182 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



the cut stumps, it is highly probable that, in the future, the plant 



will be cultivated and appreciated to a much greater extent than is 



the case at the present time. (See Cook & Collins, "Economic Plants 



of Porto Rico," Contributions U. S. National Herbarium, VIII, 1903, 



p. 212.) 



448. Hibiscus elatus Swartz. 



Hibiscus elatus Swartz, Prodromus Descriptionum Vegetabilium Indiae Occi- 



dentalis, 1788, p. 102. 

 Paritium elatum G. Don, General Histoiy of the Dichlamydeous Plants, I, 1831, 



p. 485. 



A tree about twenty feet high, growing in the swamp at the western 

 base of Mt. Colombo, May 12, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 265. Gen- 

 eral Distribution: Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Jamaica, southern Mexico, 

 Guiana, and probably the West Indies and tropical continental 

 America generally. 



There is a difference of opinion among botanists as to the distinct- 

 ness of Hibiscus tiliacetis and Hibiscus elatus, a number of leading 

 botanists having treated them as one and the same species. The 

 writer has not investigated the subject to any great extent but the 

 evidence indicates two distinct species. 



449. Hibiscus furcellatus Lamarck. 



Hibiscus furcellatus Lamarck, Encyclopedia Methodique, Botanique, III, 1789. 



p. 358. 

 Hibiscus tomentosus Stahl, Estudios sobra la Flora de Puerto Rico, II, 1884, p. 92. 



Not Miller. 

 Hibiscus fralernus Sesse & MogiNO, Flora Mexicana, Ed. II, 1894, p. 161. Not 



Linnaeus. 



Along an arroyo, Los Indies, May 17, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 

 Jj6; in pine-barrens near Los Indios, May 19, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 3Q7. General Distribution: Naturalized in Florida; native in 

 Cuba, the Isle of Pines, Dominica, Trinidad, Central and South 

 America; Sandwich Islands. 



Flowers large, rose-color, like Hibiscus Moscheutos. 



450. Hibiscus costatus A. Richard. 



Hibiscus costatus A. Richard, in Sagra, Historia Fisica, Politica y Natural de la 

 Isla de Cuba, X, 1845, PP- 49-50, and plate 15, Vol. XII. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 4, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 326. 

 General Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



