“The ‘candlestick senna’ is perhaps our showiest species with its long 
candalabra-like spikes of deep, orange-yellow flowers with black base. 
Much cultivated in the tropical zone of Costa Rica. Grows in sand or 
loam; rather moist ground suits it. My choice among the numerous 
native and exotic species.” 
CASSIA SUFFRUTICOSA. A bushy small tree bearing a pro- 
fusion of yellow flowers off and on throughout the year. It is very 
attractive when in bloom and its bright evergreen foliage adds to the 
landscape contrast. 
H.AEMATOXYLON CAMPECHIANUM. (Caesalpinieae ) 
Locwoop. A rather small tree from the West Indies and Central 
America, famous as the source of an important natural dyestuff. It 
has a very pretty white, crooked trunk and branches which contrast 
strikingly with the dark green fine cut leaves. The small, fragrant, 
bright yellow flowers are in considerable numbers in early Spring, 
making this an interesting small ornamental tree. Strictly sub-tropical, 
it will not thrive far north in Florida. 
PELTOPHORUM INERME. (Caesalpinieae). SocaBark PEL- 
ToPHORUM. A beautiful evergreen tree from the Philippines and “one 
of the best shade trees we have” in those islands, according to Dr. 
E. D. Merrill, distinguished head of the Fairchild Tropical Garden. 
It bears great upright spikes of very showy yellow flowers, blooming 
in Florida from May to August. 
Kathleen Gough in “A Garden Book for Malaya,” writes: “Best 
of all for cuttings are perhaps the luminous flowers; those that glow 
and hold light. I do not know what it is that gives some flowers a 
‘lit-up’ !ook; not only does the light shine through their petals, but 
they seem to catch, reflect and hold it . . . Yellow and flame- 
-colored dahlias hold light, and so do the fleeting single hibiscus, blue 
morning glory and, above all, the golden spikes of Peltophorum inerme. 
Sprays of these flowers indoors seem liquid gold; they are wonderfully 
beautiful with their decorative unopened tight bronze buds and 
bronze stems, just touched with gilt. The fully opened flowers have 
crinkled golden petals and orange-tipped stamens. The light shines 
and glows in a mass of these beautiful flowers more intensely in the 
shade indoors than when they are growing outside.” , 
W. E. Broadway of the Trinidad Botanical Garden, wrote: The 
appearance of this tree at all times of year is conspicuous on account 
of its dark green feathery foliage. When in flower this dense tree 
carries great weight with those who prefer a mass of bloom.” 
Henry Nehrling wrote: “In comparison with the many other 
distinguished representatives of its family, this tree adds variety to 
the collection, its compound leaves being much larger, individually 
and collectively, of a much deeper green, showing in certain lights 
a faint steel-blue tint in the old, and a more ferruginous cast in the 
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