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Title: The ornamental trees of Hawaii
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962
Subjects: Trees--Hawaii.
Publisher: Honolulu: (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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flowers are considered of medicinal value, and an infusion ofthe petals is given as a demulcent. The leaves are said to be emollientand laxative. The bark, like that of //. mutabilis, yields a good fibre. Hibiscus schizopetalus Hook. f. Coral Hibiscus. The so-called Coral Hibiscus is an erect, glabrous shrub, fourto twelve feet high, with the branches often elongated and drooping;the leaves are oblong to egg-shaped, pointed, and have toothed mar-gins. The flowers are borne singly in the axils of the leaves on longpendulous flower-stalks. The corolla is red, recurved and finely splitinto numerous slender laciniate lobes. The staminal tube is long-exserted and pendulous. This rather handsome species is common incultivation and flowers all the year. It is in all probability a nativeof Africa, but is now cultivated in many tropical countries and canbe found in nearly every garden of Honolulu, either as individualshrubs or planted as a tree hedge, as for example, on Young Street, Plate LV
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Hibiscus mutabilis L.Changeable Rose-Mallow. The double variety. Malvaceae. 139 near the High School. The Coral Hibiscus has been used in Hono-lulu to a great extent as a male plant in crosses with other Hibiscus. Hibiscus mutabilis L. Changeable Rose-Mallow. Plate LV. The Rose-Mai I on- is an erect branched shrub, six to fifteen feethigh, and more or less covered with short grayish stellate hairs; theleaves are five-lobed or five-angled, crenate, about eight inches long,pointed, and heart-shaped at the base. The pedicels are axillary,single, and three and one-half to five and one-half inches long. Theflowers, which open white and turn pink to red as the day advances,are four and one-half inches in diameter, usually double, as in thecase of the plant here figured, but sometimes single. This true Hibiscus resembles a Mallow, whence the name Rose-Mallow. It is a native of China, but is now cultivated in most tropi-cal countries. In Honolulu it is usually found on residential prem-ises a

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