JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1915. 65 



40069 to 40071. 



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

 Received March 3, 1915. 



40069. Archontophoenix alexandrae (Muell.i Wendl. and Drude. 



Phoenicacea\ Palm. 



A showy and elegant palm, completely spineless, and with tall, stout, 

 70 to SO foot trunks, which are conspicuously ringed by the annular 

 scars of the fallen leaves. Leaves divaricate, terminal, several feet long, 

 forming a large crown, pinnately divided, the segments entire or 

 toothed, numerous, the longer ones 1% feet long, one-half to 1 inch broad, 

 acuminate and entire or slightly notched, green above, ashy glaucous 

 beneath; in very young specimens the leaves are undivided or simply 

 bipartite ; midrib prominent, the ribs more slender ; rachis very broad 

 and thick, glabrous or slightly scurfy, keeled above, convex beneath, the 

 petiole slightly tomentose, and channeled above; inflorescence appearing 

 much below the leaves, about 1 foot long, consisting of two long flat- 

 tened, ultimately pendent and deciduous spathes, inclosing the short- 

 peduncled and much-branched, pendulous spadices ; flowers monoecious, 

 greenish yellow, sessile on the branches of the spadix ; in male flowers 

 the eight perianth segments are unique in the family ; female flowers 

 with three perianth segments, sometimes more; fruit a drupe, ovoid 

 globular, containing a single fibrous seed. Seldom ripening fruit on 

 plants cultivated outdoors in California, and rather tender when young. 

 Native of Queensland. (Adapted from Norman Taylor. In Bailey, 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture.) 



40070. Cassia grandis L. f. Csesalpiniacese. 



See S. P. I. Nos. 26170, 33781, and 36714 for previous introductions and 

 descriptions. 



40071. Spathodea nilotica Seemann. Bignoniaeea\ 



Distribution, — A bushy tree 15 to 20 feet high with racemes of large 

 scarlet flowers, found in the upper Nile Valley, in Kongo Free State, and 

 in German East Africa. 



40072 and 40073. 



From Guayaquil, Ecuador. Presented by Mr. Frederick W. Coding, Ameri- 

 can consul. Received March 3, 1915. Quoted notes by Mr. Goding. 



40072. Tassiflora sp. Passifloraceae, Passion fruit. 

 "Seeds collected from plants growing 10,000 feet above sea level." 



40073. Prunus salicifolia H. B. K. Amygdalacese. Wild cherry. 

 "Ca.pulics. Wild cherry; grows in cold districts." 



See S. P. I. Nos. 36371 and 38637 for previous introductions and de- 

 scriptions. 



40074. Enkianthus campanulatus (Miq.) Nichols. Ericaceae. 



From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Presented by the Arnold Arboretum. Received 

 March 8, 1915. 

 Wilson No. 6S97. A variety collected in Japan by .Mr. F. H. Wilson. 

 The species is described as "a deciduous shrub usually 4 to <! feet high, oc- 

 casionally a small tree, branches in whorls; young shoots smooth, reddish. 



