46 SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



my daughter at Kiaying. I think that very few of these fruits come to the- 

 market and that there are very few trees, but I think by searching one could 

 find a tree of the fruit.' 



" Introduced as a possible stock for the less-hardy mangosteen. This shrub 

 h'as stood several degrees of frost in the mountains of northern Kwangtung, 

 where it is native." (Fairchild.) 



44240. Bambos tulda Eoxb. Poaceae. Bamboo. 



From Dehra Dun, India. Presented by Mr. R. S. Hole, forest botanist, 

 Forest Research Institute and College, at the request of the economic 

 botanist, Poona. Numbered March 14, 1917. 



An evergreen or deciduous tree bamboo, common in Bengal, India, with 

 green or gray-green culms 20 to 70 feet high and 2 to 4 inches in diameter, 

 and branches from nearly all the nodes. (Adapted from J. S. Gamble, Bam- 

 busew of British India, p. 30. ) 



This bamboo is said to furnish the so-called " Calcutta cane," used for the 

 finest quality of split-bamboo fishing rods. 

 See S. P. I. No. 40886 for further description. 

 For an illustration of a dumb of Calcutta bamboos in Panama, see Plate V. 



44241 and 44242. 



From Augusta, Ga. Presented by Mr. R. C. Berckmans. Received Feb- 

 ruary 26, 1917. 



44241. CuDBANiA TKicusPiDATA (Carr.) Bureau. Moracese. Cudrania. 

 (Madura triciispidata Carr.) 



" This tree is very easily propagated from suckers. The tree that 

 we have in our nursery is about 12 feet high and about 6 feet broad. 

 It would have been considerably larger than this but for the fact that 

 some four years ago we headed it back to about 3^ feet from the 

 ground. This tree had at least 1^ bushels of fruit which had been 

 matured from the middle of August up to the present time (November), 

 and the specimens that it bore would run into the thousands. It is 

 most prolific, and the fruit matures on the limbs like bunches of onions." 

 (Berckmans.) 



A compact, somewhat spiny, Chinese bush, with light-green leaves 

 varying from three lobed to ovate in outline, which are used for feeding 

 silkworms. The silk produced by silkworjns fed on these leaves is em- 

 ployed in making lute strings, which give clearer tones than those made 

 from ordinary silk. The tree is said to afford a reddish yellow dye 

 called the chS yellow, used in dyeing the imperial garments. (Adapted 

 from Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. 24, p. 410.) 



44242. Phellodendeon sachalinense Sarg. Rutaceae. 



A rapid-growing tree, native of Saghalin, Chosen, western China, and 

 northern Japan. It ascends to a height of 50 feet, forming a broad 

 crown, and the dark-brown thin bark is not corky. The dull-green com- 

 pound leaves are 3 to 5 inches long, and the black fruits, one-third of an 

 inch in diameter, occur in broad panicles. (Adapted from Bailey, Stand- 

 ard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 5, p. 2578.) 



