. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. South American Milk Tree 6oi I. CHINESE TALLOW TREE — Sapium sebiferum (Linnaeus) Roxburgh Croton sebiferum Linnaeus. Stillingia sebijera Michaux This large poplar-like tree has been introduced into our area as a shade tree from China or Japan, and has become naturalized from North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, where it reaches a maximum height of 15 meters. The bark is about 10 mm. thick, rather smooth and reddish b
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. South American Milk Tree 6oi I. CHINESE TALLOW TREE — Sapium sebiferum (Linnaeus) Roxburgh Croton sebiferum Linnaeus. Stillingia sebijera Michaux This large poplar-like tree has been introduced into our area as a shade tree from China or Japan, and has become naturalized from North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana, where it reaches a maximum height of 15 meters. The bark is about 10 mm. thick, rather smooth and reddish brown. The twigs are slender, round, smooth and marked by numerous leaf scars, yellowish brown or gray. The leaves are alternate, thin, or membranous, rhombic, 4 to 8 cm. long, taper-pointed, broadly wedge-shaped at the base, wavy on the margin, dark green and smooth above, paler beneath, prominently veined on either sur- face ; the leaf-stalk is slender, with a gland near the top, and as long as or longer than the blade. The flowers appear in the spring in terminal, slender spikes 5 to 10 cm. long. The fruit is a 3-lobed capsule, cm. in diameter, dc- ^^^ sj^.-Chinese Tallow Tree. pressed-globose, abruptly pointed, dark brown, the thick walls separating readily into cleft segments exposing the 3 large seeds which are 8 to 9 mm. long, coated with a white, waxy substance under which is a dark brown, thick testa. They hang on by light threads for some time after the opening of the capsule, when their waxy whiteness is in strong contrast to the reddish autumnal fohagc. The wood is hard, close-grained, nearly white; its specific gravity is about ; it is used in Asia for furniture, and it is said that the Chinese make their wooden type or printing blocks from this wood. A brittle wax, used for candle making iri Asiatic countries is obtained from the seed coat. 2. SOUTH AMERICAN MILK TREE - Sapium glandulosum (Linnaeus) Morong Hippomane glandulosa Linnaeus. Hippomane higlandu
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