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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y were classed with theMyrtaceae, with which it has, however, little in common. It ismuch closer to the Mangrove Family (Rhizophoraceae), through Bar-ringtonia on one side and to the Blattiaceae through the genus Foeti-dia on the other. The genus Barringtonia only is represented by two species. Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Km-z. (Syn. Barringtonia speciosa Forst.) Plate LXVII. The Barringtonia asiatica is a large, handsome tree with thick,leathery, glossy, bright green wedge-shaped leaves which are glab-rous; the flowers are quite conspicuous, having four white petals andnumerous crimson-tipped stamens, resembling a brush; the fruit hasthe shape of a four-sided pyramid, is quite large and consists, whendry, of a solid fibrous case, which is smooth outside and contains oneseed. This fibrous case enables the fruits to float, and as it is quitethick and solid, it protects the seed from coming into contact withsalt water, thus keeping its germinating power from being destroyed. Plate LXVII.
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Barringtonia asiatica (L.) Kurz.Fruiting branch. Lecythidaceae-Combretaceae. 165 The tree is decidedly a beach tree and forms extensive beachforests in some of the Pacific islands. It depends on the ocean cur-rent for its dispersal, hence its wide distribution. It is a native of theAndaman Islands, Singapore, Ceylon. Guam, Samoa, the Philippinesand other countries bordering on the Pacific, but not of Hawaii. In the Moluccas a lamp-oil is expressed from the seeds, while adrug is prepared from the bark; the active principle appears to be avolatile oil combined with resin ; the drug is a narcotic and is usedby the natives of the various countries above-mentioned in stupefyingfish. The dry fruits are also gathered by the natives and used asfishing floats, in place of cork. There are quite a number of treesplanted about Honolulu, the largest occurring in Mrs. Fostersgrounds on Nuuanu Avenue. A few have been planted on BeretaniaStreet and a fine specimen may be seen in the grounds of the Un

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