Malvaceae. 
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valuable timber, much prized, especially by cabinet-makers, 
having - , when worked up and polished, the appearance of dark 
green variegated marble. The bark is the material employed 
by the Negroes in making the better description of ropes. The 
young shoots and leaves yield abundantly a fine mucilage, and 
they have been employed with advantage, infused in boiling 
water, as a substitute for the vanglo or zezecjary , in Dysentery. 
8. Hibiscus tiliaceus. Seaside Mahoe. 
Leaves subrotundo-cordate acuminate crenated 
hoary and pubescent beneath, involucellum 10-toothed. 
Malva arborea maritime, folio subrotundo minore acuminato 
subtus candido, Sloane, I. 215. t. 134. f. 4. — H. tiliaceus, Cav. 
diss. III. 151. t. 55. f. \.— Willd. Sp. III. 810. — De Cand. 
Prod. I. 454. — II. abutiloides, J)e Cand. Prod. 1. 454. 
HAB. Common by the sea-shore. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
A tree, 10—20 feet in height. Leaves with a linear pore on 
the under surface of each of the three middle nerves. Stipules 
lanceolate, striated, pubescent, marescent, deciduous. Pedun- 
cles solitary, in the axils of the subterminal leaves. Flowers 
yellow. Calyx with a linear pore on the back of each of its 
segments. 
The leaves of this species are thicker, but not so large as 
those of the preceding. The flowers also are smaller, of a yel- 
low colour, with the petals membranaceous. The bark affords 
a strong fibre equal to hemp or flax, and, when well twisted 
and tarred, is not inferior to the best description of hempen 
rope. Dampier mentions, that he had often occasion to make 
use of ropes, made from the bark of this tree, in refitting the 
rigging of his vessels. All parts of the tree, especially the 
flowers, abound with a mucilaginous juice. — This species ap- 
pears to be common to the shores of the East, as well as of the 
W est Indies. From its growing near the sea, its capsules are 
conveyed by the waters to distant countries, and hence its 
general diffusion. There appear to be no good grounds, for 
separating our West India plant, from that which grows along 
the shores of the East, as it agrees perfectly with the character 
assigned by De Candolle to the latter. I never met with the 
leaves, as stated to be in the Prodromous, glabrous on both sides. 
9. Hisbiscus clypeatus. Congo-Mahoe. 
Leaves cordate semi-trilobate dentate velvety and 
hoary especially beneath, branches velvety, peduncles 
longer than the petiole, leaflets of the involucellum 
9-11, calycine lobes ovate acuminate 5-ncrved, cap- 
sule hirsute. 
