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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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regular drops and vermic-ular pieces, is soft and tough, and swells in water into a tough carti-laginous mass, which turns from a deep reddish brown color to black.The sapwood is white, while the heartwood is brown, rather soft andperishable; it weighs about twenty-six pounds per cubic foot. It isa native of the West Indies and Central America, but is nowcultivated in most tropical countries. It is grown from seed. TheMonkey-pod or Rain-Tree is a rapid grower, especially under irri-gation. Its name Rain-Tree is probably derived from the fallingliquid excreta of cicadeae insects which inhabit the trees in CentralAmerica. The name Monkey-pod is simply a translation of the oldgeneric name Pithecolobium. It is one of the finest shade trees and is on that account welladapted for street-planting, where shade is required. It is most ex-tensively planted in the Islands; fine specimens may be seen on Puna-hou Street, at Moanalua Gardens, and elsewhere; some with a spreadof over a hundred feet.
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Leguminosae. 83 It is one of those trees in which the leaflets are possessed of thepower of movement and close together at sundown, thus sheddingthe dew. When the sun is high the leaflets spread out and screen offthe powerful rays of the sun. It is a valuable tree for crop protectionas it prevents excessive evaporation from the soil. Albizzia Lebbek (L.) Benth. The Siris Tree. Plate XXXIV. The Siris Tree is large, deciduous, and spreading. It is culti-vated here and there in parks and along streets about Honolulu. TheSiris Tree is a native of tropical Africa and Asia; it grows in theevergreen mixed forests in the lower Himalayas from the Indus toBengal, Burmah, as well as in Central and South India, and oftenascends to an elevation of five thousand feet. As the tree is decidu-ous and remains for a long time bare, save for the broad yellow paperypods which hang in great numbers and do not improve the appear-ance of the tree, it cannot be called ornamental; besides, its flowersare more

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