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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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gs. There are. however,much more desirable trees for avenue plantings which shed theirleaves either not at all or at most for a very short period and be-sides have beautiful large showy flowers. The Siris Tree yields a gum which is not soluble in water butis jelly-like and resembles gum arable, and is often used as an adult-erant for pure gum. The bark is used for tanning, while an oil ex-tracted from the seeds is considered useful in leprosy. The seedsand leaves are employed medicinally in ophthalmia, and the flowersare used by the natives of India as a cooling medicine, being appliedexternally on boils and eruptions. Powdered seeds have been ad-ministered successfully in scrofulous enlargements of the glands, andpowdered root-bark is used when the gums are ulcerated and spongy.The Siris Tree is a rapid grower and is content with almost anykind of soil. It flourishes best, however, on embankments and road-sides. Large trees can be found in Honolulu, one at Pawaa Junction Plate XXXIV.
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Albizzia Lebbek (L.) Benth.A large Siris Tree in Moanalua Gardens. Leguminosae. 85 on King Street and others at Moanalua, while smaller ones are scat-tered all over town. It has a large sapwood which is white, while the heartwood isdark brown, hard and somewhat mottled. It seasons well, is workedeasily and takes a good polish. It is extensively used for variouspurposes, even for buildings, furniture, etc. In Northern India it isconsidered unlucky to use the wood in house-building. Albizzia saponaria (Lour.) Bl.Plate XXXV. Albizzia saponaria is a small tree attaining a height of thirty toforty feet. The leaves are twelve to sixteen inches long, and consistof four pinnae, the upper of which are longer than the lower andare composed of four to eight ovate leaflets, gradually becominglarger towTards the end of the pinnae. The flowering panicles areterminal, pubescent and spreading. The flowers are white, crowdedin heads at the ends of the branchlets. The pod is thin, flat, up toseven inch

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