PI. 247. 



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TROPICAL COMBRETUM RECOVERING FROM THE FREEZE IN 

 FLORIDA. (COMBRETUM COMOSUM. SEE S. P. I. NO. 28288.) 



This extremely ornamental flowering shrub in its native home. 

 Mauritius, is never subjected to fio:-t. Its behavior in Miami. 

 Fla.. under a temperature of -20.5 F. was remarkable. 1\^ 

 leaves, normally bright jrreen. turned ashen <rray within 4 V 

 hours, and it was apparently quite dead, but in a month's 

 time it had sent out the new shoots shown in thir- illustration. 

 Resistance to frost is >ho\vn in a variety of way- by strictly 

 tropical ve<retation. (Photographed bv Mr. David Fairchild 

 at Miami. Fla.. March 9, 1917: P20475FS.) 



