OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1913. 



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36497. Garcixia obloxgifolia Champion. 



From Hongkong, China. Presented by Mr. William J. Tutcher, Botanical and 

 Forestry Department. Received October 22, 1913. 

 "A tree with leaves shortly stalked, oblong, narrowed at the base, 2h to 3 inches 

 long, the upper ones almost sessile. The yellow flowers produced in May are terminal 

 and unisexual, the males three to seven together and shortly pedunculate. SepaLs 

 2 lines, petals nearly 5 lines long. Stamens consolidated into a solid mass, occupying 

 the center of the flower. The females are solitary and rather smaller. It is common 

 in the Happy Valley woods, Hongkong, but is not known to come from elsewhere. 

 The foliage is nearly the same as that of G. cambogia, but the male pedicels are much 

 shorter and the anthers more numerous." (Bentham's Flora Hongkong ensis, p. 25.) 



36498 to 36527. Triticum aestiyum L. "Wheat. 



(T. vulgare Yill.) 

 From Tashkend, Turkestan. Presented by Dr. Richard Schrocder, Tashkend 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. Received October 14, 1913. 

 "Our Turkestan spring wheats are often sown in the late fall or in the winter and 

 do fairly well, though our winter is rather hard. They are sown on nonirrigated land 

 and stand drought exceedingly well, better than durum. The most of our precipi- 

 tation we get in the spring, maximum in March, the summer and fall being exceedingly 

 dry, some years without a drop of rain, so I think that our spring wheat will not 

 suit your Southern States, nor even your Central States, Kansas for instance, for they 

 must suffer from rust in rainy summers. But in California and Utah, where they do 

 not have summer rains, these wheats will probably be found of high value." (Extract 

 from Dr. Schroeder's letter, dated October SJ16, 1913.) 



36528. Hibiscus waimeae X(?). 



From Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented by Mr. E. V. Wilcox, Hawaii Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. Received October 24, 1913. 

 "Ruth Wilcox. A very vigorous, freely branching shrub with good foliage, upright 

 growth, and light-gray bark. Leaves cordate, crenate, blunt, 2f to 4$ inches wide, 

 3 to 5 inches long, light green, shiny, pubescent on both sides, petiole 1 \ inches long. 

 Flowers 6 inches wide, pure white, no eye, petals wide, column crimson toward the 

 tip, 4 inches long, stigma scarlet, filaments crimson, bracts six to eight, greenish brown, 

 peduncle 1 inch long. Flower opens at noon, lasts two days, has delicate perfume. 

 Best white thus far bred -ceding. 



