24 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



47095 to 47101— Continued. 



on sandy soils. On the dunes it grows down to the water line, fully ex- 

 posed to sea winds, and where these winds prevail is consequently usually 

 dwarfed and heavily branched from the base. In shelter it gets up 

 to about 10 meters in height and 30 to 4.5 centimeters in diameter, but 

 even there it is heavily branched and very gnarled and crooked, and 

 consequently yields first-rate knees, etc., for boat building. The leaves 

 are firmly coriaceous and widely obovate. The flowers are usually in 

 clusters of two to four in the axils along the branch. The fruit, which 

 is red. is 2 centimeters long, tapers to a point, and is relished by children. 

 Abundant along the coast and through Mchopes ; also in Cape Colony and 

 Natal. (Adapted from Sim, Forest Flora and Forest Resources of Por- 

 tuguese East Africa, p. 80.) 



47100. Rhoicissus erythrodes (Fres.) Planch. VitacesE. 

 (Vitis erythrodes Fres.) 



A shrubby, suberect plant, native to Abyssinia. The leathery com- 

 pound leaves are made up of three leaflets, the terminal one obov;ite, 2 to 

 3 inches long, the lateral ones broadly ovate ; all are smooth and deep 

 green above, but covered with fine gray pubescence below. The .scarlet 

 flowers occur in small lateral cymes, and the globose fruits are about 

 half an inch in diameter. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of Tropical 

 Africa, vol. 1, p. J/Ol.) 



47101. Tritonia sp. Iridacese. 



" Ornamental from the extreme south of Natal, on the Pondeland 

 border." (Davy.) 



47102 to 47107. Poacea\ Grasses. 



From Pretoria, Union of South Africa. Presented by ^Ir. Alex Holm, De- 

 partment of Agi'iculture. Received February 6. 1919. Quoted notes by 

 Mr. Holm. 



" Native grasses of the Transvaal." 



47102. ANDROPOGOX sp. 



" No. 2. A u.«iefid fodder grain." 



Received as .1. pvrpureo-sericeus Hack., but it does not agree with 

 the material of that species in the United States National Herbarium. 



47103. Arundinella ecklonii Nees. 

 " No. 3. A useful fodder grain." 



47104. Chloris gayana Kunth. Rhodes grass. 

 •■ No. 4. A useful fodder grain." 



47105. Chloris petraea Thunb. 



" No. 5. A useful fodder grain." 



47106. Cymbopogon polyneuros (Steud.) Stapf. 



'• No. 1. Used commercially for the extraction of oil." 



47107. PENXisETfii KUPPEixii Steud. 



" No. 6. Is valuable horticultu rally." 



