18 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



47002 and 47003— Continued. 



leafstalks and the buds of the corms and tubers are distinctly more 

 reddish in color than in the latter variety, however. The quality la 

 similar to that of the Trinidad variety." 



47004. Persea a:>iericaxa Mill. Laiiraceae. Avocado. 



(P. gratissima Gaertn. f.) 

 From the City of Mexico, Mexico. Collected in the market by Mr. Wilson 

 Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer for the Department of Agriculture. Re- 

 ceived January 20, 1919. 



"A small-fruited, Mexican avocado for growing stocks on which to bud the 

 Guatemalan introductions and other choice varieties." {Wilson Popenoe.) 



47005 and 47006. Pennisetum setosum (Swartz) L. Rich. Poa- 



ceaB. Grass. 



From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Presented by Mr. H. A. Cardinell, Miuis- 

 terio da Agricultura. Received January 23, 1919. 



47005. " Forage plant found on all soils in the State of Matto Grosso." 



47006. "From Matto Grosso." 



47007. Coelococcus amicarum (Wendl.) W. F. Wight. Phcenica- 



(O. caroUnensis Dingi.) [ceae. Ivory-nut palm. 



From Honolulu, Hawaii. Fruits presented by Dr. Harold L. Lyon, Experi- 

 ment Station of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters'. Association. Received 

 January 23, 1919. 



" These fruits were collected a few days ago on the premises of Mr. John 

 Scott, of Hilo. Mr. Scott purchased fruits of this palm from a sea captain 

 many years ago and succeeded in rearing one plant which is now a large, hand- 

 some palm, the only fruiting specimen in these islands." (Lyon.) 



" A piunate-leaved palm introduced into Guam from the Caroline Islands. 

 The nuts are of an ivorylike texture and are exported from the Carolines to 

 Germany for button making.* The spheroid fruit, about 7 centimeters long and 

 8 centimeters in diameter, has a reddish brown, glossy, scaly shell. The surface 

 of the seed is glossy, black, and thickly striped but not furrowed. The allied 

 species of the Solomon Islands {Coelococcus solomonensis) has a straw-colored 

 shell, and that of C. vitiensis of Fiji, which is not used in the arts, is yellow. 

 The inflorescence of this genus has not yet been described. In some of the Solo- 

 mon Islands the natives prepare sago from the pith of the species growing there. 

 It is said to keep well and not to be injured by salt water, so that it is a val- 

 uable food staple to take with them on their canoe voyages." {Contributions 

 from the U. S. National Herbarium, vol. 9, p. 2Jf.i.) 



47008. MiLLETTiA RETICULATA Benth. Fabaceae. 



From Houston, Tex. Cuttings presented by Mr. Charles E. Hogans. Re- 

 ceived January 24, 1919. 



" Cuttings of a wistaria which, I believe, is rare in this country. It was 

 given to me by a Japanese who had imported a few plants ; he called it * For- 

 mosan wistaria.' It blooms here in August, holds blooms for over 30 days, and 

 the flowers are a dark red. It holds its leaves all winter if the weather is 

 not extreme, and they are of a darker green than those of other varieties." 

 ( Hogans. ) 



