58 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



39665 to 39674— Continued. 



to 10,000 feet and in the Khasi Mountains at Surureem as high as 

 5,000 feet. The leaves are of a bright deep-green color and more 

 membranous than any of the other Indian species. They are very 

 strongly reticulate, with many raised nerves beneath the petiole, one- 

 half to two-thirds inch long. The flowers are one-eighth inch in 

 diameter and fascicled. The fruit, which is borne on short, stout 

 pedicels, is one-sixth inch in diameter, fleshy, red, globose ; stigma 

 rather large and tumid ; stones thickly coriaceous. (Adapted from 

 Hooker, Flora of British India.) 



39668. Ilex intricata Hook. f. 



A low, rigid, straggling shrub, forming matted masses with in- 

 terlaced woody branches, found in the Sikkim and East Nepal 

 Himalayas as high as 11,000 feet above the sea. The branchlets 

 are stout, angled, and rigid ; the ridges waited. The leaves are 

 spreading, thickly coriaceous, of a bright green color, and narrowed 

 into very short petioles. The flowers are one-tenth inch in diame- 

 ter, and the sessile fruit is globose in form and red in color. (Adapted 

 from Hooker, Flora of British India.) 



39669. Impatiens longipes Hook. f. and Thorns. Impatientacese. 



A very distinct plant 4 to 5 feet in height found in the temperate 

 Sikkim Himalayas from 8,000 to 10,000 feet above the level of the sea. 

 This species has scattered uniform leaves and long, axillary, sub- 

 horizontal peduncles 2 to 5 inches long. Leaves 3 to 5 inches, mem- 

 branous, rather falcate ; petiole one-fourth to one-half inch. Flowers 

 loosely racemed, pale yellow, unspotted ; buds rounded at the apex, 

 sepals sometimes four, ovate lanceolate ; lateral winged lobe rounded, 

 terminal 1 inch, broadly subulate. Hooker states that he has not seen 

 any other habitat for this species but Sikkim. In the form of flower it is 

 most allied to Impatiens laxifolia and its allies. (Adapted from Hooker, 

 Flora of British India.) 



39670. Piptanthus nepai.ensis (Hook.) Sweet. Fabacese. 



See S. P. I. Nos. 39043 and 39128 for previous introductions and 

 description. 



39671. Sameucus javanica Reinw. Caprifoliacese. 



" This is a very widely distributed species ranging from the Malayan 

 Archipelago to central Japan and western China and has also been 

 found in eastern Africa. It is characterized by the slender-pedicelled 

 flowers, t lie presence of conspicuous abortive flowers, and the very wide 

 and loose inflorescence with the longer rays subthyrsoid. It has red 

 fruits and shows a tendency to have the upper leaflets more or less 

 adnate to the rhachis and sometimes decurrent." (Sargent, Pluntae 

 Wilsonianae, part 2, p. SOI.) 



39672 and 39673. Solanum spp. Solanacexe. 



39672. Solanum sp. 



39673. Solanum torvum Swartz. 



See S. P. I. Nos. 3915, 24651, and 30895 for previous introductions. 

 39674. Stephania rotunda Lour. Menispermacete. 

 See S. P. I. No. 89084 for previous introduction. 



