66 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



Another passion flower produces a dull purple fruit of 

 the size of a goose egg, which has a ssimilar acid pulp, less 

 delicate in flavor but prized by many; it is known as the 

 water lemon. Still another species, distinguished as the 

 sweet water lemon, has a fruit somewhat larger and of a 

 rich yellow color when ripe, tlie pulp, however, wanting in 

 acidity and so ncjt highly esteemed.' 



Other fruits that will be found in lionolulu are the 

 South American mammee apple, a fine tree with 'handsome 

 foliage ; the pc^megranate. i)lanted as an ornamental shrub 

 rather than for the sake of the fruit; the pine apple in nu- 

 merous varieties," the loquat, the Java plum and so-called 

 Spanish cherry (both Myrtaceous), and the familiar peach. 

 V^ery few of the fruits of the temperate zone will grow in 

 Honolulu. Apples, pears, plums, cherries, as well as such 

 berries as the raspberry, blackberry, currant, gooseberrv, and 

 huckleberry are conspicuous b}' their absence — strawberries, 

 however, may be had any montli in the year, and mav be said 

 to be in season nine months out of the twelve. 



One of the finest exotic shade trees is the samang, com- 

 monly known in Honolulu as the monkey-pod tree. It is 

 one of the numerous leguminous trees that have been intro- 

 duced, most of them belonging to the acacia (^r to the cassia 

 group, and having accordingly compound or decompound 

 leaves. This is a great spreading tree of rapid growth, 

 throwing out branches as near the ground as circumstances 

 will permit. Like many other plants of the family, it has 

 the habit of folding together its leaflets at night, so that after 

 six o'clock it presents a peculiar wilted appearance, quite in 

 contrast with its ordinary aspect, which is one of exuberant 

 vitality. The foliage may become a little ragged in winter, 

 but only preparatory to a more glorious rehabilitation, which 

 culminates witli its blossoming time, when for weeks the 



