more common in cultivation in Honolulu.” There are five species of 
Cochlospermum in South America, two in Africa, one in India, four 
in Australia, and most of them have large yellow flowers, so this emi- 
grant from South America might easily turn out to be different from 
C. vitifolium. And in my garden I have succeeded also in growing 
C .religiosum (Syn. C. gossypium), the Indian COTTON SHELLSEED 
which over there is usually called “the torchwood tree.” Ida Colthurst 
in “Familiar Flowering Trees in India” illustrates this in color and 
says the trees are partial to dry soil and continues: “The blaze of a 
company of these trees, with their large, pure yellow almost transparent 
flowers, tipping tha naked branches in a golden gleam, is a sight once 
seen never to be forgotten. It is known as the torchwood tree for it 
is saturated with a clear fragrant gum. . . . Even while still 
green a branch of the tree will burn freely and show a good light.” 
According to Macmillan the flowers are esteemed as temple offerings. 
Cochlosperum is closely allied to Bixa, as well as to Bombax, Ceiba and 
Chorisia. 
PITTOSPORUM REVOLUTUM. (Pittosporaceae). A tall shrub 
with yellow flowers, sometimes a single rather large flower at the tip 
of a branchlet, but more frequently a dense cluster of smaller flowers. 
THEOBROMA CACAO. (Sterculiaceae). Cacao. This is the 
tree from which we get our cocoa and chocolate. It is exceedingly 
difficult to establish in this country because unless the seeds are still 
moist from the pod, they will not germinate. Although this tree is 
native of Central America, the industry there has been neglected and 
most of our chocolate comes from Liberia, produced in Africa on trees 
transported there from this continent! Theobroma cacao is a small, 
spreading, shade-loving tree. The yellow flowers are produced on 
the trunk and large naked branches, and there also develop the large, 
ribbed, woody, elliptic-ovoid pods which are light green, yellow or 
red in color and contain the beans. These beans, as well as being 
universally popular in confections and drink, are used in some regions 
of Central America as a substitute for coin in business transactions, 
according to Standley’s “Flora of Panama Canal Zone.” 
HELIOCARPUS APPENDICULATUS (Tiliaceae). A tree to 50 
feet or more, or rapid growth, flowering 6 to 7 years from seed. The 
fiowers are 1 inch or more across in great clusters, pale to medium 
yellow. The leaves are large, suggesting various mallows. The tree is 
deciduous. It grows in rather heavy soil in the upper tropical range 
of Costa Rica. Record’s “Timbers of the New World” says that the 
Heliocarpus are fast growing trees; the Mexican and Central American 
varieties have white, very light, soft wood that is coarse and stringy, 
while the South American species provide better timber. 
ALBIZZIA SP. (Mimosacea). These trees were raised from seed 
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