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crimfon, fcarlet, orange and golden yellow : the 
whole plant is of a mod 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 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 fpiriy. 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 feme rich fwamps on the Ihores of the 
ifland, and thefe are verged on the outfide with 
large marfbes, covered entirely with tall grafs, 
rufhes, and herbaceous plants ; amongd thefe are 
feveral fpecies of Hibifcus, particularly the hibif- 
cus coccineus. This mod dately 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 p^ant 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 
didance. They continue to flower in fucceflion 
all dimmer and autumn, when the dems wither 
and decay; but the perennial root fends forth new 
dems the next fpring, and fo on for many years* 
Its leaves are large, deeply and elegantly finuated, 
having fix or leven very narrow den rated feg- 
•* Convol. diile&uss 
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