50 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



this country with the flowering cherries. It has been suggested that this new 

 stock may possibly be easier to cultivate than the mazzard <>r mahaleb seedlings 

 which are now in use and the propagating work done in the winter on the bench 

 instead of in the field. The difficulty in getting a stock that is large enough 

 to bud in regions where the leaf-blight seriously attacks the mazzard or mahaleb 

 seedlings has suggested a trial of this Japanese wild cherry, which is quite 

 immune to the leaf-blight and which possibly may be a way out of this difficulty 

 Recent tests in this country have shown that this wild form strikes root readily 

 in sand." (Peter Bisset.) 



39622 to 39625. 



From Bogota, Colombia. Presented by Senor Jorge Ancizar. Received 

 December 30, 1914. Quoted notes by Senor Ancizar. 



39622. Annona cherimola Miller. Annonaceae. Cherimoya. 



39623. Persea Americana Miller. Lauracese. Avocado. 

 (Persea gratissima Gaertn.) 



39624. Solanum tuberosum L. Solanacese. Potato. 



" Small potatoes that come much earlier than any other potatoes and 

 are very much appreciated here. They are yellow inside." 



Tubers. 



39625. Cereus sp. Cactaceae. Pitahaya. 



"Pitahaya, a kind of creeping cactus that bears a beautiful large white 

 flower and gives a very nice fruit ; to be eaten with a little sugar and 

 wine sometimes." 



Cuttings. 



39626. Tiitjnbergia gibsoni S. Moore. Acanthacese. 



From Lawang, Java. Presented by Mr. M. Buysman, Botanic Gardens. 

 Received December 26, 1914. 



"From eastern tropical Africa; it is a fine climbing plant with fiery orange- 

 red flowers." (Buysman.) 



" The flowers are clear orange color, about 1£ inches in diameter. They rise 

 solitary from the leaf axils of the prostrate growths on erect 3-inch purplish 

 pedicels, and burst through one side of the balloonlike paired and united crim- 

 son-stained bracts. The leaves are opposite, about an inch long, triangular, firm 

 textured, and glossy above. Introduced from British East Africa." (Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle, May 17, 1913.) 



39627 to 39630. 



From Petrograd, Russia. Presented by the director, Imperial Botanic 

 Garden. Received December 28, 1914. 



39627 to 39629. Tamarix spp. Tamaricacese. Tamarisk. 



39627. Tamarix karelini hirta Litv. 

 From Turkestan. 



39628. Tamarix pentandra Pallas. 



Var. brachystachys. On clayey deserts, Farab. Bokhara, Turk- 

 estan, October 23, 1914. Collected by .Mr. II. B. Androsov. 



