Inventory 72, Seeds and Plants Imoorted. 



Plate I. 



A Young Specimen of the Mu-yu Shu. or Mu-oil Tree. iAleurites 

 MONTANA (Lour.) Wilson; S. P. I. Nos. 55647 to 55650.) 



Mu oil, yielded by the seed.s of Ahuritt.i monlaiia, is |)r;nlifiiliy iileiilieiil in cliariu'tcr with tiinu 

 oil, obtained from ^ . /orrf)! Hemsl. It is a valuable dryiiiR oil, tis<'(| in the viirnish, naint, 

 and many other industries. The mu-oil tree is less resistant to frost than the tuiiK-<)il tnv, 

 and the specimen here shown, grown at the Live Oak Plantation, Tallahassi"*', Kla., was 

 killed by the freeze of February, 1917. The leaves of young trees of this siK'cies are much 

 more deeply lobed than those of the tung-oil tree (Photographed by R. A. Young, Talla- 

 hassee, Fla., August 11, 1916; P19856FS.) 



