This variety has white and mauve flowers on the same tree. There 
should be at least one Lagerstroemia in every Florida garden. 
JACARANDA SP. (Bignoniaceae). I regard the JACARANDA as 
the most beautiful blue-flowered tree I have ever seen, but the more 
I read about the various varieties, the more confused I become. There- 
fore in presenting several species herewith, I do so with tongue in 
cheek because they do not bloom until about 7 or 8 years old and 
none of my seedlings has reached that age. First comes JACARANDA 
No. 1030 raised from seed from Guatemala. The only species de- 
scribed by Standley for that region are J. copaia with very large leaves, 
flower sprays to 16 inches long, making it “one of the most beautiful 
and showy trees of southern Central America;” and J. ficifolia with 
flower sprays “mostly” 2 to 3 inches long. Second comes J. chelonia, 
from Uruguay, described by Bailey as having a globular shape, with 
large blue flowers in sprays a foot long. Third comes J. acutifolia and 
close behind it J. mimosaefolia, which may or may not be identical, 
some of the reference books to the contrary notwithstanding. Album 
Floristico, published by the Brazilian government, says the flowers 
are violet-purplish, “covering the rounded crown of the tree which does 
not lose its leaves at the time of flowering ( sides tae to December 
in Rio).” Fifth comes J. sagraeana from Cuba with lar ger leaflets and 
“lax panicles of attractive bluish flowers.” Besides the foregoing, I 
have in my collection at least five other JAcaRnANnDAs which show even 
in their juvenile stages some differences. Somebody needs to write 
a monograph on JacarRANDA. There are two big trees in Palm Beach 
that were distributed by the USDA some years ago as a “red flowered” 
type, but these have never bloomed even after 10 years and the owner 
talks of cutting them down. There is a big tree in the city park in 
Fort Pierce which I think is a Jacaranpa, but it has never bloomed 
and is now 380 feet high and its foliage is much coarser than most. In 
my opinion, we need in Florida a Jacaranpa that carries its leaves 
through the winter. One or two of my species have done this in 
juvenile form; if they continue to do so when mature and also produce 
those gorgeous blue flower clusters, they should become extremely 
popular. Most of the JaAcaranpa trees with which I am familiar in 
Florida, drop all their leaves through the winter or lose so much of 
their foliage that they are ratty and unattractive at the particular time 
of the year we are entertaining our visitors. And a tree smaller in 
stature would be preferable. In Trinidad their native J. coerulea is a 
small tree with white-throated bluish violet flowers that come in the 
early months of the year. I had seed once but it failed to grow. 
TABEBUIA CHRYSANTHA. This, believe it or not, is a variety 
that has purple flowers. All the reference books available to me say 
that T. chrysantha has yellow flowers and perhaps the name is incor- 
rectly used here. However, the seed came to me from Mr. Stadler 
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