OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1914. 15 



39353. Coffea amara F. F. Bruijning. Kubiacese. Coffee. 



From Tamatave, Madagascar. Presented by Mr. James G. Carter, American 

 consul. Received October 12, 1914. 



" Mautsaka, the so-called caffein-free coffee grown in the south of Mada- 

 gascar." (Carter.) 



" This coffee was collected in the Fort Dauphin district. It occurs fre- 

 quently in the southeastern portion of Madagascar, grows from 5 to 5$ meters 

 high, and resembles the ordinary coffee very much, although the leaves are 

 smaller. The ripe fruit assumes a yellowish color ; the seeds, which are har- 

 vested in February and March, contain no caffeine. The smell of the roasted 

 coffee is pleasant, although the taste of the drink prepared therefrom is bitter 

 and unpleasant. This species of coffee has not yet come into cultivation." 

 (F. F. Bruijning, in Verslagen van Landbouwkundige Onderzoekningen dcr 

 Rijkshindbomcprocf stations, no. 18, p. 115, 1915.) 



39354. Kokia drynarioides (Seem.) Lewton. Malvaceae. 



(Gossypium drynarioides Seem.) 



From Mahana, Molokai, Hawaii. Presented by Mr. Joseph F. Rock, 

 botanist, College of Hawaii, Honolulu, who secured them from Mr. Joseph 

 P. Cooke. Received October 28, 1914. 



" A few weeks ago I wrote Mr. Cooke, the owner of Molokai Ranch, on whose 

 grounds the only tree of this species grows, asking if there were any seeds to 

 be found on it, as you know this species was declared extinct, but it has re- 

 vived again and one single branch produced some leaves and flowers as well as 

 a few seeds. I am propagating a number of them here." (Rock.) 



39355. Acacia horrida (L.) Willd. Mimosacae. Doom boom. 



From Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. Presented by Mr. J. Burtt 

 Davy, Agricultural Supply Association. Received October 24, 1914. 



See S. P. I. Nos. 1805 and 3330 for previous introductions and description. 



"A glabrous, flat-topped tree, usually spreading more than its height. The 

 most widely distributed of all South African trees, extending from Capetown 

 through the Karroo to Damaraland, Orange River Colony, Transvaal, Natal, 

 and Delagoa Bay. Its range is, however, curiously affected in places, it being 

 absent, possibly through frost, in several large flat alluvial localities where 

 single trees have grown to perfection. It ascends to about 4,000 feet alti- 

 tude from the eastern coast and considerably further from the western, 

 but is absent from the higher parts of the Drakenburg, and seldom mixes with 

 Proteacese, thus indicating that soil as well as climate controls its distribution. 

 Occasionally it forms a fine spreading tree 30 to 40 feet in height, and with 

 $ stem 2 feet in diameter ; much more frequently it is a small umbrella-shaped 

 tree of 10 to 15 feet in height with a clear bole only to 6 or 8 feet, and the 

 constant regrowth dots or covers the veld with smaller sizes in localities where 

 it is not kept down. 



"Although usually evergreen, yet in dry, cold, carroid localities it is often 

 leafless for a considerable part of the year, and in some localities for years in 

 succession, and is then enormously spiny and colors the veld white Instead of 

 green. In most places its use is principally for fuel, for which purpose there is 

 no better wood ; but as this does not, except near the towns, use up all that 

 grows, its increase in remote localities is a difficult matter to check. Fire burns 



