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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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bout two hun-dred superficial feet. The leaves of this palm are made into fans, mats and um-brellas; the segments were used by the Cinghalese to write on, andthe sacred Pali texts of the Buddhist literature of Ceylon are allwritten on the leaf segments of this palm which are supposed tohave withstood the ravages of ages. The seeds, which are hard like ivory, are employed in India inthe manufacture of beads; they are sometimes colored red and soldas coral. The pith of the trunk of this palm yields a kind of Sago,it is beaten to flour and baked into cakes. There are two specimens in Honolulu; the finest, here illus-trated, grows in front of Airs. Jaegers residence on King Street;a small specimen which was kept in a pot but has now been plantedout in the same grounds, is of the same age as the large specimen.Another, and probably older one, with a trunk of about ten feetwas perhaps the first one introduced into Hawaii. It grows inAirs. AI. E. Fosters premises on Nuuanu Street. Plate VII.
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Livistona australis Mart. Growing on the Government Nursery grounds on Keeaumoku and King Streets. Palmae. 21 Livistona rotundifolia Mart. The Livistonas are remarkable for their elegant appearanceand beautiful foliage, but they do not possess many useful qualitiesfound in species of other genera. The genus consists of twelve orperhaps fourteen species, which are natives of India and Australiaranging from Assam and South China to the tropical North andsub-tropical East coast of Australia in New South Wales and evento Victoria. Livistona rotundifolia is a tall palm reaching a height of forty-five to sixty feet with a straight smooth trunk, marked with closeannular scars, the leaves are crowded at the apex, their long stalksare armed on the sides with hard sharp teeth; the leaf-blade isorbicular, cleft into numerous segments, one to two inches wide,which are again cleft at the apex into two lanceolate pointed lobes,two inches long; the base is heart-shaped and about three feet in dia-me

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