1910] Hall: Studies in Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 13 



So far as I know there are but two specimens of this species 

 in California, one at the Gillespie place, Montecito, one in 

 Elysian Park, Los Angeles. Both are noble examples and should 

 incite to further planting. Where a mass of light-colored foliage 

 is desired nothing could be more effective and the fragrance of 

 the banana-scented flowers is very pleasing. 



15. P. phillyraeoides DC. NARROW-LEAVED PITTOSPORUM. 



A graceful tree with habit of the weeping willow but evergreen, 20 

 ft. or more high, the bark smooth and gray on the branches, becoming 

 checked on the trunk: leaves light green, 2 to S 1 /^ in. long, about *4 i n - 

 wide, linear, tapering to the base, acuminate and the slender tips re- 

 curved, entire, equally distributed over the slender pendant twigs, gla- 

 brous: flowers fragrant, pediceled, solitary in the leaf -axils (several in 

 each axil in some Australian specimens), the tube ^4 in. long and the 

 recurved portion % in., yellow: sepals minute: capsule about % in. long, 

 oval, compressed, the base somewhat heart-shaped, yellow, the surface 

 granular. Australian deserts. Illustrations: PI. 1; Maiden, Forest Fl. 

 N. S. W., pi. 4. 



This remarkable tree was introduced perhaps in the seventies 

 but its value has been appreciated only within the last year or 

 two. Eminently adapted to dry places and should be tried in 

 our desert country, where, however, it cannot be expected to 

 reach the size attained in the coast counties. The foliage is too 

 sparse for a good shade tree but its slender, pendant branches 

 recommend it as a substitute for the weeping willow, where an 

 evergreen is desired. Propagation from seeds is effected with 

 some difficulty in California, but young plants are now offered 

 by several of the nurseries at Santa Barbara and Goleta. The 

 abundant root suckers may be transplanted if one goes to a 

 considerable depth in digging them, for this tree is deep-rooted. 

 In Australia a sort of bread is prepared from the pulverized 

 seeds and the leaves are browsed by live stock. 



16. P. bicolor Hook. 



A' small tree, sometimes 40 ft. high in its native habitat, sometimes 

 only a bush, the young twigs hoary or rusty with a close tomentum: 

 leaves 1 or 2 in. long, about % in. wide, linear, acute, entire but the 

 margins rolled back, glabrous above, tomentose beneath: flowers solitary 

 or several in the leaf -axils: petals y 2 in. long, spreading or recurved 

 above, yellow and purple: ovary very hairy: capsules rounded, red and 

 berry-like, ' ' about the size of peas, ' ' somewhat compressed. Australia. 



Rare in cultivation; once grown at Lincoln Park, Oakland. 

 Hardy in southern England. 



