414 : The Botanical Gazette. [December, 
the monkey-pod (Pithecolobium samang), tamarind, various 
species of Bauhinia and Cathartocarpus. One species of the 
latter with great drooping bunches of golden yellow flowers 
and enormous cylindrical pods three or four feet long, rivals 
the Poinciana when in full flower. 
Mingled with these are a great number of shrubs and trees 
with showy flowers or leaves, most of them more or less 
familiar to the stranger, either from pictures or from green- 
house specimens. Several species of Musa are grown, | 
and when sheltered from the wind are most beautiful; but 
ordinarily the leaves are torn into rags by the wind. The 
tall and graceful M. sapientium. has been largely supplanted 
by the much less beautiful Chinese banana, M. Cavendishii, 
which is short and stumpy in growth, but enormously pro- 
lific. The related traveler’s tree (Ravenala Madagascariensis), 
is a Common and striking feature of many Hawaiian gardens. 
Of the many showy flowering shrubs, the beautiful Hibiscus 
Rosa-Sinensis is one of the commonest, and is used exten- 
sively for hedges. One of the most striking hedges in the 
city, however, is the famous one at Puna Hou college, which 
is 500 feet long and composed of night-blooming cereus. I 
was not fortunate enough to see this when it was in full 
flower, but I saw a photograph of it when it was estimated 
that there were about 8,000 flowers at one time. 
Of the fruit trees ordinarily grown, the following may be 
mentioned. The mango is a very handsome tree with dense 
dark green foliage and masses of yellow and reddish fruit on 
long hanging stalks. The bread-fruit tree is common, both 
cultivated and wild, and is a very beautiful tree of moderate 
size with leaves looking like immense fig-leaves, and the fruit 
like a large osage orange. I saw no ripe fruit, and so had 
not an opportunity of testing its quality. Guavas of different 
_ Varieties are extremely common both wild and cultivated, and 
the various fruits of the whole citrus tribe grow well. e€ 
few specimens of temperate fruits were, for the most part, 
much inferior to those of the United States. Of the fruits 
that did not strike my fancy, at least at first, was the alligator 
pear (Persea gratissima), a big green or purple pear-shape 
fruit with an immense single seed. The pulp is somewhat 
waxy in consistence and very oily. Itis eaten as a salad, and 
very much relished by the islanders, but the taste is acquired. 
The curious papaya (Carica papaya) is another fruit which did 
not appeal to my palate. Its big orange fruit, not unlike 2 
