Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

lanceolate reduced leaves. Flowers twelve to twenty,
arranged in a moderately dense simple multifarious spike;
bracts ovate-navicular, acute, glabrous, above an inch long,
yellow or red. Calyx on a very short stout, pedicel, pro-
truded a little beyond the bract, green, glabrous ; sepals
oblong, obtuse. Petals white, Ungulate, twice as long as
the calyx, furnished with a pair of cunéate white fimbriated
scales at the base. Stamens a little shorter than the petals ;
filaments filiform ; anthers small, yellow, linear-oblong,
versatile. Ovary ampullseform ; style reaching to the top
of the anthers ; stigma of three crisped ovate lobes. Capsule
twice as long as the calyx.•J. G. Baker.
Fig. 1, a scale from the base of the petal; 2, a couple of stamens; 3, pistil;
1. horizontal section of ovary ; 5, stigma :•all more or less magnified.