum;” the seed 
having been sent him by some monks of his own order, as 
he says, from the West Indies, where, though not abo- 
riginal, it is much cultivated for the beauty of the flowers, 
which are usually seen in the double or full state, as with us 
in our hothouses. We know of no’ representation of the 
species in the single-flowered Sete in any of our popular 
