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HIBISCUS hispidus. 
Hispid Bladder Ketmia. 
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
‘Nat. ord. MALVACER. Juss. DC. Prodr. 1. 429. 
HIBISCUS. L. Calyx cinctus involucello sepius polyphyllo, rarits 
foliolis paucis aut inter se coalitis. Petala hinc non auriculata. Stigmata 5. 
arpella in capsulam 5-locularem coalita, valvis intus medio septiferis, lo- 
culis polyspermis, aut rarius 1-spermis. DC. 1. c. 1. p. 446. 
‘Sect. VIII. Drionum. Medic. Carpella polysperma. Semina glabra, 
Corollz expanse. Involucellum polyphyllum. Calyx demum vesicu- 
losus inflatus. i 
H. hispidus, foliis dentatis inferioribus trilobis, summis 5-partitis obtusis, 
lobis lanceolatis subzqualibus, calycibus nervosis. 
Hi. hispidus. Mill. dict. ed. 8. Sweet hort. sub. p. 157. 
Hi. Trionum. y. hispidus. De Cand. 1. c. p. 453. 
M. Decandolle, in his last work, the Prodromus systema- 
tis naturalis regni vegetabilis, has arranged the natural 
order to which this plant appertains, in a manner at once 
Jearned and easy of application. The number of Malva- 
ceous plants described by him is five hundred and fifty-nine 
species, classed in twenty-three genera, exclusive of a con- 
siderable number of doubtful species, which could not be 
referred to their proper stations from want of sufficient in- 
formation respecting them; and of Bombacez of Kunth, | 
and of some other orders which have been recently separated 
from the Malvaceze of Jussieu, and, as we think, with pro- 
priety. ) é 
The plants more immediately akin to the subject of this 
article, have been referred to Hibiscus by most writers, but 
formed with some reason into a separate genus by Medicus. 
Their principal distinguishing feature being, however, their 
vesicular veiny calyx, we think with M. Decandolle, that in 
their case, as in all similar cases, convenience is best con- 
sulted by regarding such a character of no more than sec- 
tional importance. We are obliged, however, to differ 
from him in thinking this plant a variety of Hibiscus Trio- 
num. Itis a native of the Cape of Good Hope, anda more 
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