are very tough, flexible and whip-like. It is much planted also as an 
ornamental tree because of its handsome, rather large white to rose- 
colored flowers. In appearance the tree much resembles the LINDEN 
(Tilia sp.) but the bloom is much showier. 
MURRAYA PANICULATA. (Rutaceae). CoMMON JASMIN- 
ORANGE. A handsome evergreen shrub or small tree with bright green, 
shining leaves and bearing several times a year a profusion of small, 
sweetly fragrant white flowers. Ordinarily 8 feet, it may become 20 
feet. Because it stands trimming well, it is often used for shrubbery 
around homes. It flowers when small. 
TRICHILIA HIRTA and TRICHILIA PALLIDA. (Meliaceae). 
The flowers of most of the Trichilias are not showy, but a few of them 
are attractive and many are quite fragrant. Here are two Central Ameri- 
can varieties that bear small white flowers in large panicles and should 
succeed as street trees with us because they thrive in either wet or dry 
soil. The thin pinnate leaves, about 2 feet long, are made up of 9 to 
21 sharp-pointed, dark green leaflets. T. pallida has a tendency to be 
shrubby. T. hirta is called “broomstick tree” in Puerto Rico where its 
young stems are cut for that purpose. A few of the 130 varieties of 
Trichilia come from Africa where T. splendida has “flowers fairly 
large, white, very fragrant,” and T. volkensi “is conspicuous . . . 
appears to flower the whole year around.” T. emetica is called “a very 
handsome tree . . . The creamy white flowers are produced in crowd- 
ed clusters.” 
SPONDIAS LUTEA (Anacardiaceae). YELLOW Mompin. A 
small West Indian fruit tree of which Marie C. Neal’s “In Honolulu 
Gardens” says: “When the yellow, oval fruits, each an inch or two long, 
are hanging in clusters from the branches of the broad-crowned, 
rough-barked ‘hog plum,’ the tree is especially attractive. But the 
fruit dces not have an attractive odor. Though the flavor of some 
varieties is aromatic and pleasant, that of others resembles, as Mac- 
millan says, an ‘exceeedingly bad mango.’ Some are eaten raw; some 
are preserved. . . . From amongst compound leaves, white, frag- 
rant flowers grow in long clusters.” 
PITHECELLOBIUM PRUINOSUM. (Mimoscacae). SNow- 
woop AprEs-Earrinc. A shrub or small tree from eastern Australia 
bearing numerous globe-shaped clusters 14 inches in diameter of 
white flowers with numerous projecting stamens. F. Manson Bailey 
in “The Queensland Flora” calls it “a beautiful tree.” The name 
“pruninosum” means frosted or powdered, given to this plant because 
of the rusty sheen of the young branches, the foliage and the flowers. 
The seed pods are several inches long, much twisted. 
PITHECELLOBIUM BREVIFOLIUM. HvaJILLO-EARRING. 
This ornamental evergreen bushy tree that ranges from 18 to 25 
