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Graptophyllnm pictum (L.) Griff. 
( Syn. Graptophyllum hortexse Xees.) 
AIorado. 
Plate LXXVIII. 
The name Morado, which is of Spanish origin, is applied to this 
species in the Philippines and for want -of a name in Honolulu ma}' 
be adopted here. 
The Morado belongs to the Acanthus family (Acanthaceae) and 
is an erect branching shrub six to ten feet in height; the leaves are 
opposite, oblong to broadly elliptic, somewhat pointed at both ends, 
four to eight inches long, two to four inches wide, green and vari- 
ously mottled with white or yellowish-white, or dull purple, with 
short leaf-stalks. The two-lipped, dull purple or reddish-purple 
flowers are borne in terminal panicles and are one and a half inches 
long, the upper lip is shortly two-fid, the lower three-lobed, stamens 
two with two small staminodia ; the ovary is four-ovuled. 
The fruit is an oblong, hard, long-stalked capsule. The Morado 
is a native of New Guinea and the neighboring islands, but, owing 
to its variegated leaves, which remind one of the crotons, and the 
rather handsome purple flowers, has been in cultivation in many 
tropical countries, and can be found in Honolulu in a great many 
residential grounds. 
The name Graptophyllum is from the Greek, meaning "writing" 
and "leaves" in allusion to the variously marked leaves. The genus 
consists of four species, natives of Australia and Polynesia. 
Graptophyllum hortense Xees., a horticultural variety of this 
species, has bronze-colored mottled leaves; it occurs sparingly in 
Honolulu. 
RUBIACEAE 
Coffee Family. 
The Coffee family is an exceedingly large one, comprising about 
400 genera with over 5500 species, which occur mainly in the tropics 
and sub-tropical regions. Of introduced genera only a few are 
worth mentioning. Two species of Coffee are under cultivation as 
Coffea arabica L. and Coffea liberica Bull., the latter growing wild 
as an escape from cultivation in the mountains back of Honolulu, 
the former is cultivated extensively in Kona, Hawaii. 
Ornamental species are Rondeletia odorata Jacq., a native of 
