with hairy stems one and a half feet long. Leaves two to two 

 and a half inches across, roundish, bluntly five-lobed, serrated, 

 on long stalks. Occasional on roadsides. Flowers pale rose- 

 colour, quarter to half inch in diameter. Perennial. Spring 

 months. 



Hibiscus Mutabilis. Linn, (changeable rose). A shrub or 

 small tree ten to twentj' feet high. Flower stalks long with 

 large, red showy blossoms, changing sometimes to white 

 Leaves heart-shaped, toothed; flower stalks as long as the 

 leaves. Foliage bright green, dense owing to the large size of 

 the leaves Found on the edge of plantations, in hedges and 

 on old cultivated land. The blossoms are four inches in 

 diameter. All seasons. 



Bombax Ceiba Linn, (silk cotton-tree). Four or five very 

 large trees of this species, sixty or seventy feet high, are to be 

 seen in the Mount Langton grounds, on the south base of the 

 hill. They were planted by Governor Reid in r845. Lefroy 

 calls them West Indian trees, but I learned from an African 

 working in the garden that the bombax ceiba is an African tree 

 and that these trees were not old enough to flower. This, 

 however, they must have done» as the same man told me that 

 in some years the trees shed cotton-down. Bombax ceiba must 

 not be confused with the cotton tree of the Western prairie 

 river bottom which is a species of poplar, similarly shedding 

 down. 



Gossypium Herbaceum. Linn, (cotton plant). This is the 

 common cotton cultivated abundantly in the Southern United 

 States of America. Ordinarily a bush with mallow-like leaves, 

 and a yellow showy flower, it attains, if left, to itself the size 

 of a small tree. Lefroy says cotton was grown and spun in 

 Bermuda by the old settlers, by hand-power as it is still spun 

 in India. In Bermuda cotton now has no economic value, its 

 price not warranting the care that it needs. It may be occasion- 

 ally seen in the Walsingham tract and in a few old gardens. 



Natural Order, Tiliaceae. 



Triumfetta Althaeoides. Linn, (burr-bush). A shrubby plant, 

 three or four feet high, covered with down. Stems branched, 



