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the bark of Thespesia (Hibiscus) popuinea (Portia tree) are employed by native practitioners 
for the cure of cutaneous diseases. An infusion of the roots of Pavonia odorata is prescribed 
as a diet-drink in fevers.. Other species of this order are, and nearly all from their mucilaginous 
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variations that some Botanists have even doubted whether there are more than two distinct, and 
permanently distinguishable species, among the whole host of forms that have by different au- 
thors been supposed entitled to rank as such 
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both these catalogues will probably be found in excess. . Lush and Jacquemont reduce them 
to two. These Botanists probably err in the opposite extreme, but yet, as their opportunities 
of observation were great, their statements must i with deference. They seem to 
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liarities of foliage in all the varied situations and circumstances in which they have been made 
to grow in all the four quarters of the world. Under this view, I acknow ledge three species as cer: 
