40 SEEDS AND PLAXTS IMPOKTED. 



" Chinese peach trees are grown for the most part in the northern Provinces, 

 where the climate is cold. Those grown in Kwangtung Province are inferior 

 in size, color, and flavor to those grown farther north. There are three species 

 of peaches cultivated in this Province — viz, the sweet, the sour, and the bitter." 

 (F. D. Cheshire, American consul.) 



43289. "Ying tsui t'ao (eagle's beak peach). Very sweet, with a point 

 resembling the beak of the eagle and having a hairy coat. It is grown 

 mostly at Sunchuen, in the Pauyu district; Pontang, in the Nanhai 

 district ; and also in the Fayun, Sanshui, and Tungkun districts." 

 (Josselyn.) 



43290. "Ha mi t'ao (honey-flavored peach). Very sweet, slightly round 

 in shape; came originally from Manchuria. This peach is grown for 

 the most part at Fati and Tungka and some other points in the Panyu 

 district." (Josselyn.) 



43291. " Suan t'ao (sour peach). Grown at various places in Canton, 

 mostly in the hilly districts. Some are imported to Canton from the 

 Shuikwan and Shuitung districts." (Josselyn.) 



43292. Ficus hookeri Miqiiel, Moracea?. 



From Darjiling, India. Presented by Mr. G. H. Cave, Lloyd Botanic 

 Garden, at the request of the superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Sibpur, near Calcutta. Received September 15, 1916. 



An entirely glabrous tree, with thinly coriaceous oval leaves up to 11 inches 

 in length, and axillary, depressed, obovate fruits gi'owing in pairs up to 1 inch 

 in diameter when ripe. The fig is not common and ascends to 6,000 feet in 

 Sikkim. the Himalaya Mountains, and the Khasi Hills, India. (Adapted from 

 King, Annals, Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, vol. 1, p. 36.) 



43293 to 43298. 



From Bogota, Colombia. Presented by Mr. Jorge Ancizar. Received Sep- 

 tember 16, 1916. 



43293. Annona cherimola Mill. Annonacea^. Cherimoya. 



" The principal fruit cultivated by the aboriginal inhabitants of west- 

 ern South America. Endemic in the Andes, and subtropical rather than 

 tropical in its natural habitat. Fruit with an abundance of slightly 

 acidulous pulp with a flavor somewhat like that of a pineapple. Recom- 

 mended for planting in southern California in the foothills near the 

 coast." (Safford.) 



43294. Caeica candamarcensis Hook. f. Papayacese, 



"From cold climate." (Ancizar.) 



" Mountain papaw. A small seniiherbaceous tree with a crown of large 

 coarse palmate leaves, native of Colombia and Ecuador, similar to the 

 papaw of the low country, but with fruit only about one-fourth or one- 

 sixth the size of that of the latter. It was introduced at Hakgala Gar- 

 dens, Ceylon, in 1880, and is now commonly grown in hill gardens for 

 the sake of its fruit, being often found in a seminaturalized state about 

 up-country bungalows. The ovoid angular fruit is in season all the 

 year round : though too acid to be used for dessert, it is very agreeable 

 when stewed, and it can also be made into jam and preserves. When ripe 

 the fruit has a pleasant applelike odor. Propagated by seed." (Mac- 

 millan, Eandtjook of Tropical Gardening and Planting, p. 191.) 



