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seedlings are not uncommon under old trees and root-suckers 

 also appear in some cases. 



Roupala Pohlii Meisn. 



ROUPALA. 







A tall narrow evergreen tree with smooth gray and somewhat mot- 

 tled bark, the young shoots and leaves rusty with numerous woolly hairs, 

 the mature foliage glabrous, glossy and dark green: leaves compound, 

 1 ft. or more long; leaflets 5 to 8 pairs, short-stalked, ovate, acuminate, 

 oblique at base, 4 or 5 in. long, about 2 in. broad, coarsely toothed: 

 flowers yellowish, in erect racemes which are 3 to 5 in. long: perianth 

 with -4 narrow lobes: ovary and style single: fruit a hard 2-valved 

 capsule. Synonym: E. corcovadensis Hort. Family Proteaceae. Brazil. 

 Illustration: Bot. Mag., pi. 6095. 



Of the three or four specimens in California of this strik- 

 ingly handsome plant, the finest is perhaps the tree on the Gil- 

 lespie place at Montecito, near Santa Barbara. This is now 

 13 years old, but was once broken off by the wind; the present 

 height of 30 feet represents the growth of about 7 years. 



The foliage of this tree is unlike that of any other and 

 constitutes its chief charm. The long, compound leaves curve 

 gracefully outward, many of them becoming pendant, and thus 

 the tree is clothed with a shining mantle of green. The young 

 shoots, bronzed throughout with a soft, rusty tomentum, add 

 color to the foliage during the spring months. 



Roupala is a tree for only a few gardens, being somewhat 

 sensitive to frost and easily broken by winds. A warm, shel- 

 tered place should therefore be chosen. It is, moreover, difficult 

 to procure. Experiments with cuttings have so far failed and 

 seeds can be had only by importation from Brazil, Further 

 trials with cuttings should be made, since this method is appar- 

 ently successful in England, the cuttings being "inserted in 

 sand, under glass, with bottom heat" (Nicholson). 



Choisya ternata HBK. 



CHOISYA. 



A compact free-blooming bush, 3 to 5 ft. high (said to reach 10 ft. 

 when trained against warm walls), the young parts minutely hairy: 

 leaves opposite, compound, the common petiole i/ 2 to 2 in. long; leaflets 



