Entry for PARITIUM tiliaceum S. Hil. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
PARITIUM tiliaceumS. Hil. [family MALVACEAE], Fl. Braz. 1. p. 198
Hibiscus tiliaceusLinn. [family MALVACEAE], DC. Prod. 1. p. 454. Cav. Diss. 3. t. 55. Bot. Reg. t. 232. Wight, Ic. t. 7.
Information
a tree; leaves on long petioles, roundish-cordate, with a sudden acumination, quite entire or crenulate, 5–7-nerved, glabrous on the upper, velvetty and canescent on the lower surface; stipules ovate, deciduous; flowers in terminal cymes; involucel 10-toothed. An umbrageous tree, 20–30 feet high, with a round head, and leaves not unlike those of the lime tree in form, but of a thick, leathery substance, pale and softly velvetty beneath. Flowers either from the axils of the terminal leaves, or in cymoid few-flowered panicles, yellow, with a dark, purplish-brown centre.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sea-shores. Mouth of the Omsamcaba, Drege! Port Natal, T. Williamson, &c. (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.).
