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lately nd lobed, a broad lobes unevenly toothed: ees narrowly linear, 
2-— m. long: cian ovate: petals white or pink, becoming deep-red: 
SeA 2.5 cm. —( COTTON-ROSE. )—Waste-places and inelands S Fla. 
and S La. Nat. of China — (W. I., Mex., C. A., S. A.) —Spr.-s 
12. H. coccineus Walt. Plant 9-30 dm. tall, glabrous: Qo blades with 
linear or lanceolate lobes 4—25 cm. long: braetlets 2.5-3 em. long: calyx 4-5 
em. long; lobes acuminate: petals crimson or deep-red: UE Md 
2—2.5 em. long, ERS —Swamps, near the coast, Fla. to Ala. and Ga.—Sum. 
13. H. semilobatus Chapm. Plant similar to that of H. coccineus in habit: 
leaf-blades orbieular or die iid toothed and 3-5-lobed, 8—15 cm. in 
diameter: Bud 2-9.5 em. lon a calyx 4—5 em. long; lobes acute: petals 
-erimson: capsule about 25 em. long. 2 near the coast, E Fla.— 
Spr.—fall. 
14. H. Sabdariffa L. Plant 6—26 dm. tall, the foliage red throughout: 
leaf- om uo a T the lobes erenate-serrate, the teeth shallow: 
bractlets linear-lanceolate, very thick, sparingly pubescent, juicy: 
calyx- dc pss like the bractlets dark- red, very thick, copio usly fine- 
slag within: petals pi with dark bas m S nb ovoid, 1.5-2 cem. 
long, pu nt.—(JAMAICA-SORREL. per E.)— ands, hammocks, and 
waste- n Everglade Keys, Fla. and Florida Keys. Eom of the O. W. tro 
and cu W. I. Mex., C. A., S. A.) —A11 year.—The succulent tissues con- 
in iow p mueilage, coloring matter, and an ac cid, all of which combines to 
make an excellent jelly. The miden ealyees are cooked and served as 
‘í eranberries.? 
15. us L. Shrub or small tree, minutely pubescent when young: 
leaf-blades 3 lobed, coarsely crenate, 3-12 cm. long: bractlets linear or linear- 
spatulate, 10-20 mm. long: calyx-lobes triangular-ovate: petals rose-purple, or 
white, usually with crimson blotches at the base: capsule ellipsoid- -ovoid, 2-2.5 
em. long.—(SHRUBBY-ALTHAEA. ROSE-OF- freed —Roadsides, fields, and 
thickets, various provinces, Fla. to Tex. and Conn. Nat. of western Asia and 
cult.—Sum.-fall. 
16. H. Rosa-Sinensis L. Shrub or small tree, amaliy sparingly pubescent: 
leaf-blades: ovate to ovate-lanceolate, rounded or abruptly narrowed at the 
base, coarsely and unequally A bractlets narrowly i calyx-lobes 
lanceolate, more ee within than without: petals rose-red or of other 
colors: capsu 2.5 long — (Son. -BLACK PLANT. CHINESE-ROSE.)— 
Fields, waste- laces T "ioadeides. pen. Fla. at. of China and eult.— 
(W. I. )—All year.—Extensively grown as an ornamental in warm and tropical 
countries. It is Soros ied by many color forms. The flowers yield a 
blaek dye. 
14. ABELMOSCHUS Medie. de usually large and coarse, mostly 
annual. Leaf-blades entire or l Flowers solitary and terminal  In- 
volucel of 4—many narrow a p united into a long spathe- -like 
calyx which splits and falls away from the fruits. Petals 5, broad, Carpels 
elongate, forming a long and narrow pointed capsule. Seed glabrous.—About 
12 species, tropical. 
Leaf-blades with short broad lobes: bractlets of the involucel linear, caducous 
1. A. es aie ie. 
