22 SEEDS AND PLANTS 1 .MPOTITED. 



it is quitt' jxissible tluir .1. trixijcniKi will also be siiceessfiil. It is lielieved 

 that the soft-shelled kind ( \- trisijerma) is superior, for in addition to the 

 inif liein.ir easier to ci-ack. the Bureau of Science has foiuid that the <^)il so 

 ( IoshIv appi'oxiniates the Chinese tunti oil as to he practically indistinfruishahlc 

 Ilierefi-oni. There is a sliirht difference between this oil and tliat of ,1. inoliic- 

 cana." (Hernandez.) 



44062. TitiTK I -M AESTivi M L. Poaceav Wheat. 



( 7'. r II If/a If Vill. ) 

 Fi-oni Yokohama. Jajian. Purchased from the Yokoliama Xursei-y Co. 

 Received January 22, 1917. 



•• (Jiown on the slope of Mount Fuji." (S. licla.) 



44063. AvF.xA sATivA L. Poiiceae. Oats. 



From I'aris. France. Presented by Messrs. Vilnioi-in-Aiidrieux <.V; Co. 

 Received .January 30. 1917. 



■■ ^■ery eai-ly black bylu-id." {Mlniftriii-Ati(lii( ii.r d Ca.) 



44064 and 44065. 



From Eondiani. Kenia. Piesented by Mr. J. II. Cameron. Eondiani Farm< 

 (Ltd. I. U<'ceived January HO, 1917. 



44064. Cvino.M woK.x I5EIACKA (Cav. I Seiidl. Sulaua<'e{e. Tree-tomato. 

 "This seed .urows in my .trarden: it is a cultivated plant, but I do luit 



know where it comes from : ir is in every jrarden hereabouts. We call 

 it the ('ai)c lotiiafo. but it is not a tonrato, nor do I suppose that it ever 

 saw the Cape. i. e.. the Cape of (lood Hope. The early settlers in this 

 country mostly came up from the Cape after the South African war. 

 and pit into the habit of calling everything; they saw after somethin.ij 

 else that they knew in South Africa. It is a tree .srrowiu.s uji to 10 feet 

 hijili. with lar.ire glos.sy jui-een and purple leaves. The fruit is exactly 

 like an Kiiirlish plum, both in size and appearance (an average one I 

 have here on my desk, plucked at random, measures 2^ inches in length 

 and inches in circumference) : the skin is juirple and the flesh a bright 

 yellow: like I'ltyaaliii /jcrnviaua it can l)e eaten raw. stewed, made into 

 jam. or. as you say in America, preserves, and used in making pies. It 

 does not .urow wild here and nuist have been brou.uhr fronr some other 

 country, probably by missionaries.'' (Cameron.) 



44065. Physalts PERrviAXA L. Solauacea-. Poha. 

 " Seeds of an economic plant which we call the CaiM (jnoscbcrrii. A 



yellow-colored fruit about the size of a large cidtivated cherry, hut round 

 and not oval like a real gooseberry. It is a most excellent fruit to eat 

 either raw or .stewed, and it can l)e eaten with cream, in pies, or ju-e- 

 served. It is very prolific, rather in danger of liecoming a weetl and 

 running away w'ith the garden, but not any more so than your own 

 raspberry or blackberry. As to haltitat. I find it growing as low as 

 6.000 feet above the level of the sea, which is low for East Africa. Here 

 at Eondiani it is very plentiful. We are S.OtK) feet above sea level. It 

 grows in cultivated gardens and also wild by the roadside and in wild 

 bushy places. I was astonished on one occasion to find it growing most 

 profu.sely away up on the toi) of Mount Eon<liani at lO.OOO feel above 



