APRIL 1 TO JUNE 30, 1915. 91 



40852 and 40853. 



From Guemes, Argentina. Presented by Mr. H. F. Schultz, director, Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, through Mr. Eli Taylor, American vice 

 consul, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Received June 21, 1915. Quoted notes 

 by Mr. Schultz. 



40852. Passiflora edulis Sims. Passifloracese. Passion fruit. 

 " I returned last night from a trip to Ju.iuy, where I found another 



variety of edible Passiflora, which, I think, is super-'or to the variety I 

 mailed you before. The fruit is roundish, smooth, and of a very attrac- 

 tive yellow color, of a rather pale shade, and not unlike a Yellow Richard 

 apple. The fruit is slightly larger than S. P. I. No. 40075, measuring about 



7 to 8 cm. in diameter. The pulp is bluish purple in color and, in my 

 opinion, a little more spicy than the other variety. The proprietor, how- 

 ever, claims that S. P. I. No. 40075 is a better fruit, which proves again 

 that ' de gustibus non est disputandum.' The plants are very precocious 

 and good, strong growers, for which reason they should be planted about 



8 meters apart and be trained on four or five wires, a foot apart each, 

 the upper one about 1.80 m. high. I do not know where the variety 

 originally came from. A friend of the proprietor purchased some fruits 

 in Covent Garden, London, and brought him the seeds. The price for 

 the fruit there at that time was two pence each, while the fruits of the 

 Queensland variety sold at three pence each." 



40853. Ziziphus mistol Griseb. Rhamnaceae. Mistol. 

 "A small tree with spiny, tortuous branches; subrotund. coriaceous. 



minutely serrulate leaves ; inconspicuous flowers ; and small edible 

 drupes with large stones. Introduced as a possible stock for the Chinese 

 jujube and for comparison with the Brazilian Jua {Ziziphus joazeiro). 

 Found throughout northern Argentina as far south as the Province of 

 Cordova." 



40854 to 40873. 



From China. Purchased from Dr. Camillo Schneider, Arnold Arboretum, 

 Jamaica Plain, Mass. Received June 14, 1915. Quoted notes by Dr. 

 Schneider, except as otherwise indicated. 

 40854 and 40855. (Undetermined.) Lauracese. 



40854. "(No. 422.) From Talifu, Yunnan, China. Cultivated and 

 grows wild, shrub 3 to 5 m., fruits ovate-elliptic, dark red. Octo- 

 ber, 1914." 



40855. "(No. 422.) From Talifu, Yunnan. China." 



40856. Punica granatum L. Punicaceae. Pomegranate. 

 "(A.) Cultivated. From Talifu, Yunnan, China." 



40857. Primula littoniana G. Forrest. Primulaceae. Primrose. 



"(No. 009.) From Talifu, Yunnan, China." 



"P. littoniana, though by no means the most beautiful of the new- 

 hardy Chinese primulas, has an altogether unique character that is bound 

 to carry it into a permanent place in the heart of the primrose lover. 

 The small lilac blossoms, as well as the lilac leaves, are somewhat like 

 those of P. denticulata, but here resemblance ceases. Instead of the 

 usual primula umbel, the scape terminates in a long flower spike, sot 

 thickly with bloom. The calyces are a rich maroon and the remarkable 



