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2. Hibiscus Bosa-Sinensis. Lin n .
Tlie specimens in Capt. Beechey’s Collection, and those from Mr. Millett, have double flowers.
1. Sida rhombifolia; Lin n .
The specimen in the Collection is in no way different from those from the New World, nor does it appear
that S. Thomboidea, Roxb., is a t all distinct. The species however, described in De Candolle, which our
friend Dr. Wight has met witb in the neighbourhood of Madras, has no beaks to the carpels.— Sida humilis,
Willd., S. cordifoUa, L. (according to Wallich), and S. populifolia, Lam., are communicated by Mr. Vachell
and Mr. Millett ; and Gossypium arboreum, from the gardens of Macao.
O r d . X . B O M B A C EÆ . Kunth.
1. HoVicleves angustifolia ; foliis anguste oblongis obtusis mucronatis integerrimis subtus
stellatim pubescentibus pannosis supra vkidibus glabriusculis vel pilis stellatis subscabris,
pedunculis terminalibus axillaribusque binis ternisve paucifloris, carpellis ellipsoideis hispido-
villosissimis.— fEa//. Cat. n. 1187.
a. foliis supra glaberrimis.— H. angustifolia. L in n .— De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p . 476.—
Lour, (non Wall.)— H. virgata. Wall. L i s t o f E a s t In d ia Plants, n. 1181.
/3. foliis supra scabriusculis.
Of this we have been obliged to resort to more perfect specimens than those in the Collection, the first
variety only being gathered, and that destitute of fruit. This is assuredly the true H. angustifolia of Linnæus,
of which WiUdenow says “ folia obtusiuscula.” It appears also to be that inteuded by Loureiro, and is the
only narrow-leaved species we have received from Macao. But then it cau scarcely be the plant of Lamarck,
Encycl. Meth. 3. p. 89, of which he says “ feuiUes lancéolées ou etroites-lanceolées, saliciformes and of
which the description seems to be made up partly from Linnæus’s character, and partly from the branchlets
the Author says he obtained from Sonnerat. Again Sonnerat’s and Lamarck’s plant seems to be H. lan~
ceolata, De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 476; “ species distinctissima:” and with it H. angustifolia, WaUich’s
List, n. 1180, is identical, as also what Colebrooke named if. to Sir James Smith, according to a
specimen communicated by Sir James to Dr. Hooker. But this last must not be confounded with what
stands as H. spicata of Colebrooke, iu Wallictis List, u. 1182, and is described by Mr. G. Don iu his ed. of
Miller’s Dictionary, p. 507, which precisely accords with specimens we have received from Canton, and which
agree so weU with the description given by Loureiro of his H. hirsuta, that we cannot consider them as
any way distinct. This latter we possess from Mr. Vachell and Mr. Millett, gathered about Macao: whilst
the true H. angustifolia, these gentlemen find on Lappas Island.
O r d . X I . B Y T T N E R IA C EÆ . Brown.
1. Sterculia lanceolata; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis obtuse subacuminatis integerrimis
glabris, paniculis axillaribus, laciniis calycinis oblongis extus paniculæque ramulis pubescentibus,
carpellis oblongis oligospermis.— Cav. Diss. 5. p . 287. t. 144. f . 1.— Lin d l. in Bot.
Beg. t. 1296.
In our plants, as well those from Messrs. Lay and Collie as others from Mr. Vachell and Mr. Millett, the
flowers are in small lax panicles, and not in simple racemes.
2. Sterculia nobilis ; foliis ovato-oblongis integris glabris, calycis laciitiis linearibus apice
coherentibus, carpellis ovatis mucronatis 1-2-spermis. De Cand.— Smith in Bees' Cycl.—
S. monosperma. Kent. Malm. t. 91.— S. Balanghas. A it.— Southwellia nobilis. Salisb.
Of tliis we have only seen the panicles of flon-ers.
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