PI. 247. 
TROPICAL COMBRETUM RECOVERING FROM THE FREEZE IN 
FLORIDA. (COMBRETUM COMOSUM. SEE S. P. I. NO. 28288.) 
This extremely ornamental flowering shrub in its native home, 
Mauritius, is never subjected to frost. Its behavior in Miami, 
Fla., under a temperature of 26.5° F. was remarkable. Its 
leaves, normally bright green, turned ashen gray within 48 
hours, and it was apparently quite dead, but in a month's 
time it had sent out the new shoots shown in this illustration. 
Resistance to frost is shown in a variety of ways by strictly 
tropical vegetation. (Photographed by Mr. David Fairchild 
at Miami, Fla., March 9, 1917; P20475FS.) 
