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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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of K. fruticosum, as variety victoriae Hort., are also incultivation but not at all common. Brassaia actinophylla Em 11.Plate LXIX. Brassaia actinophylla is a handsome tree which attains a heightof forty feet. The leaves are composed of seven to sixteen leaflets,which are stalked, oblong or obovate-oblong in outline, leathery, andentire. The flowers are arranged in little dense heads along thestout rhachis of racemes several feet in length, and of which thereare often several together at the end of the branch. The inflorescenceis red, and the fruits contain about twelve one-seeded laterally com-pressed pyrenes, and are dark purplish-black in color. The genus Brassaia consists of this single species, which is pe-culiar to Australia. It is extensively cultivated in Honolulu andgrows from cuttings as well as from seed. It makes an admirablepot-plant in its young state and is quite ornamental as a tree. It isimmune to insect attacks, and when in flower is quite a showy object. Plate LXIX.
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Brassaia actinophylla F. v. Muell.On the Kaahumanu School grounds, Beretania Street. Myrsinaceae. 171 MYRSINACEAE Ardisia Family. The Ardisia family possesses 33 genera and nearly 1100 species;the genus Ardisia is only represented by two cultivated species. Ardisia humilis Vahl. Ardisia humilis is a shrub six to ten feet in height, with thick,fleshy glabrous branches; the leaves are obovate oblong, acute at thebase and rounded at the apex, thick, fleshy and smooth on both sides,and are on very short leaf stalks. The inflorescence is glabrous,drooping and shorter than the leaves. The flowers are pinkish-purple with small black dots dispersed over the surface of the petalsand sepals; the berry is subglobose and dark purple. This species is a native of the East Indies, extending over Bur-mah to Southern China, the Philippines and neighboring islands. Itis cultivated on account of its pretty purplish flowers, and clean,glossy leaves. In Honolulu specimens occur in Mrs. M. E. Fosterspremis

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