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 HEART PEA. See Cardiospermum Halicacabum. 



HELICTERES JAMAICENSIS, Jacq. 

 Jamaica Screw Tree. 

 Native of West Indies and Central America. 



A shrub or low tree, 4 to 15 feet high, with simple leaves, white 

 flowers, and fruit shaped like a twisted cone. (Malvacece.) 



" A decoction or infusion of the leaves and fruit may be used as a 

 substitute for a similar preparation of marsh mallow, and given as a 

 drink in fevers, consumption, cough, &c." (Macfadyen.) 



HEMP. See Cannabis sativa, 

 HEMP, BOMBAY. See Crotalaria juncea. 



HEMP, MANILA. See Musa textilis. 



HEMP, SUNN. See Crotalaria juncea. 



HEMP, MAURITIUS. See Furcrcba gigantea. 



HIBISCUS ABELMOSCHUS, Linn. 

 Musk Ochra. 



Found in all tropical countries. A somewhat shrubby plant, flowers 

 sulphur- yellow with crimson base, seeds with a musky smell. (Malvacece.) 



Seeds sometimes used as a substitute for musk in perfumery; and 

 in nervous and spasmodic diseases. 



HIBISCUS CLYPEATUS, Linn. 



Congo Mahoe. 



Native of Jamaica. A shrub, 6 to 12 feet high, with reddish-yellow 

 flowers. (Malvacece.) 



Bark fibre used for cord and whip-lashes. 



HIBISCUS ELATUS, Sw. 

 Blue or Mountain Mahoe, Cuba Bark. 



Native of "West Indies. A tree, 50 or 60 feet, with roundish leaves, 

 large flowers of a purplish-saffron colour. (Malvacece.) 



Bark fibres make good ropes. The lace-like inner bark was at 

 one time known as Cuba bark from its being used as the material for 

 tying round bundles of Havanna cigars. 



Wood, valuable to cabinet-makers ; best variety has the appearance 

 of dark-green variegated marble. 



Leaves and young shoots, mucilaginous ; infusion used in dysentery. 



" This wood is much used in building, it makes a very pretty floor- 

 ing and pretty furniture, picture frames, &c. When fully ripe, it is 

 of a dark blackiah-green colour, with darker or lighter bands, and 



