Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

tips, sparingly branched, slender, leafy, red. Leaves half
an inch long, ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute,
acuminate or obtuse, deep green with a pale midrib, margin
narrowly cartilaginous, quite smooth. Flowers solitary and
sessile at the ends of the branches, an inch long. Calyx-tube
narrowly campanulate ; lobes five, similar to the leaves,
half as long as the corolla, spreading stellately. Corolla-
tube subcylindric, a little inflated, whitish striped with blue ;
lobes five, small, triangular-ovate, acute, intensely blue,
much longer than the small entire obtuse folds. Stamens
inserted about the middle of the tube ; anthers free. Ovary
fusiform, stipitate, stigmas revolute. Capsule fusiform,
enclosed in the corolla-tube, and as long as it is. Seeds
with a lamellate rugose testa, not winged.•/. D. H.
Fig. I, Flower vertically cut open, with two uppermost leaves of the branch
2, stamen ; 3, lip of ovary and stigmas ; 4, ovules :•all enlarged.