Inventory 47, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate III. 





A Roselle Plant in Flower and Fruit. (Hibiscus sabdariffa L., 



No. 42473.) 



S. P. I. 



Although the roselle is an all-round producer, the leaves being used for boiled greens in TTawaii 

 and in curries in India, the seed, being commonly used as poultry feed, and the bark having been 

 used extensively in India for its fiber, its chief value at present seems to be in the use of the fleshy 

 calyxes for making a delicious jelly or sauce. It-; large yellow flowers and deep crimson stem's 

 and. flower buds make it a striking shrubby perennial worthy a place in southei n gardens. | s^o 

 Plate IV.) (Photographed bv R. A. Young at the Plant Introduction Field Station, Brooksville, 

 Fla., Nov. 18, 1918; P2440oFS.) 



