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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natives of tropical andwarm regions. Besides Graptophyllum pictum, described below,there are in cultivation Thunbergia erecta (Benth.) And., an erectglabrous shrub with a slender four-angled stem; the white flowersare axillary and solitary; Thunbergia grandiflora (Rottb. et Willd.)Roxb., a large, coarse, somewhat woody vine, with large, axillaryflowers which may be solitary or arranged in long pendulous race-mes ; the corolla is of a pale blue; it is a native of India. Barleria cristata L. is a much-branched shrub with violet flowersand two persistent green sepals, which are laciniately toothed. It isa native of India, and is usually grown as a hedge. It grows freelyfrom cuttings. Sanchezia nobilis Hook., an erect shrub, is also cultivated; itis a native of Ecuador. Of the family Scrophulariaceac, Russelia juncea Zucc, the CoralFlower, an erect, nearly leafless plant, with angled stem and brightred tubular flowers, is often planted on rockeries. It is a native ofMexico. Flate LXXVIII.
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Graptophyllum pictum ( L.) Griff.Flowering branch of the green leaved variety. Acanthaceae-Rubiaceae. 199 Graptophyllnm pictum (L.) Griff. ( Syn. Graptophyllum hortexse Xees.) AIorado. Plate LXXVIII. The name Morado, which is of Spanish origin, is applied to thisspecies in the Philippines and for want-of a name in Honolulu ma)be adopted here. The Morado belongs to the Acanthus family (Acanthaceae) andis an erect branching shrub six to ten feet in height; the leaves areopposite, oblong to broadly elliptic, somewhat pointed at both ends,four to eight inches long, two to four inches wide, green and vari-ously mottled with white or yellowish-white, or dull purple, withshort leaf-stalks. The two-lipped, dull purple or reddish-purpleflowers are borne in terminal panicles and are one and a half incheslong, the upper lip is shortly two-fid, the lower three-lobed, stamenstwo with two small staminodia; the ovary is four-ovuled. The fruit is an oblong, hard, long-stalked capsule. The Moradois a

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