AUSTRALIAN ORCHIDTREE  (B. 
cunninghami). From warm northern Aus- 
tralia comes this 25-foot low-branched, 
wide-spreading tree. The flowers are rosy 
red, massed all along the branches when 
leafless. In the wild this is usually a dense 
low shrub. C. cunninghami var. rosea is 
slightly dwarfer and hardier and_ the 
flowers are white with a faint rosy tinge. 
Splendid wind-break plants in dry areas. 
Both are prized in Australia as fodder 
trees, 
PELTOPHORUM 
*PELTOPHORUM (P. inerme). Fin- 
est combination of shade with pretty flow- 
ers that I know, this big evergreen Philip- 
pine tree to 60 feet or more bears quanti- 
ties of lovely yellow flowers all summer. 
(Full description in 1947 catalog). 
*AFRICAN PELTOPHORUM (P. afri- 
canum). This is a handsome, somewhat 
smaller tree of 15-30 feet with the same 
vellow flowers, much branched from be- 
low and with a rounded crown. One of 
the handsomest of bush velt trees, writes 
Dr. Pole Evans, the “very showy” flowers 
much visited by bees. I can also supply 
the Brazilian P. dubium, the Malayan P. 
dasyrachis, and I am_ growing the West 
Indian P. linnaei and P. oanene 
SINDORA (S. cochinchinense). This 
is a very rare, large, spreading Malayan 
shade tree, allied to Peltophorum. I don't 
have any information on the flowers. 
*PRIDE OF BERMUDA (Lonchocar- 
pus violaceus). Bermuda evergreen small 
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tree of the Pea family. It has long sweep- 
ing branches that seem to hang from the 
top of the tree to the bottom in a great 
cascade and when these are covered with 
bright blue blossoms, the effect is spec- 
tacular. 
LIGNUM-VITAE 
*“LIGNUM-VITAE (Guaiacum officin- 
aie). The early Spaniards called this dis- 
GOverymthe= strees 01, slifes «because, of 
supposed medicinal properties. One of 
Florida’s most beautiful native trees is this 
evergreen Lignum- -vitae but it grows sO 
slowly it is rarely cultivated in gardens 
and there as only a shrub, though natural- 
ly it is a 30’ tree. Its true blue inch-wide 
star-like flowers fade rapidly to white 
cut they are very beautiful. Freeman & 
Williams called this tree “always orna- 
mental, particularly when in flower” 
(March to May). Irvine called it “one of 
the most beautiful decorative trees of the 
tropics, whether in flower or fruit.” (See 
my 1947 catalog). 
*BULNESIA (B. arborea). Closely re- 
lated to the Lignum-vitae, although only a 
botanist would suspect it, is a Venezuelan 
evergreen tree called Bulnesia that looks 
a lot like one of the shower trees (Cassia 
sp.). It is tall, occasionally 100’ but usu- 
ally 30-40’, and bears clusters of brilliant 
yellow flowers that resemble those of the 
golden shower (C. fistula). It grows well 
in coastal areas and dry foothills of Co- 
lombia and Venezuela. 
WILLARDIA (W. 
lent for the small garden is this } 
Excel- 
Mexican 
mexicana). 
shrub or small evergreen tree with finely 
cut foliage and showy lilac pea flowers. 
