sent to me from the South Pacific by Commander R. C. Parker. The 
pods and seeds looked very much like A. lebbek, the common Wom- 
AN’S TONGUE TREE of our Florida gardens which has greenish white 
fuzz-buzz flowers that are occasionally conspicuous but never arresting. 
However, Commander Parker sent this note: “A slow-growing flowering 
tree, called a yellow orchid.” And to support his note, he enclosed 
in the envelope with the seed a crushed and badly wilted flower which 
in shape resembled the bloom of Bauhinia purpurea except that it 
was clear lemon yellow in color, the largest petal or standard measur- 
ing 1%x2 inches or more. This flower left me completely at sea; I never 
saw one like it on either a Bauhinia or an Albizzia, so determination 
will have to come later. The leaves of the young seedlings look like 
Albizzia, and I list it thus temporarily. This is my No. 1019. 
ACACIA SP. (Mimosaceae). I have grown about 50 varieties of 
Acacia, most of them virtually unknown in the United States, which 
my Australian nurserymen friends recommend as their best flowering 
varieties. Persons interested in this family are invited to inquire about 
them particularly. They are mostly short-lived trees which do not 
succeed particularly well in Florida where the summers are too hot. 
PTEROCARPUS INDICUS.  (Papilionaceae). | BurmMacoast 
Papauk. A most beautiful shade and flowering tree, native of the 
Andaman Islands, but cultivated throughout India, southern China, 
the Malay Archipelago and the Philippines as an ornamental. It makes 
a very large, spreading tree with long outflung branches and long 
slender side branches that droop with the weight of the foliage. 
Nehrling reported that the trees thrived for him at Naples, Florida, 
near the Gulf coast, in moderately moist, rich soil. Macmillan says 
it “bears a profusion of yellowish, scented flowers in March or April 
(in Ceylon), followed by small, circular, winged pods. Famous for 
its fine timber.” Macmillan lists this tree emphatically among the 
most beautiful foliage trees of the world tropics. David Sturrock 
recommends it as a good, semi-deciduous tree for general planting. 
However the most enlightening description of the Papauxk and its 
strange manner of flowering, is set forth in Corner’s “Wayside Trees 
of Malaya” which says in part: 
“This magnificent tree is wild in a few parts of Malaya, chiefly 
by the sea; in the east of Johore it is not uncommon along tidal creeks 
and rivers. It is best known as a roadside tree, for which purpose it 
excels in the beauty of its vast shady crown and its fragrant yellow 
flowers. In mature trees the lower branches spread outward and droop 
so that their ends sway in the wind and may even sweep the ground: 
the uppermost branches are short, erect and twiggy, while the middle 
branches are intermediate in length: and this configuration gives the 
even dome-like crown. Pollarded trees, like those in front of the 
hospital at Penang, develop enormous ascending limbs. 
