Identifier: botanicalregiste04edwa (find matches)
Title: The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Edwards, Sydenham, 1768-1819 Shrewsbury, John Talbot, Earl of, 1791-1852, former owner
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Floriculture Botany
Publisher: (London : s.n.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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. Trexv ehret.t, 14. Native of Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies,where it grows in the woods, to the height of fifteen ortwenty feet. Sloane tells us that the fruit ripens in October^and is eaten. By some this is described as having theflavour of a strawberry. The dry stem of the plant is usedby the natives for a torch to catch fish by, in the night-time.They hold it at the ends of their boats, lighted, and thefish leaping at it, they strike them with spears for the pur-pose. The plant rarely blossoms in this country. The presentdrawing was taken from one that flowered and ripened itsfruit, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne,Fulham. Introduced by Mr. Philip Miller, in 1728. It is far frombeing so well known in our collections as the Great Night-flowering Cereus (Cactus grandifloriis)nor indeed is it sodeserving of the attention of the gardener, the flower beingfar less ornamental, and the fruit not worth being procuredat the expense of a hothouse. VOL. IV. y
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337 HIBISCUS Rosa malabarlca.2he Malahar Hose Hihiscm, MONADELPHIA POL YASDRIJ. Nat. ord. Malvace.^. Jussieu gen. 271. Dii. III. Stamina indefi-nita. Fructus simplex niultilocularis.HIBISCUS. Supra vol. I. fol. 29. H. Rosa malabarica, foliis cordatis, acute serratis; ramis subhirtis; caulefruticoso. Kcenig in specimine archeiypo herb, banks, asservato. Hibiscus phoeniceus. Roxburgh MSS. in sched. banks, cum tab.; (non alio*rum.) Suryamani (or gem of the sun). Sanscrit.Sjamin. Rheede mal. 10. 1. tab. 1. ($) Hibiscus hirtus. Lin. sp.pl. ed. 2. 2. 977. Car. diss. 3. 156. t. 67. Hibiscus phceniceus; ,5. Jiirtus. (Exclusd varietaie a, supra in vol. ^.fol. 230.data.) Alcea fruticosa raalabariensis, angustis foliis rigidiu-culis, floribus amcenerubellis, semine papposo. Pluk. aim. 14-. /. 254.^3^. 3.Frutex f hirtiusculus) foWis cordatis, serratis, acutis, villosis ; stipulis tdatis; pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis, unijioris (non articulalis nob.); foliolis cali/cinis exterioribus 5-6; an

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