24 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38752 to 38755— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. H. G. Carter.) 



38754. "(No. 36249, Burma, India.) Nakcrijea. From the deputy 

 commissioner, Akyab, Burma Province." 



38755. "(No. 3G319, Hyderabad, India.) Kamod. From Hyderabad, 

 Hyderabad Province." 



38756. Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott. Aracese. Taro. 



From Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented by Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder, through Mr. 

 Chester J. Hunn. assistant horticulturist, Hawaii Experiment Station. 

 Received July 0, 1914. 

 Kai koi o Ewa. 



38757. Psidiem cattleianum Sabine. Myrtaceae. Guava. 

 From Santa Barbara, Cal. Presented by Mr. G. P. Rixford, San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal. Received at the Plant Introduction Field Station, Chico, Cal. 



Yar. lucidum Hort. 



" Seed of a yellow guava, supposed to be a little hardier than the ordinary 

 form." (R. L. Beagles.) 



38758 and 38759. 



From Kew, England. Presented by the director, Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Kew, England. 



38758. Acacia retixodes Schlecht. Mimosacese. Wirilda. 



This everflowering acacia is a native of Victoria and South Australia. 

 where it grows along the river banks. It does well in moist places, but 

 never grows beyond the size of a small tree, usually attaining a height 

 of 20 to 25 feet. The wood is prettily grained, tough, and durable; 

 furnishes a good gum arabic. (Adapted from Maiden, Useful Native 

 Plants of Australia, and Mueller, Select Extra-Tropical Plants.) 



38759. Escallonia pterocladon Hooker. fiscalloniacese. 



"A small, decidedly hardy, much-branched shrub, native of western 

 Patagonia, 4 or 5 feet high, with spreading branches. It is a bushy 

 plant with leaves like a small-leaved myrtle and abundant, very pretty, 

 Epacrislike, fragrant flowers, white, tinged with red. The old wood is 

 clothed with loose, cracked papyraceous bark and the branches are 

 straight, rigid, singularly angled, and winged with vortical alae (wings) 

 which are sinuate and downy or fringed at the edge." (Curtis's Botanical 

 Magazine, pi. 4827.) 



38760. Cotoneaster frigida Wall. Malacese. 



From Los Angeles. Cal. Seed collected by Mr. P. H. Dorsett, of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, at Mr. Huntington's place, Los Angeles. Cal., Novem- 

 ber 11, 1911. Received at the Plant Introduction Field Station, Chico, 

 Cal. 

 "A large, rounded, deciduous shrub, 15 to 20 feet high, or a small tree; 

 branchk'ts at first covered with pale down, becoming smooth. Leaves 3 to 5 

 inches long, i to 2 inches wide, narrowly oval or obovate, deep dull green and 

 smooth above, pale and very woolly beneath when young, becoming almost 

 smooth by autumn. Flowers while, one-third of an inch across, produced very 

 numerously in llattish corymbs 2 inches or more across, terminating in short, 



