Identifier: ornamentaltreeso00rock (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ctive, the black seeds being handsomely contrasted againstthe orange-yellow capsule. It is erroneously known as H. Hi/Hiin Honolulu. The family Rhamnaceiae, or Buckthorn family, is represented byZizyphus jujuba Mill., the Jujube, a native of tropical Asia but nowwidely distributed. Several trees occur in Honolulu, as in theQueens Hospital grounds and in the premises of Airs. M. E. Foster,Nuuanu Avenue. Of the Vitaceae, or Grape family, the genus Leea is now undercultivation. The writer is responsible for the introduction of threespecies: Leea manillensis Walp., from the Philippines; Leea sambu-cina Willd., and L. aeuleata Blume from Java. They are quick-growing, small trees, with handsome inflorescences, the first speciesbeing very attractive on account of the large red inflorescence. The family Elaeocarpaceae is represented by a single tree,Elaeocarpus grandis F. v. M. a native of Australia. A single treeof E. grandis occurs in the Government Nursery grounds on KingStreet. Plate LIV.
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Berrya Amonilla Roxb.Trincomali Wood.Fruiting specimen. Tiliaceae-Malvaceae. 135 TILIACEAE Linden Family. Represented by the following species only: Berrya Amonilla Roxb. Trixcomali Wood. Plate LIV. The genus Btrrya, named after the late Dr. Andrew Berry, aAladras botanist, consists only of a single species, here described andfigured. It is a large tree with ovate pointed alternate leaves which areheart-shaped at the base and five to seven nerved. The large flower-ing panicles are terminal as well as axillary. The calyx is bell-shapedand irregularly three to five lobed, while the corolla consists of fivespatulate petals; stamens are many and are inserted on a short torus.The fruit is a papery capsule which opens into three to four valves;each valve is two-winged. The seeds are hairy and when touchedsting like the minute hair of the prickly pear. The Trincomali If ood is a native of South India, Burmah andCeylon, but is cultivated in many tropical countries. In Honolulu the writer know

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