58 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40000 to 40039— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. F. N. Meyer.) 



for those parts of the United States where the winters are not too 

 severe. Collected in a temple compound at an altitude of 6,000 feet." 



" This beautiful tree has been usually confused with A. chinemis 

 Bunge, which differs in its nearly glabrous short-petiolulate leaves spar- 

 ingly pilose only on the veins below and cuneate at the base, in the 

 smaller flowers and chiefly in the subglobose slightly depressed fruit 

 truncate and slightly impressed at the apex, with thick walls, in the dry 

 fruit 3 to 4 mm. thick, and in the smaller seeds with the hilum occupying 

 one-half or more than one-half of the surface of the seed. It is also 

 closely allied to A. indica Colebrooke, which differs in its larger flowers 

 with much broader petals, in the inflorescence with less crowded ascend- 

 ing ramifications, and in the cuneate glabrous leaflets; A. punduana 

 Wallich, which more resembles our species in its inflorescence and 

 flowers, is easily distinguished by its very short-stalked cuneate and 

 glabrous subcoriaceous and indistinctly serrulate leaflets." (Sargent, 

 Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 1, p. J/99.) 



40038. Quercus sp. Fagacese. Oak. 

 "(No. 2176a. Near Yaopuko (near Chenghsien), Kansu, China. Oc- 

 tober 6, 1914.) An oak, having medium large, somewhat undulate 

 leaves ; grows up into a medium-sized tall tree with a dense head of 

 foliage. Of value as a shade and timber tree for those sections of the 

 United States where the winters are not very severe. Collected at an 

 altitude of 3,500 feet." 



40039. Citrus sp. Rutacea?. 



"(No. 2178a. Lianjapa (near Hsiku), Kansu, China. October 19, 

 1914.) A peculiar species of citrus of which scions were sent under 

 No. 1221 [S. P. I. No. 39S97], which see for further information." 



For an illustration of this interesting fruit, see Plate III. 



40040 to 40064. 



From Sydney, New South Wales. Presented by Mr. J. H. Maiden, Botanic 

 Gardens. Received February 18. 1915. A collection of proteaceous 

 shrubs and trees recommended for trial in the United States. 



40040. Conospermum taxifolium Smith. Proteacea 3 . 



An erect twiggy shrub, with its stem and few branches more or less 

 pubescent, sometimes glabrous. Leaves numerous, scattered, rigid, from 

 one-half to three-fourths of an inch long, linear lanceolate, with a very 

 sharp point. The peduncles are axillary, arising singly from several of 

 the upper leaves, so that taken collectively they form a sort of corymb. 

 Each peduncle is simple or forked, pubescent, furnished with remote, 

 ovate bracts, and terminated by several sessile, pubescent, whitish flowers. 

 (Adapted from Curtis' s Botanical Magazine, />!. 2724.) 



Distribution. — Along streams and near the coast in New South Wales 

 and Queensland, and in Tasmania. 

 40041 to 40046. Greytllea spp. Proteaceav 



40041 and 40042. Grevii.i.ea hanksii R. Brown. 



40041. Var. Alba. "An evergreen shrub or tree, 12 to 20 feet 

 high. Queensland." {(Jailjoyle, Australian Plants, p. 193.) 



