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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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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the fruit, abound in mucilage. The pulp of thefruit has a pleasant, cool taste, and is a good refrigerant in fever.The negroes powder the dry leaves, which the)- call lalo, and usefor excessive perspiration. The fruit varies in size and shape. Itoften reaches a length of more than twelve inches and a diameterof three to four inches, but occasionally has the shape of a gourd. Itcontains many brown seeds, is slightly acid, and produces a ratherpleasant drink. The negroes eat the fruits. Owing to the softnessof the wood of the Baobab, the trees are often hollowed out by thenatives of Africa and used for dwelling houses; one of the treeshas been found sufficiently large to accommodate about thirty people.The natives employ the ashes of the fruits and bark, boiled in oil,as soap. The genus Adansonia contains three species, the one discussedhere, one peculiar to Madagascar, and a third known only fromNorth Australia, where it is called Sour-Cucumber Tree, on accountof its fruits. Plate LX.
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Sterculia urens Roxb.Fruiting specimen. Sterculiaceae. 149 STERCULIACEAE Cacao Family. Besides the species treated below, mention must be made of theCacao, or Chocolate Tree, Theobroma cacao L., a native of tropicalAmerica and cultivated in Honolulu but not commercially since theearly fifties. Specimens occur at Ahuimanu Ranch on Oahu, aswell as in Dr. Hillebrands garden on Nuuanu Avenue. A species of Pterospermiun is also in cultivation in Honolulu,but only in Mrs. Fosters grounds. One young seedling has beenplanted on the College of Hawaii Campus. It has a rather hand-some foliage which is white underneath. The tree in Mrs. Fostersgrounds was cut down, but young ones have come up again, as wellas shoots from the old trunk. As there are no flowers or fruitsavailable, the species cannot be definitely determined, but will prob-ably prove to be Pterospermum suberifolium Lam., a native of In-dia. It was introduced by Dr. Hillebrand. Sterculia urens Roxb.Plates LX and LXI. Sterculia urens

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