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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s. It iseasily grown from cuttings or seeds. Of shrubs the following maybe mentioned: Oestrum nocturnum L., known here as Chinese Ink-berry, and very common in Honolulu, especially in Nuuanu Valley;it is a native of tropical America; others are Cestrum diurnum L.,also called Chinese-Inkberry in Honolulu, and C. aurantiacum Lindl.with yellow flowers. The latter is not common. Of interest is also Datura arborea Linn., the so-called AngelsTrumpet, a small tree with ovate-lanceolate leaves which have themargin entire; the flowers are large, white, trumpet-like, and have amusky odor; the calyx is spathe-like and the limbs of the corolla arelong, facts which distinguish it from Datura suaveolens H. et B. Thelatter has an inflated calyx with five obscure teeth, short corollalimbs, and an angular tube. Both species are probably in cultivation.They are natives of Chile and Peru. Specimens are rather rare inHonolulu, but common on Hawaii from Hilo to Glenwood, alongthe Volcano Road. Plate LXXV.
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Jacaranda ovalifolia R. Br.Flowering branch of the Jacaranda. Bignoniaceae. 191 BIGNONIACEAE Bigxoxia Family. The Bignonia family, which is represented in these Islands by thecultivated species of flowering trees described in the following pages,has also several vines of great beauty well established in the resi-dence section of Honolulu, such as the orange trumpet vine, Pyro-stegia (Bignonia) venusta, Bignonia unguis-cati, Cats-claw Climberor Hug-me-tight, formerly known as Bignonia tweediana; the grace-ful Bignonia jasminoides with pale purplish flowers, and one or twoothers which do not come within the scope of this work. The family belongs decidedly to the tropics, and possesses aboutone hundred genera with four hundred fifty or more species. Tecomaria capensis (Thbg.) Fenzl., supposedly a native of Bra-zil, but found wild all over the Cape of South Africa, cannot wellbe omitted. It is a shrub but more often a low bush with prostraterunners. The flowers are borne in terminal racem

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