Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

The species is named by Dr. Cosson after H. de
Perraudière, one of his companions during an expedition
into the mountains of Eastern Khabylie in 1861, when the
species was discovered. It flowers early in June.
DESCR. Sparsely clothed with spreading lax scattered
hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate, petiole slender, rigid, flexuous, a
span long and under ; leaflets rigid, coriaceous, two to three
inches long by one and a half to two broad, ovate-cordate
or orbicular-ovate, acute, acutely closely ciliate-toothed, basal
sinus deep narrow, the rounded basal lobes sometimes over-
lapping, rigid, when young of a fine red bronze colour shot
with green ; petiolules one to one and a half inch long. Scape
equalling the leaves, springing directly from the root-stock,
many-flowered ; raceme glandular-pubescent, twelve- to
twenty-flow T ered ; pedicels slender, one-third to two-thirds
of an inch long, horizontal; bracts small, caducous. Flowers
bright yellow, three-quarters to two-thirds of an inch in
diameter. External sepals minute, oblong, caducous ; inner
orbicular or broadly oblong, horizontally spreading, broadly
imbricate. Petals with a cucullate toothed lamina ; spur
stout, obtuse, cylindric, incurved, about as long as the blade.
Stamens twice as long as the petals ; anthers narrowly
linear. Ovary cylindric, undulate on the ventral face ; style
incurved.•J. D. H.
Fig. 1, Petal ; 2, stamens ; 3, ovary :•all enlarged.