Citharexylum
(from kithara, a lyre, and xylon, wood; in reference to the fitness of the wood for musical instruments). Fiddle-wood. Including Rauwolfia (of Ruiz and Pavon). ORD. Verbenaceae. A genus of about a score rather ornamental stove evergreen trees. Probably very few are now grown. They have principally white flowers, and in height range from 6ft. to 50ft. Some of the species which have been introduced are: caudatum, cyanocarpum, dentatum, quadrangulare, subserratum, and villosum.