Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-01

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ingly green and ferny, but by no
means flowery.
Hawaii is not a flowerleSS land,
but the native roadside flowers are
very few and are seldom seen by
the ordinary tourist. For the more
leisurely globe-trotter are reserved
what few grand floral displays Ha-
wall INDUCES inland even to him
they are denied unless he is FORUM
ate in trotting at the right season.
This being the case he may see the
trees on the Volcano road loaded
with the ie-ie vine in bloom. This
vine ESQ called from its crooked way
of growing) gsows to the tops of the
tallest trees, and the long, pointed
leaves are in punches. When in
flower each cluster of leaves is
crowned with an immense star
shaped roSe-red flower often a foot
across, and a tree loaded with vine
in bloom is a sight to remember.
Some early morning our traveller,
in pursuit or the beautiful, rides
down into the cool green depths of
some little gulch, and while his
horse drinks deep from the clear
stream which crosses the road, he
holds his breath with joy that he
has lived to see a grove of ohia trees
in bloom, every branch as if wound
with richest crimson chenille gleam-
ing between the shining dark green
leaves, and every branchlet tipped
with new leaves, fair as flowers,
soft pink and paleSt green. Or per-
haps the flower season is long past,
and warm and thirsty from the long
ride, he reaches a ravine to find the
graceful trees loaded with scarlet
fruit, looking outside and in like the
snow apple of his boyhood days,
and though rather insipid, cool and
refreshing to his thirsty lips. There
is another variety of ohia, with scar
let flowers and small glaucouS leaves,
priced by the natives for wreaths.
Perhaps, in the edge of the stream,
clumps of tall ginger plant may be
growing, crowned with heads of
creamy orchid-Shaped flowers much
loved by the natives for their rich,
heavy fragrance. Another wild
variety is common on the sides of
the ravineS, bearing small, compact
rounded heads of red bract-like
flowers, the spaces between the
bractS filled with a watery liquid
always cool in the WarmeSt weather.
1t is said the old chiefs loved to
recline in the shade in "SlumberouS
moons" and be beaten on the fore
head with these flowers, so soft,
cool and family sweet. Of the
other varieties found here | may
mention the kind used for spice;
the giant ginger growing ten or
fifteen feet high and with immense
heads of brac-like flowers looking
like lump of rose-colored wax, and
one bearing racemes of waXy white
buds tipped with rose, while the
opened flower is white with lip of
yellow, veined with scarlet.
One becomes aware of peculiar
fragrance in the air, half sweet, half
bitter, and we trace it to the flower
of the lauhala tree, or screw pine.
The flowers are yellowiSh, very
small and compact, borne in i'm
menSe pendant racemeS bursting
from a cream white sheath, often
three feet long. At close quarters
the fragrance is too powerful to be
agreeable. This tree is valuable to
the natives; from the leaves they
make their mats, hats, their So
called "grasS-houses and from
the sections of the fruit (Which looks
to the "tenderfoot" like huge yellow
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