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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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a L. Fish Poisox Tree. Plate XLIX. Piscidia erythrina is the only species in the genus and is a treeof medium size. The leaves are odd-pinnate and the oblong or ellip-tical leaflets are opposite. The whitish flowers which have a purplishtinge are small, six to eight lines long and arranged in short lateralracemes. The pod is two to four inches long, compressed, and bearsalong each margin two broad membraneous longitudinal wings. Thepod contains six to eight seeds which are oblong, black and sub-compressed. In Honolulu the writer knows of several trees which adornThomas Square Park, and are objects of beauty when in flower. It is a native of the West Indies, Florida and Mexico. The bark of Piscidia is used as a narcotic in stupefying fish. Inocarpus edulis Forst.The Ivi or Tahitiax Chestxut. The Ivi bears a thick crown of oblong leathery leaves, and smallwhite flowers emitting a delicious perfume. The fruits are kidney-shaped and contain a kernel resembling chestnuts in taste. Plate L.
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Erythrina indica Lam.Flowering specimen of the Coral Tree or Tigers Claw. Leguminosae. 119 The Ivi is a very peculiar tree and its position in the naturalorder of plants is doubtful and has puzzled the botanists consider-ably. The flowers are not papilionaceous and the fruit is not a gen-uine legume but a drupe. The coriaceous leaves are simple, anotherfact which estranges this plant from the family Leguminosae. There are a few trees of this species cultivated in Airs. Mary E.Fosters grounds. It is a native of Fiji and other south Polynesian islands, rangingto New Guinea and the Indian Archipelago, where it reaches a heightof sixty to eighty feet. The seed is baked or boiled and eaten without further prepara-tion, or grated is made into pudding or bread. The bark is astringent. It is stated in the records of the Royal Hawaiian AgriculturalSociety that it was first planted by G. Wundenberg at Hanalei,Kauai, in 1849. Erythrina indica Lam. Foreigx or Indian Wiliwili. Tigers Claw, Indian

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