164 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



14422 to 14'131— Continued. 



14423. Cheirodendron gaudichaudii. 



Native name Ohipa. A tree 30 to 50 feet high. The natives prepare a bkie 

 dye from the bark and leaves. 



14424. Maha sandwicensis. 



Native name Lama. Grows to a height of from 20 to 40 feet. 



14425. Caesalpinia kauaiensis. 



Native name Vhiuhi. A low shrub 3 to 4 fee 



14426. Erythrina monosperma. 



Nati\e name WUiwlli. An ornamental tree 20 to 25 feet high, with short, 

 thick tiunk and spreading crown. The tree loses its leaves in late summer, 

 and in the spring before the new leaves are out scarlet flowers appear. The 

 wood is soft and corklike. 



14427. Dracaena aurea. 



. Native name Halapepe. A glabrous tree 20 to 25 feet high, from the wood 

 of which the natives used to carve their idols, 



14428. • Myrsine lassertiana. 



Native name Kolea. A tree 20 to 50 feet high. The natives used to extract 

 a red dye from the Imrk. 



14429. Alphitonia ponderosa. 



Native name Kauwila. A tall tree, often attaining 50 to 83 feet. The wood 

 is remarkable for close grain, hardness, and heavy weight, on which account 

 the natives prefeired it for making spears, mallets for beating kapa, and other 

 tools; turns black with age. 



14430. Do DON a ea viscosa. 

 Native name AaUi. 



14431. Myoporum sandwicensis. 



' ' Native name Naeo. English name ' bastard sandalwood. ' Tree 20 to 30 feet 

 high. The wood of this tree, most so the roots, becomes fragrant on dry- 

 ing, with an odor resembling that of sandalwood, whence its P^nglish name. 

 After the exhaustion of the true sandalwood it was exported for some time to 

 China as a substitute." {Hillebrand.) 



14432. Gerbera jamesoni. Barberton daisy. 



From Lourenc/o Marquez, East Africa. Presented ,by Mr. A. E. Graham- 

 Lawrence, thru Hon. W. Stanley HoUis, United States consul. Received July 

 14, 1905. 



14433. (Undetermined.) "Lemoncito." 



From Manila, P. I. Received thru Capt. George P. Ahern, chief of the Bureau 

 of Forestry, Manila Bureau of Agriculture, July 17, 1905. 



"This is a small plant, the height of which does not exceed one and one-half of 

 that of a man, and is known only by the name of 'lemoncito.' It usually has about 

 live very leafy branches. Its trunk is nearly 20 centimeters in diameter, of a light- 

 yellow color, with blackish spots hardly perceptible, and of a tine fibrous texture. 

 It is not very well known by the common people. Its branches are slender and 

 produce leaves in groups of three, the middle one benig the largest; in the growth of 

 the leaves are found thorns somewhat pronounced; the groups of leaves are arranged 

 in alternating order on either side of the branch up to the end. Its trunk has no 

 odor, but its fruit has an agreeal^le odor somewhat like maraschino. They appear 

 between the groups of leaves at the time of opening of the calyx of a flower from 

 which they come, and are sometimes found in clusters and sometimes single. In the 

 month of May this plant produces fruit in abundance and they ripen in a few days. 



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