46 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



28733 to 28738 -Continued. 



28735. ChaetochloA italica (L.) Scribn. 



28736. DoLICHOS i.ablab L. Bonavist bean. 



28737. El .i i sine coracana (L.) Gaertn. Ragi millet. 



28738. Penmsetum americanum (L.) Schum. Pearl millet. 



28739. Ceratonia siliqua L. Carob. 



From the estate <>f the Comte d'e Puerto Ilormosa, at Pizarra, near Malaga, Spain. 

 Received through Mr. R. S. Woglum, September 6, 1910. 

 ''These cuttings were taken from the best carob tree I saw in Spain. A magnifi- 

 cent tree, fully 30 feet high and noted for being very prolific in fruit." (Woglum.) 



28740 to 28744. 



From Mauritius. Presented by Mr. G. Ilegnard, Port Louis. Received Sep- 

 tember 2, 1910. 

 Seeds of the following; quoted notes by Mr. Regnard: 



28740. Pectin e a pauciflora (Thouars) Skeels. 



(Erythrospermum pauciflorum Thouars, Veg. lies Austr. Air., p. 67, pi. 21, 



fig. 1, 1806.) 

 (Erythrospermum mauritianum Baker, Flora of Mauritius and Seychelles, 

 p. 10, 1877.) 



The genus Pectinea was published by Gaertner in 1791 (De Fructibus et 

 Seminibus Plantarum, vol. 2, p. 136, pi. Ill, fig. 3), with P. zeylanica as the 

 only species, while the name Erythrospermum, often applied to this genus, 

 appears to have been used no earlier than 1792 or 1793 on a plate published by 

 Lamarck (Encyclopedic Methodique, pi. 274). No description accompanied 

 this plate and the text explaining it was not published until even a later date. 

 The first publication of a description of the genus under the name Erythro- 

 spermum appears to have been effected in 1806 by Thouars (Histoire des Vege- 

 taux Receuillis dans les Isles Australes d'Afrique, p. 65), who states that 

 Lamarck's figure only had appeared. There is apparently no reason, therefore, 

 why Post and Kuntze, Lexicon Generum Phanerogamarum, should not be 

 followed in the restoration of Gaertner' s name, Pectinea, published 15 years 

 earlier than Erythrospermum. 



Pectinea pauciflora was originally described by Thouars from Mauritius and 

 is still unknown elsewhere in an indigenous state. 



"Bois Manioc or Bois Cochon. Small tree. Fruit globose, hard, £ to 1 inch 

 thick. Found in mountain woods in Mauritius." 



28741. Eugenia glomerata Lam. 



u Bois de Pomme. Berry as large as a pea. Frequent in mountain woods in 

 Mauritius; also in Madagascar." 



28742. (Undetermined.) 



"Bois Maigre. Bois sans ecorce. Bois Bigaigon. Berry \ inch long. Found 

 in Mauritius in dense woods; also in Reunion." 



28743. Meriana sp.? 



"From Pouce Mountain, Mauritius. Pink color." 



28744. Voandzeia subterranea (L.) Thouars. Woandsu. 



"Bambara ground nuts. Nuts are eaten boiled and are very rich and nour- 

 ishing. From Africa." 



See No. 23453 for further description. 

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