10 SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



45718 to 45720— Continned. 



45718. GoKDOxiA AXILLARIS (Roxb.) Szyszyl. Theacefe. 

 (CameUki axillaris Roxb.) 



A handsome evergreen shrub from China, which succeeds very well 

 in a good conservatory [in England], but is rather more sensitive to 

 cold than the other camellias. It bears large, yellowish white, axillary 

 flowers, with obcordate, partly crumpled petals and many yellow 

 stamens of unequal length, connected at the base, falling off with and 

 holding the petals together. The leaves are a beautiful dark glossy 

 green; the lower are serrate, the upper quite entire. (Adapted from 

 Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pi. 20^7.) 



For an illustration of this tree in its native habitat, see Plate I. 



45719. Ptekocakpl's ixDicrs Willd. Fabacefe. 



Padouk. A tall tree with ascending glabrous branches, compound leaves 

 6 to 9 inches long, leaflets 2 to 4 inches long, yellowish flowers in large 

 terminal or axillary panicles, and an orbicular pod 2 inches broad. It 

 is distributed through the Malay Archipelago, the Philippines, and China. 

 (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. 2. p. 239.) 



Macmillan, in his " Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting," 

 lists this species as a shade tree suitable for low. moist regions (annual 

 rainfall 70 inches or more). He also lists it as a tree the wood of which 

 is valuable for timber. 



45720. TuTCHERiA SPECTABiLis (Champ.) Dunn. Theacefe. 



A handsome, ornamental small tree or shrub, indigenous to the island 

 of Hongkong. The leaves are alternate, short petioled, coriaceous, and 

 shining. The flowers are about 2^ inches in diameter, u.sually having 

 seven white, roundish obovate petals. The fruit is the size of a small 

 apple, retaining at the base the persistent sepals and containing several 

 fairly large seeds. The plant flowers in May and fruits in November. 

 (Adapted from Champion, Transactions of the Linnecn Society, vol. 

 21, p. 111.) 



45721 to 45723. Chenopodium nuttalliae Safford. Clienopo- 



diacese. Huauhtzontli. 



From Mexico. Presented by Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, Casa Alvarado, Coyacan. 

 City of Mexico. Received January 4, 1918. Quoted notes by W. E. 

 Safford. 



45721. " Xochihuauhtli (flowering huauhtli). A plant cultivated near 

 the city of Mexico for the sake of its prolific branching inflorescences, 

 which are gathered before they are quite mature, while the seeds are 

 still soft, and cooked with other ingredients as a vegetable. This 

 variety, with yellowish or pale-brown, discoid .seeds, is the most popular. 

 The inflorescences are known by the Aztec name huauhtzontli, signify- 

 ing " huauhtli heads.'" Botanically the plant is closely allied to Cheno 

 podium payanum Reichenb. and C. album L. It is quite distinct from 

 C. quiiwa Willd., the celebrated food staple of the Peruvian highlands ; 

 and it must not be confused with the plant called michihuauhtU (fish- 

 egg huauhtli). which is a white-seeded Amaranthus, not a Chenopo- 

 diuui." 



