12 PLANTS OF BERMUDA. 



capsule surrounded by the closely -cipplied calyx. Distribution, 

 East Indies ; introduced, most warm countries ; habitat, gardens, 

 shrubberies, and occasionally hedges. Flowers large, four inches 

 in diameter, red, changing to white. A douhle-fiowered variety of 

 the above (H.floreplcno) and several other species of Hibiscus are culti- 

 vated, H. rosa-sinemis, tvith scarlet flowers and long staminal tube, H. 

 (ParitiumJ datum, and H. populneus. 



Nat: Ord: 10 Tillaccce. 



Shrubby plants (or trees) with alternate, stixDulate leaves ; sepals 

 five ; petals five ; stamens many, hj'-pogynous ; ovary five -celled ; 

 stigma five -toothed ; fruit few- seeded. 



I. TRIUMFETTA. 



1. T. aUhwoidvs (Burr bush). A shrubby plant three to four feet 

 liigh, covered with stellate down. Stems erect, branched, tough ; 

 leaves two to three inches, velvetty, roundish, three-lobed, upper 

 narrower, more entire, and all irregularly toothed ; flowers in short, 

 crowded and interrupted racoDies ; sepals five, reddish brown, end- 

 ing in spine-like teeth ; petals five ; stamens ten, surrounded at 

 base by a small cup ; fruit globose, covered with hairy, hooked 

 spines, two-celled, four-seeded. Distribution, West Indies and 

 other tropical countries ; habitat, a wayside weed, common. Flow- 

 ers yellow, quarter-inch ; July to November. 



Nat: Ord: 11 Guttiferoc. 



Trees with opposite undivided leaves ; sepals and petals each 

 usually four in imbricated whorls ; stamens many ; fruit a drupe or 

 few-seeded berry. The Mammee apple (Mammea AinericanaJ , of 

 which one or two trees are to be found here, belongs to this order. 



I. CALOl'HYLLUM. 



1. O. calaba ((lalba). A tree twenty to thirty feet high, branch- 

 ing from the ground upwards ; leaves oblong, blunt, leathery, with 

 feather-like veins, tliree inclies long and half that width ; racemes 

 axillary, few-flowered, shorter than leaves ; sepals four, coloured ; 

 petals four; stamens numerous ; fruit a one -seeded drupe one inch 

 in diameter (eatable). Distribution, West Indies; habitat, hedges, 

 common. Flowers white, odorous, half -inch in diameter. 



Nat: Ord: 12 Hi/pericaecce. 

 Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves opposite, entire, with trans- 

 parent dots, without stipules ; sepals imbricated, four to five (six), 

 unequal ; petals four to five, very unequal-sided ; stamens numer- 

 ous, sometimes united into several parcels ; styles distinct, two to 

 five ; fruit capsular, many-seeded. A gamboge tree fVismia Guian- 

 ensis) may be seen in Government Gardens, St. George's. 



I. HVrEUICUM. 



Calyx five-purled ; petals five ; stamens in three to five bundles. 

 1. H. perforatum. An erect, perennial plant. Stems two-edged ; 

 Jcavcs oblong, blunt, with numerous transparent glands; cymes 



