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crimfon, fcarlet, orange and golden yellow : the 
whole plant is of a moft agreeable (cent. The 
orange-flowered fhrub Hibifcus is alfo confpicuoully 
beautiful (perhaps Hibifc. fpinifex of Linn.) It grows 
five or fix feet high, and fubramous. The branches 
are divergent, and furnifhed 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 drolls about on the ground $ 
its leaves are elegantly finuated, 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 ffaores of the 
ifland, and thefe are verged on the outfide with 
large marfhes, covered entirely with tall grafs, 
rufhes, and herbaceous plants ; amongft thefe are 
feveral fpecies of Hibifcus, particularly the hibif- 
cus coccineus. This moft (lately of all herbaceous 
plants grows ten or twelve feet high, branching 
regularly, fo as to form a fharp cone. Thefe 
branches alfo divide again, and are embellifhed 
with large expanded crimfon flowers. I have feen 
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 fucceffion 
all fummer and autumn, when the ftems wither 
and decay but the perennial root fends forth new 
ftems the next fpring, and fo on for many years. 
Its leaves are large, deeply and elegantly finuated, 
having fix or feven very narrow dentated feg- 
* Convol. diffe&usa 
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