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crimfon, fcarlet, orange and golden yellow : the 
whole plant is of a moft agreeable fcent. The 
orange-flowered fhrub Hibifcus is alfo confpicuoufly 
beautiful (perhaps Hibifc. fpinifex of Linn.) It grows 
five or fix feet high, and fubramous. The branches 
are divergent, and furnimed with cordated leaves, 
which are crenated. The flowers are of a mode- 
rate fize, and of a deep fplendid yellow. The pe- 
ricarpii are fpiny. I alfo faw a new and beautiful 
palmated leaved convolvulus*. This vine rambles 
over the fhrubs, and (trolls about on the ground ; 
its leaves are elegantly fituated, of a deep grafs 
green, and fit on long petioles. The flowers are 
very large, infundibuliform, of a pale incarnate co- 
lour, having a deep crimfon eye. 
There are fome rich fwamps on the mores of the 
illand, and thefe are vergec] on the outfide with 
large marines, covered entirely with tall grafs, 
rufhes, and herbaceous plants ; amongft thefe are 
feveral fpecies of Hibifcus, particularly the hibif- 
cus cocineus. This moft (lately of all herbaceous 
plants grows ten or twelve feet high, branching 
regularly, fo as to form a (harp cone. Thefe 
branches alfo divide again, and are embellimed 
with large expanded crimfon flowers. I have feeri 
this plant of the fize and figure of a beautiful little 
tree, having at once feveral hundred of thefe fplen- 
did flowers, which may be then feen at a great 
diftance. They continue to flower in fucceflioa 
all fummer and autumn, when the (terns wither 
and decay ; but the perennial root fends forth new 
ft ems the next fpring, and fo on for many years, 
Its leaves are large, deeply and elegantly fmuatecl 
having fix or feven very narrow dentated leg- . 
* Convol. diffe^tus. 
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