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follicle, and the seeds are winged. The wood is light colored and very hard, 

 with a beautiful small figure, well suited for turnery. (Adapted from Ed- 

 wards's Botanical Register, pi. ^J^2, and from Maiden, Useful Native Plants of 

 Australia, p. 564.) 



43581 to 43583. 



From Madagascar. Presented by Mr. Eugene Jaegle, director, Agricul- 

 tural Station of Ivoloina, near Tamatave. Received November 8, 1916. 



43581. Medemia nobilis (Hildebr. and Wendl.) Drude. Phcenifacese. 

 (Bismarckia nobilis Hildebr. and Wendl.) Bismarck's palm. 



A tall fan-shaped palm found in western Madagascar, with a stout 

 columnar trunk. The compact foliage has a spread of 3 meters, and 

 from the white-striped leafstalk hang immense clusters of light-brown 

 fruits about the size of plums. (Adapted from Wendland, Botanische 

 Zeitung, vol. 39, pp. 9Ji, 95,) 



43582. Lagerstroemia speciosa (Muenchh.) Pers. Lythracege. 



(L. flos-reginae Retz. ) Crape myrtle. 



A tree. 50 to 60 feet in height, with leaves from 4 to 8 inches long and 

 large panicles of flowers which vary from rose to purple from morning 

 to evening. This is the chief timber tree in Assam and eastern Bengal, 

 India, and also in Burma. It occurs along river banks and on low 

 swampy ground and is connnonly cultivated as an avenue tree. No special 

 care is used in growing this tree, which is felled when from 30 to 50 

 years of age, and the timber is used for shipbuilding, boats, etc., being 

 very durable under water. It has been introduced into s-outhern Cali- 

 fornia. (Adapted from Watt, Commercial Products of India, p. 701, and 

 from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. If, p. 1775.) 



43583. LiNOMA ALBA (Bory) O. F. Cook. Phcenicacese. Palm. 



A slender, spineless, Arecalike palm found in tropical Asia, where it 

 grows to a height of 30 feet or more and a diameter of 8 or 9 inches, 

 dilated at the base. The leaves are 8 to 12 feet long. Branches of the 

 spadix 6 to 18 inches long, erect or slightly reflexed, zigzag when young. 

 By far the best of the genus and when young a very desirable pinnate 

 house and table palm, deserving to be well known. (Adapted from 

 Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 2, p. IOO4.) 



43584. Chayota edulis Jacq. Cucurbitacese. Chayote. 

 (Sechium edule Swartz.) 



From Dorcyville, La. Presented by Mr. Leonce M. Soniat, Cedar Grove 

 Plantation. Received November 20, 1916. 

 " Two of the fruits raised by a gentleman who lives on my place. These are 

 a cross between the green and the white." (Soniat.) 



43585. DiMOCARPus longan Lour. Sapindacese. Longan. 



(Nephelium longana Cambess.) ; 



From Paget East, Bermuda. Presented by Mr. E. J. Wortley, director, 

 Bermuda Agricultural Station. Received November 20, 1916. 

 Bud wood from the same tree as seed of S. P. I. No. 43338. 



