This shrub, a member of the Verbena family, is a native of tropical America. It is grown in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel garden. ([Plate VI])
SHRIMP PLANT
Beloperone guttata Brandegee
(Beloperone nemorosa)
Rosy or yellowish bracts, overlapping with scale-like precision to form a curving tube, are highly suggestive of the curved tail of a shrimp and explain the popular name of this plant. The true flowers appear, one or two at a time, from beneath the colored bracts, near the tip. They are small, white, tubular, with purplish dots on the larger of the two lobes.
The plant is herbaceous and sprawling, growing at most to five feet. Its leaves are slightly rough to the touch, opposite, and of medium size. It is a native of tropical America and a member of the Acanthus family. It grows in the garden of the Royal Hawaiian hotel. ([Plate VI])
[Plate V]
NATIVE TREES—CHAPTER III
Identification key (1) Hau (2) Hala (3) Ohia Lehua (4) Kamani (5) Koa (6) Milo (7) Kou (8) Kukui
