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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he grounds of Dr. Hillebrand who undoubtedlyintroduced it, and others are at Waikiki in the late GovernorCleghorns premises. All species of the Arenga flower only onceduring the term of their existence. Hyophorbe amaricaulis Mart.Bottle Palm. The Bottle Palm reaches a height of sixty feet in its native land,with a bottle shaped trunk fifteen to twenty-four inches in diameternear the base, diminishing slightly upwards and becoming abruptlyconstricted near the base of the leafsheaths. The leafsheaths are somewhat trigonal and grooved on the face.The leaf consists of forty to sixty pairs of segments about eighteeninches long and two broad. The spadix branches in clusters, witha main stalk of about a foot. The fruit is elliptical, oblong; theseed elliptical and about half an inch long. This rather ungainly palm is a native of the Island of Mauritiusand not known to occur wild elsewhere. It is cultivated in Hono-lulu and can be met with quite frequently in private grounds. The Plate XVIII.
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Arenga obtusifolia Mart. Another species of Sugar Palm in Mrs. M. E. Fosters grounds,Nuuanu Avenue. Palmae. 43 specimens in Honolulu are usually less than fifteen feet tall. Twocan be seen at the entrance to the building of the Board of Agri-culture on King Street. Hyophorbe Verschaffeltii Wendl. is another species belonging tothe genus Hyophorbe which is peculiar to the Islands of the Mas-carene group. It differs considerably from the Bottle Palm, mainlyin the trunk, which does not reach such a height nor such a diameterand does not seem to bulge, at least not to the extent of the bottlepalm, and then only a few feet above the ground. The pinnae haveno prominent lateral nerves as in the former species, and the petiolehas a distinct yellow line on the back. The drupe is cylindrical-oblong, the seed subcylindrical and an inch long. This species isquite rare in Honolulu; the writer knows of only four maturespecimens, one in the grounds of The Roselawn on King Streetnear Keeaumoku Street

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