8 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



47868 and 47869. 



From Para, Brazil. Presented by Dr. J. Simao da Costa. Received July 

 3. 1919. 



47868. GuiLiELMA sPECiosA Mart. Phcenicacese. Palm. 

 (Bactris gasipaes H. B. K.) 



" Ptipunha. Seeds of our Guilielma speciosa. The trees grow in 

 clusters and are very graceful. The fruit, borne in large bunches, is 

 edible. The natives prefer to boil it and eat it with cane sirup, but 

 Europeans domiciled here have learned to eat the fruit boiled like the 

 ordinary side dishes composed of all sorts of vegetables, as potatoes, 

 yams, etc. The seeds yield an oil of very good quality, but in such small 

 proportions that no one has ever attempted its extraction on a com- 

 mercial scale." (Da Costa.) 



For an illustration of this tree, see Plate I. 



47869. MAxmiTiA abmata Mart. Phoenicacese. Palm. 

 " Carana. Seeds of Mauritia armata, from the fleshy pericarp of 



which a wine is made. The inner portion is a vegetable ivory as hard 

 as that from Phytelephas macrocarpa. As the fruit is very small the 

 buttons made are also much smaller than can be made from other vege- 

 table ivories." {Da Costa.) 



47870 and 47871. 



From Bogota, Colombia. Presented by Mr. M. T. Dawe. Received July 7, 

 1919. 



47870. AcHRADELPHA MAMMOSA (L.) O. F. Cook. Sapotacese. Sapote. 

 (Lucuma mammosa Gaertn.) y , , , 



"A rich-colored variety of sapote, which is also of excellent flavor." 

 (Dawe.) j 



47871. Annona mxjricata L. Annonaceee. Soursop. ; 



"This is a yellow-seeded form and may be a distinct species." (W. E. \ 



Safford.) . \ 



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47872. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Fabaceae. Common bean. | 



From Trujillo, Peru. Presented by Mr. A. M. Lynch. Received July 7, 

 1919. ' 



Nuna. Seeds white, nearly spherical, about three-eighths of an inch in diam- , 

 eter. i 



47873. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Fabacese. Common bean. | 



From North Rose, N. Y. Presented by Mr. O. S. Weed. Received July 7, I 

 1919. I 



"In 1917 I made several crosses between the blightless Red Kidney, Marrow, j 



Pea bean, and Yellow Eye. In 1918 I again planted these crosses and the results \ 



were really marvelous in the vast numbers of peculiar beans obtained. I am j 



sending you a few of the hybrids." (Weed.) ! 



