THE FRIJOLITO.
Sophora secundiflora, DC.
The frijolito or coral-bean is a small, slender narrow headed tree, with persistent, locust-like leaves, fragrant violet-blue flowers, and small one-sided racemes. The pods are silky white, pencil-like, constricted between the bright scarlet seeds. The tree grows wild in canyons in southern Texas and New Mexico, forming thickets or small groves in low moist limestone soil and stream bor ders. It is a close relative of the famous pagoda tree of
Japan, S. Japonica, universally cultivated; and it deserves to be a garden tree throughout the Southern states.