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of the brancblets, acuminate, very entii'e, spreading, of a fivtn consistence, smooth on 

 lioth sides, of a shining green, but paler underneath ; four or five inches long, and 

 half an inch broad in the middle, full of a milky juice, which flows out when they are 

 broken, flowers large, nodding, yellow, smelling very sweet ; corolla contorted. 

 Nectaiy converging into a stai", in the throat of the tube; filaments short, below th^ 

 star ; anthers ovate-acute ; germ five-streaked, surrounded by a yellowish nectareous 

 navel; stigma five-cornered, bifid at the tip ; fruit a green oblate, spheroidal, drupe^ 

 jcontaining an obscurely four-cornered nut, with a single kernel in it. 



Cereus See Indian Fig. 



CHANGEABLE ROSE. HIBISCUS. 



Cl. 16, OR. 6. Monadelpkla poli/andria. Nat. or. ColumnijeTte, 



Gen. char. Calyx a double perianth ; outer many leaved, permanent, leaflets li- 

 near; more rarely one-leafed, many cleft : inner caljx one-leafed, cup-shaped, 

 half five-cleft, permanent ; or five-toothed, deciduous : corolla five-petalled, pe- 

 tals roundish, oblong, narrow at the base, spreading, fastened at bottom to the 

 tube of the stamens ; the stamens are many filameiits, united at bottom into a 



tube; at top divided and loose ; anthers kidney-form ; the pistil has a roundi-sh 

 germ, a filiform style, longer than the stamens, five-cleft at top ; stigmas headed ; 



the pericarp is. a five-cfeiled capsule, five-valved ; partitions contrary, doubled j 



^seeds solitary or several, ovate, kidney-form. 



i. MUTABILIS. CHANGEABLE, 



Fruticosus, bracluatus ; foliis cordato lohatis ; Jlore variabili.- 

 Browne, p. 287. _ 



Leaves cordate-five-angled, obscurely serrate ; stem arboreous. 



This plant has a large and divaricated root, and frequently grows to the stature of -a 

 "-small tree, rising to the height of twelve or fourteen feet. It has a soft spungy stem, 



which by age becomes ligneous and piihy, sending out branches towards the top, which 

 ; are liairj', garnished with heart-shaped leaves, whitish underneath, cut into five, acute 

 vangles in their borders, and slightly sawed on their edges, of a lucid green on the upper 



side and pale below ; die petioles are rough, tiiick, three or four inches in length. 



The peduncles are thicker towards the top, sometimes tinged with red, sustaining large 



-handsome flowers. The single are composed of five petals, which spread open, and 



are at first white, turn to light flesh colour after they bear the action of the sun for some 

 hours, and contract and close for the night, to be ready for the like changes the ensu- 

 ing da}', they become nearly purple before they fade. It has a double variety, and is 

 a native of the East Indies. It is cultivated in many parts of Jamaica, with much suc- 

 cess, oa account of the great beauty of its flowers. Browne calls it the Chinese rosCy 



which is the following species : 



2. ROSA SINENSIS. CHINA ROSE, 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrate ; stem arboreous. 



. "This grows in India to tlie size of an ordinary tree. The' root is large and spreadi'ig. 



The 



