1428 



HAKEA 



HALESIA 



moderate frost and are therefore well adapted to the 

 drier parts of the South and Southwest. In California 

 they are grown as far north as Sacramento. One of 

 these, H. laurina, produces strikingly handsome fls.; 

 H. ellipHca is prized for the bronze color of its young 

 foliage; while the spiny-leaved species are serviceable 

 for planting in pubhc parks or in any place where it 

 is necessary for shrubs to protect themselves from 

 pedestrians or vandals. 



Hakeas ma}' be propagated by cuttings taken from 

 ripened shoots but they are almost universally grown 

 from seeds. These are gathered from year-old capsules 

 which are very hard and must be dried for some time 

 before they will open. The seeds are sown in winter or 

 early spring in the ordinary mi.xture of sand, leaf-mold, 

 and loam; they germinate easily, even withoui, heat. 

 The young seedlings are pricked off into boxes and held 

 in the lathhouse for a season before planting in the 

 open. For best results hakeas should be grown in 

 light, well-drained soil and need but httle water after 

 they are once established; much moisture is injurious 

 except during the summer months. 



A. Lvs. I4i"- or more wide. 

 B. Margins of lvs. flat, entire. 

 saligna, Knight. A pale shrub, to 8 ft. high, glabrous 

 except the young shoots: lvs. oblong or lanceolate, 

 3-6 in. long, obtuse, often callous-tipped, tapering to 

 a short petiole, pinnately veined: fl.-clusters white, 

 small but numerous, dense, sessile; corolla glabrous, 

 recurved: fr. about 1 in. long, y^r^in. broad, with 

 short incurved beak, roughish. 



laurina, R. V>t.(H. cucalyptmdes, Meissn.).SEAURCHiN. 

 Fig. 1780. Tall shrub, to 30 ft., and tree-like in Austral. : 

 lvs. elUptic or lanceolate, 5 or 6 in. long, J-2-I in. wide, 

 tapering to a petiole; princi- 

 pal veins 3-7,nearly parallel : 

 fls. crimson, in a globular 

 involucrate head, lM-2 in. 

 thick, from which the numer- 

 ous showy golden yellow 

 styles project 1 in. or so in 

 every direction: fr. ovoid, 

 about 1% in. long by ^;iin. 

 broad, short-beaked. B.M. 

 7127. G.C. II. 23:149.— 

 The only species with showy 

 fls. here described; equally 

 satisfactory for shrubberies 

 and for hedges; always 

 highly ornamental. In Italy 

 it has been called "the 

 glory of the gardens of the 

 Riviera." 



BE. Margins of lvs. undulate. 

 eUiptica, R. Br. Fig. 1781. 



Erect shrub, 6-15 ft.: lvs. 



oval or elUptic, nearly 



sessile, 2-35/2 in. long, 1-1 J^ 

 in. wide, undulate-margined; veins 5-7, parallel, con- 

 nected by cross- veinlets : fls. white, in globose sessile 

 clusters: fr. ovoid, 1-114 in. long, ^^in. broad, obhquely 

 beaked. — FoUage by far the finest of all intro. kinds, 

 the rich bronze color of the young shoots hardly rivaled 

 among other shrubs. The compact, erect habit makes 

 it eminently suitable for general lawn and shrubbery 

 planting. 



AA. Lvs. or their lobes ]/sin. or less wide, mostly 



terete. 



B. Lf. -veins several: lvs. linear, flat. 



ulicina, R. Br. Shrub with erect branches and 



dense foliage resembling ulex: lvs. narrowly 



hnear, acute, flat, entire, 1-8 in. long, rarely 



over J-sin. wide, prominently 1-3-nerved beneath: 



1780. Hakea laurina. ( X 



fls. very email, glabrous: caps, mostly under Hin. long, 

 the beak short and straight. Var. carinata, F. Muell. 

 (H. carinata, F. Muell.). Lvs. mostly 1-nerved beneath, 

 nerveless above. 



