OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1908. 15 



23872 to 23881. 



From Paris, France. Presented by Mr. E. Tisserand, Minister of Colonies, 

 Jardin Colonial. Received October 4, 1908. 



The following plants : 



23872 to 23874. Musa paradisiaca L. Banana. 



23872. Chec Chwea (Cambodia). 



23873. Primitive (Colombia). 



23874. Gabon (Reunion). 



23875. Musa cavendishii Lamb. Banana. 



Sweet (New Caledonia). 

 23876 and 23877. Colocasia esculexta (L.) Schott. 



23876. Green. 



23877. Violet. 



23878. Bombax macrocarpum (Cham. & Schlecht.i Schum. 



23879. Passiflora laurifolia L. 



23880. Passiflora sp. 

 (Mexico.) 



23881. Amorphophallus bulbifer (Roxb.) Blume. 



23882. Garcixia cornea L. (?) 



From Buitenzorg, Java. Presented by Dr. M. Treub, director, Department of 

 Agriculture. Received October 15, 1908. 



"The Garcinia cornea L. is a small tree, with horizontal branches; leaves, leathery, 

 shining. Fruit the size of a small orange, bright red; seeds inclosed in a white, 

 juicy, very acid aril." (Hooker, Flora of British India.) 



'"An evergreen tree; yields an inferior kind of gamboge; wood brown, heavy, of a 

 coarse unequal fiber, hard, rather close grained." ( Watt, Economic Products of India.) 



'"Imported for use in solving the mangosteen problem." (Fairchild .) 



23894 and 23895. Rubus chamaemorus L. 



From Harrington Harbor, Canadian Labrador. Presented by Miss Edith Mavon, 

 Deep Sea Mission Hospital. Received October 17, 1908. 

 "Plants and fruits of what is locally called the Balce apple; it resembles a yellow 

 raspberry in color and size, tastes of honey and bananas mixed, grows in moist 

 ground on a plant 4 inches high; the flower is white. It is very hardy, for our 

 winters are long and severe, the surface of the ground is still frozen (May 26) and 

 there is snow in all the hollows and shady places." ( Mayon.) 



23896. Medicago sativa L. Alfalfa. 



From Lima, Peru. Presented by Senor Ignacio La Puente, through Mr. Charles 

 J. Brand. Received September, 1908. 

 "This seed probably originated in the vicinity of Supe, in the coastal plain region 

 of Peru." (Brand.) 



23897. Cryptocarya rubra (Mol.) Skeels. (Peumus rubra Mol. 



Sagg. Chil. 185. 1782.) (Cryptocarya peumus Xees.) 



From Coronel, Chile. Presented by Mr. Teodoro Finger, Estacion Colico, 

 through Mr. O. W. Barrett. Received October 20, 1908. 



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