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PAVONIA spinifex. f 
Prickly-seeded Pavonia, 
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MAtvAcem. Jussieu gen.271. Div. IJ. Stamina in tubum ~ 
corolliferum connata, indefinita. Fructus multicapsularis ; capsule verticil- 
late, in orbem disposite aut in unam compacte. 
PAVONIA. Cal. 5-fidus, calyculo 5-20-phyllo aut multipartito cinctus. 
‘Anthere in apice et superficie tubi.. Stigmata 8-10. Capsule 5 in orbem 
disposite, 2-valves l-sperme. Frutices, rarits herbe; flores axillares aut 
spicati terminales. Wesco affinis, sed multicapsularis, Capsule quarundam 
apice spinose. Juss. 1. c. 272. 
-P, spinifer, foliis ovatis acuminatis subcordatis duplicato-dentatis, peduncu- 
Seelt 
s axillaribus, calyce heptaphyllo, capsulis quadriaristatis, aristis di- ss 
vergentibus. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 834. 
Pavonia spinifex. Cavan. diss. 3. 133. t. 45. fig. 2. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. & 
232. 
Hibiscus spinifex. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2. 978. Jacg. hort. vindob. 2. 46. t. 103. 
Hort. Kew. 2. 455. 
_ Abutilon americanum fruticosum folio subrotundo flore luteo, fructu acu- 
- leato majore. Plum. spec. 2. tc. 1. 
(8) Pavonia aristata, caule fruticoso hummili, foliis cordatis ovato-lanceolatis 
crenatis scabriusculis, floribus solitariis parvis, capsulis aristatis. Cavan. 
diss. 3. 183. tab. 45. fig. 3. 
Frutex 2-3-orgyalis; trunco pul ier crasso; ramis paucis longis, virgatis, 
teretibus, erectis, junioribus scabriusculis. Fol. cordato-ovata, crenata, tn- 
divisa vel obsolete angulata, haud admodim acuta, utringue scabriuscula, 
petiolata, alterna, Pedunculi wniflort, solitarti, axillares, petiolorum circitéer 
dongitudine. Cal. é duplict serie foliolorum linearium vel lanceolatorum, et att 
oras pilosorum ; exterior guinis, quem etiam nunc pluribus variantem observo ; 
interior semi-quingue-fidus est. Cor. magna, lutea, elegans, inodora, et sub- 
_campanulata, ex petalis 5 obverse ovatis dorsoque nervosis. Antherse auran- 
tiace. Germ. pilosum. Fructus 2 capsulis 5, wnilocularibus, monospermis, 
non dehiscentibus, maturis sibi invicém discedentibus. Ha singule spinis 
armantur ternis. Spinze laterales, quarumlibet duarum vicinarum capsularum 
aded, se invicém contingunt, ut sepé unicam mentiantur. Sem. oblonga, ni- 
gricantia. Jacq. loc. cit. : ; 
Pavonta is principally distinguished from Hiprscus by 
having a fruit separated into 5 distinct bivalved oneseeded 
capsules, instead of one united into a single five-celled 
polyspermous capsule, as in the latter. 
The present shrub is native of South America; Poa 
introduced from the West Indies by Dr. William Wright in 
1778. Itissaid to vary from with a very large corolla to 
