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large, on long stalks, and black when mature. The tree grows to 
large dimensions. It is a native of New South Wales, but can be 
found in cultivation in both tropical and subtropical countries. The 
wood is occasionally used for timber. Honolulu has only a tew speci- 
mens, the best ones occurring in the grounds of the Board of Agri- 
culture and Forestry on King and Keeaumoku Streets. Mention 
must be made of Heritiera littoralis Dryand, of which there are only 
about two trees in the Territory, one a straggly looking specimen in 
St. Louis College grounds near the entrance. It is a medium-sized 
tree with dark red heartwood which is very hard and has reddish 
medullary rays. The leaves are leathery, elliptical-oblong and en- 
tire. The flowering panicles are shorter than the leaves, the flowers 
very small. The ripe carpels, one to three, are woody, glabrous, 
shining, and have a strong sharp keel. It is a tropical seashore tree 
and is distributed from Burmah to the Andaman Islands, Cevlon, 
the tropics of the old world and Australia. The wood is used for 
houseposts and rafters and also for firewood. It has received the 
name Looking-Glass Tree by Europeans, owing to the dense silverv 
hairs which cover the under surface of the leaves. 
Brachychiton discolor F. v. Muell. 
Plate LXIII. 
This peculiar species of the genus Brachychiton is ordinarily a 
tall tree with the young shoots tomentose. The leaves are broadly 
cordate, shortly pointed at the apex, angular or shortly and irregu- 
larly rive or seven lobed, glabrous above, whitish underneath, with a 
close tomentum, and are about four to six inches in diameter. The 
flowers are borne clustered in the axils of the upper leaves. The 
calyx is about one and a half inches long, bell-shaped and colored 
(the petals being wanting), tomentose inside and out, and is divided 
to the middle into broad lobes with induplicate margins. The fruit 
consists of follicles which are woody in this species, about four to 
six inches long, pointed, and are densely rusty-tomentose outside. 
This species, which has no common name, is a native of Australia, 
occurring in the northern part of that continent, in Queensland and 
New South Wales. In Honolulu there is only a single specimen ; it 
was introduced by the late Mr. Jaeger, in whose premises it grows. 
It flowers in the late fall. 
