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HIBISCUS Rosa malabarica. 
The Malahar Rose Hibiscus. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Matvacexk. Jussieu gen. 271. Div. III. Stamina indefi- 
nita. Fructus simplex multilocularis. 
HIBISCUS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 29.” 
H. Rosa malabarica, foliis cordatis, acuté serratis; ramis subhirtis; caule 
fruticoso. Keenig in specimine archetypo herb. banks. asservato. 
Hibiscus pheeniceus. Roxburgh MSS. in sched. banks. cum tab.; (non alio- 
rum.) f 
Suryamani (or gem of the sun). Sanscrit. 
Sjamin. Rheede mal. 10. 1. tad. 1. 
(8) Hibiscus hirtus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2.2. 977. Cav. diss. 3. 156. t. 67. 
Hi Tal aeee 8. hirtus. (Exclusé varietate a, supra in vol. 3. fol. 230. 
| data. : eh . 
Alcea fruticosa malabariensis, angustis foliis rigidiusculis, floribus amoené 
rubellis, semine papposo. Pluk. alm. 14. t. 254. fig. 3. rahe 
Frutex (hirtiusculus ) foliis cordatis, serratis, aculis, villosis ; _stipulis sub- 
ulatis; pedunculis azillaribus, solitariis, unifloris (non articulalis’ nob. ).3 
foliolis calycinis exterioribus 5-6; antheris verticillatis; capsulis globosis ; 
seminibus danatis. Variat flore albo. Roxb. loc. cit. 
Clearly a very distinct species from the Hrsiscus phe- 
niceus of the younger Linneeus and Jacquin, published in the 
third volume of this work, fol. 230; although probably a 
mere variety of the Hrsiscus hirtus of the elder Linnzus, 
incautiously subjoined by Willdenow to pheeniceus as the va- 
riety 6. In pheeniceus the peduncles are jointed, and the 
upper part is thicker than the lower; which is not the case 
here. The leaflets of the inner calyx are there membranous, 
rather smooth, and three times broader than in our plant, 
where they are herbaceous and roughly furred. Pheniceus is 
altogether a much slenderer plant, not so conspicuously nor 
stiffly furred as the present; and we suspect that it is not 
even an East-Indian vegetable. Jacquin’s specimen is pre- 
served in the Banksian Herbarium, and is evidently of a 
distinct species from the three other specimens from three 
distant parts of India preserved in the same place under one 
name; and which appear all to be of the species of our plant. 
Probably Jacquin’s plant is really South-American, as he 
asserts. .. 
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