96 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40886 to 40889— Continued. 



40889. Dendbocaiamus stkictus (Roxb.) Nees. Poaceae. Bamboo. 



"A very useful and strong bamboo of India, formerly used universally 

 for spear staff's. The plant Mowers frequently and does not die down 

 after flowering, as is the ease with so many bamboos. The culms are 

 said sometimes to roach a height of 100 feet." (Brandis.) 



"This is the most common and most widely spread and most uni- 

 versally used of the Indian bamboos, and is commonly known as the 

 ' male bamboo.' Its culms are employed by the natives for all purposes of 

 building and furniture, for mats, baskets, slicks, and other purposes. It 

 furnishes, when solid culms are procurable, the best material for lance 

 shafts. In Burma, when large culms are obtainable, they are much in 

 requesl for masts for native boats. It flowers gregariously over large 

 areas, as it did in the Central Provinces in 1865, but it may be found 

 flowering sporadically, a few clumps at a time, almost every year, in any 

 locality, and such clumps then usually die off. These flowerings, how- 

 ever, do not produce as much good seed as when the gi-egariou^ flowering 

 takes place. The flowers appear in the cold season between November 

 and April, the seed ripening in June. The leaves fall in February or 

 March, and the young new ones appear in April. The young culms are 

 rather late, usually beginning to appear in July some time after the rains 

 begin." (J. 8. Gamble, Bambusea of British India. In Annals of ///< 

 Calcutta Museum, vol. 7, p. 79.) 



See S. P. I Nos. 21548. 23476, and 37223 for previous introductions. 



40890 and 40891. Diaspyros spp. Diospyracese. 



From Lai Bagh, Bangalore, India. Presented by Mr. William Bembower, 

 Collins, Ohio. Received June 25, 1915. 



40890. Diospyros sp. 



Received as Diospyros embryopteris, for which we are using the name 

 Diospyros peregrina, with which the seeds do not agree. 



40891. Diospykos Montana Roxb. 



"A deciduous and small erect tree, growing to a height of about 30 

 feet. Is quite ornamental and useful where small trees are desirable." 

 (Bembower.) 



See S. P. I. Nos. 31644, 32799, and 35084 for previous introductions 

 and descriptions. 



40892. Dioscorea aculeata L. Dioscoreaceac. 



From Manila. Philippine Islands. Presented by Mr. H. T. Edwards, direc- 

 tor, Bureau of Agriculture. Tubers received June 2, 1915. 

 " No. 19-1017. Tugue. Flesh white and mealy, but linn ami a little fibrous; 

 sweetish. The quality is not equal to that of the Yampi of Jamaica. - ' (B. A. 

 Young.) 



40893. Citrus grandis (L.) Osbeck. Rutacese. Pummelo. 



From Nagasaki, Japan. Collected by Mr. W. T Swingle, of the Bureau of 



Plant Industry. Received by the Office of Crop Physiology and Breeding 



Investigations, June 26, 1915. 



"I found at Nagasaki Experiment Station a most excellent pummelo, the 



Eirado Buntan, better than tbe Hongkong pummelo, though not seedless. I 



