hard, the heartwood dark purple with 
black streaks. The clusters of white flow- 
ers are inconspicuous. 
*KEDAH SIMPOH (Dillenia ovata). 
This bushy Malayan tree, often straggling 
or laxly branched, bears solitary, brilliant 
yellow flowers 6 to 8 inches across. “Very 
showy,” wrote Ridley, and he added: “It is 
a beautiful plant.” “Magnificent flowers,” 
wrote Corner. The tree flowers after the 
new leaves have appeared. The rounded 
dull yellow fruits are 2%” wide. 
DOCYNIA (D. indica). <A small deci- 
duous tree from the hills of Sikkim and 
Burma, belonging to the rose family. It 
bears white, 5-petalled flowers with long 
wooly claws, solitary or in few-flowered 
clusters, followed by yellow 2-inch ovoid 
fruits. The foliage is unusually handsome. 
MOZAMBIQUE TRUMPETTREE (Do- 
lichandrone alba). This seed came from 
Mozambique. The Dolichandrone are 
mostly white-flowered evergreen trees, al- 
lied to Tabebuia. 
PACARA EARPODTREE (Enterolob- 
ium contortisiliquum). This large spread- 
ing Argentine evergreen shade tree bears 
small white or yellowish flowers in dense 
inconspicuous clusters followed by ear- 
Album Floristico 
ERYTHRINA MULUNGU 
shaped seed pods. All the earpodtrees 
seem to be storm resistant. 
*BATSWING CORAL (Erythrina ves- 
pertilio). Usually to 25 feet, this tree in 
the Australian rain forests reaches 100 
feet. Its orange-red, curved, 15-inch pea 
flowers are very showy. Like others of 
the genus the tree is subject to attack by 
borers. 
*MULUNGU (Erythrina mulungu). 
Album Floristico says of this coral tree: 
“A very ornamental tree suitable for parks 
and gardens; it loses most of its leaves 
during the flowering season, and bears 
deep red flowers at June-July (in Rio).” 
BONEWOOD (Emmenospermum pan- 
cherianum). An evergreen shrub to 8 feet 
in the Jujube family, native of Epping, 
New South Wales, bearing small white 
(?) flowers in dense clusters followed by 
orange-colored fruits. 
MADRAS ELAEOCARPUS (E. gani- 
trus). Beautiful evergreen Indian tree to 
60 feet with stiff, holly-like leaves along 
long branches. The small white flowers 
are borne in compact clusters shorter than 
the leaves. 
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