Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

with the terminal lobe ovate obovate or rounded and
crenate-toothed, the lateral lobes few short obtuse and
lobulate. Peduncle terminal, stout, solitary, erect, naked,
tomentose, shorter or longer than the leaves, rarely exceeding
three inches long. Heads depressed-hemispherical, one and
a half inches in diameter ; involucral-bracts rarely as long
as the flowers, lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, subacute. Flowers
very many, one-third of an inch long, those of the ray
horizontal, limb oblique two-lipped, those of the disk erect,
regular, with a slender tube and campanulate five-fid limb ;
involucel cylindric, truncate, with plumose long or short
awns. Calycine awns 15-16, much longer than the invo-
lucel, plumose. Corolla of the ray nearly half an inch long,
tube pubescent, upper lip two-lobed, lobes short rounded
lobulate ; lower lip three-lobed, lobes ovate obtuse ; corolla
of the disk-flowers shorter, tube equalling the campanulate
four-lobed limb. Stamens with filaments twice as long as
the corolla-lobes.•J. D. H.
Fig. 1, Flower of disk ; 2, flower of ray ; 3, awn of calyx ; 4, anther ; 5, stigma :
•all enlarged.