"RED ISORA (Helicteres isora). A 
shrub or bushy little Indian tree to 15 feet, 
with long straggling and zig-zag twigs. 
The scarlet flowers are 2 inches long, 
clustered in the leaf axils. The 5 petals are 
at first green tinted blue, gradually red- 
dening to scarlet. Corner says: “This is 
a beautiful and unusual bush that deserves 
to become much better known.” The 
dried, spirally-twisted fruits are sold in 
Malayan shops for medicinal uses. 
PTEROSPERMUM 
PTEROSPERMUM  (P._ acerifolius). 
This is a tall evergreen Indian tree with 
bright green maple-like leaves a foot 
across, almost white beneath. Through 
the winter it bears striking 6-inch white 
fragrant tubular twisted flowers. There is 
a splendid 40-ft. specimen at Orlando 
courthouse erroneously called “Chocolate 
tree.” The tree is rare in Florida but 
worth growing for its magnificent foliage 
alone. 
*REEVESIA (R. thyrsoidea). A lovely 
small tree from the island of Hong Kong, 
with dark, glossy green leaves, bearing at 
the tips of the branches big clusteis of 40 
or 50 beautiful white fragrant flowers in 
May and again in September. The flower 
heads, like hydrangeas, are studded with 
long staminal tubes that look like big pins 
in a cushion. A handsome, rare tree. 
VALLESIA (V. flexuosa). Austin Smith 
sent me from Costa Rica the seed of this 
small evergreen 30-foot tree of the alla- 
manda family with small star-like white 
flowers like Confederate Jasmine. 
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ONCOBA 
*“ONCOBA (O. spincsa). This bushy 
Arabian tree, to 20 feet with lovely white 
camellia-like flowers twice a year is a 
cynosure in my garden, for its “golfball” 
seed pods are interesting and the profu- 
sion of flowers is-lovely. Rather thorny, 
it could be used as a tall hedge. 
RED WRIGHTIA (W. coccinea). 
Evergreen Indian ornamental tree with 
lovely drooping foliage and crimson alla- 
manda-like flowers. 
CLERODENDRON. Most of these 
plants cultivated in Florida gardens, like 
the “Bleeding Heart” (C. thomsonae) 
are shrubs, but there are some fine trees 
in the family too. C. tuberculatum from 
Cuba is a small evergreen with spikes of 
fragrant white tubular flowers followed 
by blue fruits. C. floribundum from Aus- 
tralia is a small white-flowered tree with 
pretty foliage. 
* APOPLANESIA (A. paniculata). “The 
most spectacular flowering tree I ever got 
from you,” exclaimed George R. Fowler 
of Havana, and he has obtained hundreds 
of them. This is an evergreen drooping 
Argentine tree of the pea family which 
at flowering time (November) gets smoth- 
ered in plumes of white flowers till the 
top of the tree looks like a meadow of 
blooming pampas grass. 
FISHPOISON TREE (Ichthyomethia 
piscipula). This small Puerto Rican ever- 
green tree, with large pink flowers, has 
leaves which if crushed and dropped in a 
pool, will stun the fish so they will rise 
to the top long enough to be caught by 
hand. 
