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THE BOTANY: OF "BERMUDA. 53 
H. Rosa-Sinensis, Linn. 
Common in gardens. 
H. grandiflorus, Michx. 
Introduced from Trinidad 1874, already well diffused; its splendid 
crimson flowers, produced in great abundance; are frequently 6 inches 
across. The seed could never be found ripe. 
H. mutabilis, Linn., Changeable rose. 
Common; flowers in October. 
H. Cooperi, hort. 
Ornamental variety with rose-colored margins round the leaves; 
introduced 1874, and found to grow readily at Mount Langton. 
Hi. Bancroftianus, Macf. 
Variety with thick fleshy, glossy, crenate leaves, which flowers rarely. 
At the public buildings and elsewhere. 
H. populneus, Linn. 
In the Cove at Clarence Hill, and elsewhere. 
H. esculentus, Linn. Okra. 
Is cultivated in gardens, and by some persons relished as a vegetable, 
of whom the writer is not one. Abelmoschus esculentus W. A. 
Gossypium herbaceum, Linn. Cotton plant. 
Originally from the East Indies. Cotton of this species was both 
grown and spun in Bermuda, in the last century, as it still is in India 
and Southern Europe. Old plants are to be met with, nearly small 
trees. The down is not now put to any economic use, and is super- 
seded, for economic purposes, in the United States, by G. album, Wight., 
and G. nigrum, Hamilt. 
Thespesia populnea Correa. 
In a garden at St. Georges, where it is known as Gamboge tree by 
some original misapplication of the name. 
Althea rosea, Cav. Hollyhock. 
Met with in gardens occasionally, of poor varieties. 
Bombax ceiba, Linn. id. Silk cotton tree. 
There are several of these trees at Mount Langton, planted by Gov- 
