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TILIACEAE 
Linden Family. 
Represented by the following species only : 
Berrya Amonilla Roxb. 
Trixcomali Wood. 
Plate LIV. 
The genus Btrrya, named after the late Dr. Andrew Berry, a 
Aladras botanist, consists only of a single species, here described and 
figured. 
It is a large tree with ovate pointed alternate leaves which are 
heart-shaped at the base and five to seven nerved. The large flower- 
ing panicles are terminal as well as axillary. The calyx is bell-shaped 
and irregularly three to five lobed, while the corolla consists of five 
spatulate petals ; stamens are many and are inserted on a short torus. 
The fruit is a papery capsule which opens into three to four valves; 
each valve is two-winged. The seeds are hairy and when touched 
sting like the minute hair of the prickly pear. 
The Trincomali If ood is a native of South India, Burmah and 
Ceylon, but is cultivated in many tropical countries. 
In Honolulu the writer knows of two trees; one is in the Govern- 
ment Nursery grounds on King Street, where it was evidently planted 
by the first Commissioner of Agriculture, Mr. Jaeger. The uses of 
the wood are manifold. The heartwood is dark red, close grained, is 
apt to check, but otherwise quite durable. Its weight is forty-eight 
to sixty-five pounds per cubic foot. In India the wood is employed 
for carts, agricultural implements, and even for small boats, while 
in Ceylon it is employed for building and other technical purposes on 
account of its toughness and flexibility. In Burmah a fibre is made 
from the bark. 
MALVACEAE 
Hibiscus Family. 
Some of the most ornamental plants found in Honolulu belong 
to this family. Most of the many-colored species of Hibiscus which 
are employed as hedge plants are the result of patient labor on the 
part of many Honolulans, as for example, W. M. Giffard, G. P. 
Wilder, A. Gartley, J. Cummins and others, while Mr. \ . Holt of 
the United States Experiment Station has devoted a great deal of his 