BB. Lf. -veins none. 



suaveolens, R. Br. {H. pectinata, Colla). Rounded 

 shrub, 8-15 ft.: lvs. 2-4 in. long, terete, with rigid 

 spine-Uke tip, occasionally entire, usually branched 

 into 1-5 rigid terete lobes of unequal lengths: pedicels 

 and perianth glabrous; fls. white, fragrant: fr. ovoid, 

 about 1 in. long by ?iin. broad, narrowed 

 at apex and with a small conical horn 

 near the end of 1 or both of the valves. 

 — Easily grown, drought-resistant, self- 

 protective, and therefore a favorite for 

 depot grounds, pubhc parks, impene- 

 trable hedges, and 

 the hke. Slakes a 

 suitable covering 

 for dry hillsides, 

 although not 

 deep-rooted and 

 sometimes in- 

 chned to become 

 top-heavy. 



acicularis, R. 178I. Hakea elliptica. (XH) 



Br. Tall shrub, 



more slender than the preceding : mature twigs glab- 

 rous: lvs. awl-hke, simple and entire, 1-3 in. long: 

 pedicels white, silky; the coroUa glabrous: fr. ovoid, 

 about 1 in. long, fully Jijin. broad, rough, narrowed to a 

 thick beak, each valve with a conic brown horn near 

 apex. — Used for purposes indicated under H. suaveolens. 



gibbosa, Cav. Spreading shrub, 6-10 ft., with char- 

 acters of H. acicularis but twigs and young lvs. short- 

 hirsute and fr. larger, about IH in. long, nearly 1 in. 

 broad, abruptly narrowed to a short oblique beak, 

 similarly horned. Bot. Cook's First Voy. 266. 



pugioniformis, Cav. Near H. acicularis and H. 

 gibbosa but to 20 ft. high and corolla as well as pedicels 

 pubescent: fr. much more slender, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, 1 in. long by J^in. broad, rough around the 

 middle, with an obhquely transverse crest, each valve 

 tapering to a slender point. L. B.C. 4:353. Bot. Cook's 

 First Voy. 265. — Often labeled H. suaveolens in nur- 

 series but distinguished from that by the simole lvs. 

 and thicker frs. 



H. aquifdlia, ia a garden name sometimes applied to H. saligna. 

 — H. cyclocdrpa, Lindl. Foliage as in H. laurina but lvs. and fr. 

 larger, the fl. -heads not involucrate: corolla silky-pubescent. Once 

 offered by Franceschi. — H. muUilineata, Mcissn. Related to H. 

 laurina: If.-veins more numerous: fl.-clusters oblong: fr. only J^sin. 

 broad. G.C. III. 19:85 (var.). Reported but apparently never 

 intro. — H. nitida, R. Br. Lvs. bright green, oblong, entire or 

 toothed: fls. white, in stalked clusters: fr. 1 in. long by ^^in. broad. 

 B.M. 2246. — H. undulata. R. Br. Lvs. glabrous, obovate or rarely 

 lanceolate: fls. small, in axillary clusters: fr. recurved at base, 1 }i 

 in. long by ^4in. broad, distinctly beaked. — H. vdria. R. Br. Some 

 lvs. with nearly terete lobes, then resembling H. suaveolens, but 

 varying to flat and holly-like, 1-2 in. long, obscurely veined or 

 veinless, always tapering at the base: fls. in small clusters, the 

 rachis villous, pedicels and small corolla glabrous: fr. 5iin. long by 

 Hin. broad. Offered by Franceschi. 



Harvey Monroe Hall. 

 HALESIA (Stephen Hale, 1677-1761, author of a 

 famous work on "Vegetable Statics"). Syn. Mohr- 

 odendron. Styracdcese. Silver -Bell. 

 Snowdrop-Tree, Trees or large shrubs 

 grown for their handsome white flowers, 

 appearing in si>ring. 



1782. Halesia Carolina. (XM) 



