Title: Some ornamental shrubs for the Tropics
Identifier: CAT31289494 (find matches)
Year: 1951 (1950s)
Authors: Hume, Edward Putnam, 1911-
Subjects: Shrubs Tropics
Publisher: (Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off. )
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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SOME ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS FOR THE TROPICS 73 and attached directly to the tube. The flowers resemble Gardenia grandiflora but the six petals are longer. The 4- to 6-inch leaves are bright green and shiny with an un- even surface. The bark is light gray. Propagation is by cuttings. Gmelina elliptica J. E. Smith (fig. 42) Verbenaceae This plant is widely used medicinally in India and Ceylon, the native home of the Gmelina. It is a tall shrub spreading to almost twice its 15-foot height. In the young stages it is quite spiny but the spines are practically lost when the plants reach maturity. Flowers and fruits appear during most of the year. Because of its spreading nature it should be used only in places permitting suffi- cient spread in all directions. It can be grown in light shade but has better form in full sunlight. The plants are adapted to regions of relatively high rainfall and grow well in a heavy clay soil. If pruned or sheared frequently, when small, a hedge can be main- tained. It should be pruned wider than most hedges, especially at the base, in order to hold the foliage near the ground.
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FIGURE 42.—Gmelina elliptica is a yellow-flowered shrub with greenish fruit which becomes yellow on ripening. The li/2- to 2-inch flowers are yellow, somewhat resembling a goblet but irregular. The edges are sometimes chewed by insects. They appear in slender clusters at branch tips. Only one to three open at a time. The 1-inch fruits appear in drooping clusters. Their color changes from green to deep yellow on ripening.

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