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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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flowers are pale lemon yellow, usually in pairs or singleon axillary pedicels. The pod is about four inches long, half an inchwide, flattened, pointed, and contains six to ten seeds. This Bauhinia is a native of India, especially common in thenorthwest Provinces and extending throughout India to China, Cey-lon and tropical Africa. It is usually cultivated for ornamental purposes and flowers mostof the year. In Honolulu it is occasionally met with, but has notbeen planted as commonly as Bauhinia monandra; plants may befound in Kapiolani Park and on the corner of Punahou Street andWilder Avenue, opposite the Pleasanton Hotel. The wood is tough and close-grained, but when full-grown it isvery soft. As a medicine the plant is antidysenteric and useful inliver complaints. A decoction of the root-bark is useful in inflam-mation of the liver, while the dried buds and young flowers are pre-scribed in dysenteric affections. From the bark the natives of Indiaprepare a durable fibre. Plate XLI.
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Bauhinia monandra Kurz. St. Thomas Tree.Flowering and fruiting specimen. Leguminosae. 99 Bauhinia monandra Kurz. St. Thomas Tree. Plate XLI. This Bauhinia is a small or medium-sized tree with long, spread-ing branches. The leaves are from four to five inches, both in lengthand width, and cleft about half way to the base, the lobes are roun-ded, the base is cordate. The racemes are few-flowered and axillary.The corolla is about four inches in diameter, the petals are spread-ing, narrowly obovate, long-clawed, pink-purple with numerousdarker dots, the upper petal is much darker than the others. It hasonly one single stamen, hence the specific name. The pod is stout,thick, about eight inches long and one inch wide. It is probably a native of tropical America, but is now culti-vated for ornamental purposes in many tropical countries. In Hono-lulu it is commonly met with in parks and private grounds. Cassia siamea Lamk. (Syn. Cassia florida Vahl.) Kassod Tree. Plate XLII. The Kassod Tree i

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