14 Seeds a:jtd plaxts imported. 



43039 to 43048— Continued. 



43039. Late yellow. 43044. Large red. 



43040. Ahihokhara -swall. 43045. Alucha red. 



43041. Ahihokhara large. 43046. Large yellow. 



43042. Alucha purple. 43047. Dtcarf early yellow. 



43043. Early large red. 43048. Ladakh. 



43049. Erythrina poeppigiaxa (Walp.) O. F. Cook. Fabacete. 



{E. mirropteryx Poepp.) Bucare. 



From Maya.cuez, Porto Rico. Presented by Mr. D. W. May, agronomist, 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. Received July 3, 1916. 



A leguminous tree commonly used for cacao shade in the West Indies. It 

 attains 60 feet in height, but its wood is said to be so soft and water-logged as 

 to be of no u.se even for fuel and so brittle that it will not withstand windstorms. 

 It is being replaced in the cacao plantations because of this brittleness, because 

 the leaves are off the tree from .January to May, when they are most essential, 

 and because the roots are surface feeders and interfere with cultivation. 

 (Adapted from Cook, Shade in Coffee Culture, Bui. 25, Division of Botany, 

 1901.) 



43050 to 43060. 



From El Banco, Bolivar, Colombia. Collected by Mr. H. ^l. Curran. Num- 

 bered August 1, 1916. Quoted notes by Mr. Curran except as otherwise 

 indicated. 



43050. Cereus sp. Cactaceae. Cactus. 



Cuttings of an " ornamental white-flowered cactus, growing in immense 

 masses on the limbs of forest trees." 



43051. Crinum sp. Amaryllidacese. 



Bulbs of " a low, ornamental forest plant ; flowers white, fragrant. 

 Highly prized by the natives of Colombia." 



43052. Amorphophatxus sp. Arace?e. 



Cornis of an " ornamental medicinal plant, used as a remedy against 

 snake bite." 



43053. Zephybanthes sp. Amaryllidacese. 



" Bulbs of a small white Amaryllis. Cultivated in the gardens of the 

 natives along the Magdalena River." 



43054. Aristolochia .sp Aristolochiacese. 



" Seeds of a fine Aristolochia, ornamental, growing wild in the low 

 lands of the Magdalena River." 



43055. Scheelea excelsa Karst. Phcenicacese. Palm. 

 "Trunk 40 to 50 feet high, 2 to 3 feet in diameter; wood reddish. 



Leaves 15 to 24 feet long, pinnate. Inflorescence in the axils of the 

 leaves, long pedunculate; peduncle 4 to 5 feet long; spathe .solitary, fusi- 

 form ; spadix simply and sparsely branched, 3 feet long, branches 4 to 6 

 inches long. Fruit drupaceous, edible, ovoid apiculate, about the size of 

 a duck's egg; pericarp muciIaginou.s, oily, intermixed with fibers; epicarp 

 leathery, yellow ; seed bony, one to three celled. Grows in hot valleys of 

 the Magdalena and Canea up to au altitude of about 3,000 feet." (C. B. 

 Doyle.) 



