20 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



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Aotinidia callosa, Lindley. 



Japan. This climber is praised by L. Boehmer for its gooseberry- 

 like fruits of fig-taste, but only consumable after frost. 



Actinotus Helianthi, Labillardire. 



South-Eastern Australia. A perennial herb, enduring slight frost, 

 which might be utilised like the Edelweiss, Leontopodium alpinum 

 (Cassini) for unfading wreaths and other decorative designs. 



Adansonia digitata, Linn& 



Warm and hot regions of Africa, fully to 23 South. Quite hardy 

 down to the tropic of Capricorn in East Australia [Edgar]. The 

 Boabab or Monkey-bread tree. One of the most colossal trees of the 

 globe as regards stem-diameter, which reaches sometimes 30 feet, 

 while the branches may spread out to 150 feet. The soon drying 

 pulp of the fruit is of pleasant acid taste. A similar species is A. 

 Gregorii (F. v. M.) from North- Western Australia ; its degree of 

 hardiness has not yet been ascertained. Mr. Aeneas Gunn writes that 

 no one through hundreds of miles where this tree grows has ever seen 

 a dead " Goutystem-tree." 



Adenostenmm nitidum, Persoon. (Gomortega nitida, Ruiz and Pavon.) 



Southern Chili, where this stately tree passes by the appellations 

 " Queule, Nuble and Aracua." Wood durable and beautifully streaked. 

 Fruit edible. Gomortega is the elder genus. 



Adesniia balsamica, Bertero. 



The " Jarilla" of Chili. A small shrub remarkable for exuding a 

 fragrant balsam of some technic value [Philippi]. 



JEgiceras majus, Gaertner. 



Southern Asia, Polynesia, Northern and Eastern Australia. This 

 spurious Mangrove-tree extends far south into New South Wales. 

 It may be employed for preventing the washing away of mud by the 

 tide, and for thus consolidating shores subject to inundation by sea- 

 floods. 



JEgle marmelos, Correa. 



The Bael-Tree of India, ascending to 4,000 feet. Finally 40 feet 

 high. Has matured its fruit near Rockhampton ; the plant is readily 

 propagated from root-cuttings and is otherwise of easy cultivation. 

 [J. Edgar]. Fruit of medicinal, particularly antidysenteric value. 

 The root and the leaves are also used medicinally [Dr. G. Watt]. 



sepiaria, De Candolle. (Citrus trlfoliata^ Linn.) 

 Japan. Much grown as a hedge-shrub in its native country and 

 in China ; also reared as stock for grafting on it the orange-plant. 



