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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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-ing branches are very long, often six feet or more, and droop to theground when loaded with fruit, as can be seen in the accompanyingillustration. When in flower this palm is an object of great beauty,which is enhanced by the handsome bluish symmetrical fronds. It is a native of southern California, where it grows in canyonsalong dry water-courses. In Honolulu there are only two specimensin cultivation; the one figured was introduced by Air. Jordan, inwhose grounds it grows, the other, a less handsome specimen, maybe seen in Kapiolani Park near the race track. Pritchardia pacifica Seem, et Wendl. Fiji Fax Palm. Plate IX. The genus Pritchardia numbers about sixteen species, twelve ofwhich are natives of the Hawaiian Islands, where the writer hasdiscovered seven new species, five of which have been described byDr. Beccari of Florence, and one by the writer, the remaining onewill be described in the near future in a monograph on the Ha-waiian species of that interesting genus. Plate IX.
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Pritchardia pacifica Seem, et Wendl.Fiji Fan Palms. Palmae. 25 Pritcharia pacifica was first described in 1861 and the genusnamed in honor of W. T. Pritchard, author of Polynesian Remin-iscences, who was also British Consul in Fiji. The Fiji Fan Palm seldom attains a height of thirty feet, itstrunk is straight, unarmed, and ten to twelve inches in diameter atthe base. The crown is globular, and composed of about twentyleaves, the petioles of which are covered at the base with a massof brown fibre. The blade of the leaf is fan-shaped, usuallyfour and a half feet long, and three and a half feet wide. Theflowers issue from the axils of the leaves and are enveloped in severalvery fibrous, flaccid spathes. The inflorescence never appears belowthe crown, but always in the axils of the upper leaves. The fruitis perfectly round, half an inch in diameter, and when mature is ofa blackish color. The Fijians make the leaves into fans which are only used bythe chiefs, wThile the common people have

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