340 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



needs to be well sustained by humidity to bear copiously. In 

 Southern Australia flowering during midwinter; the flowers are 

 intensely fragrant, and do not suffer from a few degrees of frost ; 

 hence this plant is of particular horticultural importance, to con- 

 tribute amply to garden-fragrance in winter- time. About Trieste 

 the Loquat is the earliest fruit of the season [Baron von Thuemen], 

 bearing also copiously there. In Greece the fruits ripen already 

 during May. Hemsley mentions this plant among the shrubs and 

 trees, hardy in England, where however it seldom matures its 

 fruits. Seeds must be sown soon after they are ripe. They con- 

 tain much hydrocyanic acid and are therefore only fit for medicinal 

 use. Most important as a honey-plant, flowering so early [Prof. 

 Savastano]. P. villosa, D.C., also yields edible native fruit to the 

 Japanese. Bore profusely in Wicklow [G. Donaldson]. 



Phyllanthus Cheremila, Eoxburgh. (Cicca disticha, Linne.) 



lusular India. A small tree. Hardy in Florida 27 30 7 , where 

 Mr. Reasmer finds it to be a desirable fruit-tree. The berries are 

 small and acid, serving for jam. Mr. L. A. Bernays admits this 

 plant among those recommended in his work on " Cultural industries 

 for Queensland," 1883, having tested it as far south as Moreton- 

 Bay. 



Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, 01. Richard. 



Celery-Pine of Tasmania. A stately tree, often to 60 feet high, 

 with a stem 2 to 6 feet in diameter. The timber is particularly 

 valuable for the masts and spars of ships. It will only grow to 

 advantage in deep forest-valleys. Dwarfed in alpine elevations. 



Phyllocladus trichomanoides, D. Don. 



Celery-Pine of New Zealand ; Maori-name, " Tanehaha." This 

 tree attains a height of 70 feet, with a straight stem reaching 1 3 feet 

 in diameter, and furnishes a pale close-grained timber, strong, 

 heavy and durable, according to Professor Kirk, greatly valued for 

 mine-props, struts, caps, sleepers, water-tanks, bridge-planks and 

 piles, also spars ; the Maoris employ the bark for dyeing red and 

 black and yellow, according to admixtures. It contains from 23 to 

 28 per cent, tannin and is therefore valued by the tanner, fetching 

 a high price [Prof. Kirk]. This species also ascends in a diminutive 

 form to alpine elevations. 



Phyllostachys bambusoides, Siebold. 



Himalayas, China and Japan. A comparatively dwarf Bamboo, 

 but very hardy ; the yellowish canes available for excellent walk- 

 ing-sticks [Griffith]. 



