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SEEDS AM) PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37214. Li num. usitatissimum L. 



Flax. 



From Hoshangabad, Central Provinces, British India. Presented by Mr. A. 

 Howard, Imperial Economic Botanist, Agricultural Research Institute, 

 Pusa, Bengal, India. Received February 20, 1914. 



37215. Oryza sativa L. Rice. 



From Lima, Peru. Presented by Mr. Benton McMillin, American minister. 

 Received February 17, 1914. 



" Highland rice, grown in the montana of Peru. It is a species produced 

 without irrigation and at an elevation several thousand feet above the sea 

 level. It is quite possible you might develop it into a valuable food product." 

 (McMillin.) 



37216. Talauma hodgsoni Hook. f. and Thorns. 



From Sibpur, near Calcutta, India. Presented by the superintendent, 

 Royal Botanic Gardens. Received February 17, 1914. 



This is a tender evergreen tree belonging to the Magnoliacere. It is 50 to 60 

 feet tall, bearing cup-shaped fragrant flowers fully 6 inches across and 4 inches 

 deep, blooming in early spring. The ivory-white petals are quite thick and 

 contrast finely with the glaucous purplish blue sepals. Leaves, 8 to 20 by 4 to 9 

 inches, obovate oblong, cuspidate or obtuse, leathery, glaucous; (lowers solitary, 

 terminal; sepals 3 to 5, purple outside, petals about six in number. This 

 species is a native of the Himalayas, a region which is perhaps richer in hand- 

 some magnolialike trees than any other area of equal size in the world. This 

 species grows at altitudes ranging from 5,000 to 6,000 feet. (Adapted from 

 Hooker and Thomson, Botanical Magazine, pi. 7392, and Bailey, Cyclopedia of 

 American Horticulture.) 



37217 and 37218. 



From Barberton, Transvaal. Presented by Mr. George Thorncroft. Re- 

 ceived February 21, 1914. 



37217. Cebopegia thokncroftit N. E. Brown. 



"This is a climber 4 to 5 feet, always found growing up an acacia 

 tree in the dry veldt." (Thorncroft.) 



" Ceropegia thorncroftii closely resembles C. crispata N. E. Br., not 

 only in its habit and as regards its foliage, but also in having a cluster 



