Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-03-05
FLORAL TREAsCREs OF HAWAII.
Beautiful Plants Which will Tarivs n n.sy
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A botanist writing in the Hawaiian An
 nual. published recently in Honolulu,
 gives description of many flowers. He says:
 Perhaps the most beautiful of our plants, and decidedly one of the most ! beautiful of begOnias, IS that remarkable one which has been named in honor of Dr. Hilebrand. which is to be found or
 Kauai, Maui, and MolOkai, m moist 1 places, or clinging tO the spray-blOwn
 face of a waterfall, n blaze of the most dencately tinted pink, fading into creamy white. The growth of the plant. size, etc, is much like that of the com mon sempertiorcns, but the leaves aTe larger angular and thinner in texture.
 while the flowers are larger and much
 more delicate. It grows from gooG sized bulbs. and under favorable cir cumstances may be found in large spreading ciumps.
 plant of undoubtedly easy cultiva- ton Is the Hawaiian caper or pilu of the natives. 1t grows ID the dry, rocky dis tricts, low bush. with rich green leaves. and large creamy white, many-stamened flowers, opening in the evening and fill ing the air with a rich fragrance. II grows easily from seed
 A plaRt that Is worthy of being much better known, both on account of it's beauty and Oddity IS the LObeliad, that has been named Brighamis Insignis. | cannot better describe 1t than as be- ing like a cabbage with the heart cut out and the space filled in with long. tubular fiaring flowers, creamy white and very fragrant-the whole being ele- .N found Ouly at kalawaO, or MOlokai- lt seeds abundantly. and might easily be prOpagated.
 Nor Is this the only LObeliad worthy of cultivation. We have at least a score of species, that, with their delicate, reed ike stalks. crowned by a head of long, graceful leaves and clusters of pendent flowers, would give highly tropical -at- feet in a garden. There IS one in par ticular, which IS very show, the finger shaped pink flowers being arranged like candelabra, on radiating branches.
 The Gardenia, or Cape Jasmine of cul- tivation, IS well known and justly priEed. out We have two of our own that are, ou the whole, quite equal to the cultivated ones. One of them grows to be a fine, large-leaved tree, bearing milk-white
 
 The well known Ohla Lehua, of sey- eral varieties - Membrosiarcs - which forms our principal forest tree, Is a fine specimen, combining, as 1t does, beauty of flowers with dignity and size. The flowers shade from hght yellow, through orange and rose pink, to a deep crimson, coming out Tn large clusters of many stamened httle brushes. The foliage .1s .k, I,-s ss.lG that seemed ID the distance almest black.
 Even more shOwy, either in fruit or dover. IS the Ohia ai-Eugenia-withi it's brilliant mass of carmine flowers, cloth .ng the otherwise bare stems and later On carpeting the ground with cOlors. AL most as prOdigal of color are the trees when the dark red fruit ripens.
 Among climbers We have the Nukuiwt ggledOn-bearing long clusters Jf bright crimson flowers, shaped macl ike the bull of bird, whence it's name, md large beans, known as sea beans.
 We have several pretty COnvOlvuh. of which the finest IS the Good night-IpO- mea bono nOx or kOali, of the natives. The flower IS a long slender tube, with daring mouth about three iEches in di- ameter, creamy-white and dehcately fra grant, opening at sundOwn.
 The IpOmen palmate, with digitate leaves and light purple flowers Tn ei1s- cers, also opening in the evening, IS very pretty, and of easy growth.
 When the Smilax Is made so much of m European and other gardens, We should not be neglectful of the fine species We have with shiny, heart-shaped leaves and large, ball-hke clusters of fra grant, straw-colored flowers.
 The most striking of all our plants Is the ie ie of the natives. 1t IS climber, twining round the large trees. The mar TOW lance-shaped serrate leaves are collected in heads giving 1t plume-likr appearance. The large crimson bracs of the flowers and the slightly darker Ob- long punches of ripe fruit add brilhance # color quite in keeping with the strange character of the plant. IL grows very easily from slips.
 The Halappe-a species of Dracena-- looks very much like Yucca, and bears large pendent clusters of bright lemon colored flowers. a foot long or more, and fruit.
 Or our hundred or more varieties of ferns it would be difficult to say which could be left out as unworthy of q place in cultivation. They are all beautiful, and all those having a distinct root stock are of easy cultivation, as they may be taken bodily from the woods and planted put in their full glory. The gigantic pulu 'erns, which form SO striking feature Of forest, especially deserve place Tn every garden, and might protect a vast number lf our more delicate species growing at heIr base.