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41432 to 41443— Contd. (Quoted notes by Mr. J. A. Hamilton.) 



" The seeds are eaten by the blacks after cooking, as they are poisonous 

 in the raw state. Some shipwrecked sailors in northwestern Australia 

 were poisoned by them." (Forrest. In Maiden, Uuseful Natire Plants of 

 Australia.) 



41435. Carica papaya L. Papayacese. Papaya. 

 "New Era papaya." 



41436. Citrus sp. Rutaeese. Orange. 

 "Kamerunga seedling orange; A 1, very sweet; in fact, has a minimum 



of acid." 



41437. Dioscorea sp. Dioscoreacese. Yam. 



"Seeds of native yam; they are wild kaikai (native food), and no 

 attempt has ever been made to cultivate them." 



41438. Ficus benjamina L. Moracese. Weeping fig. 

 See S. P. I. No. 18734 for previous introduction and description. 



41439. Lycopodium sp. Lycopodiaceae. Club moss. 

 Spores. 



41440. Musa hillii F. Mueller. Musaceae. Wild banana. 



" The fruit is not edible, being full of seeds, but as the flowers evi- 

 dently produce pollen, they might be useful to carry out experiments in 

 hybridization. The plants are prolific enough, there being about 200 

 fruits on the bunch this seed came from." 



41441. Platyceritjm grande J. Smith. Polypodiacese. Fern. 

 "The glory of the genus, however, is Platycerium grande. The barren 



fronds are exceptionally large, rounded and wavy margined at the base, 

 deeply cut above, forming an erect or arching background to the pendent 

 fertile fronds, which fork more times and have much narrower segments 

 than the barren fronds. Unfortunately this is the only species that does 

 not produce suckers at the roots, by which all the others are easily 

 propagated. It alone must be raised from spores, a long and anxious 

 process." (L. H. Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, vol. 3, 

 p. 1369.) 

 Spores. 



41442. Rubus sp. Rosacea?. Wild raspberry. 



"Wild raspberry. Likes moist situations. Growing near a spring in 

 decomposed, yellowish red, sandy shale, latitude 17° 30' S., LOO feel above 

 sea level." 



41443. Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. Rhamnacese. Indian jujube. 

 (Ziziphus jujuba Lam., not Miller.) 



"Tag bush, or Chinese-apple. Rather ornamental if trained as a 

 standard. Very good for a hedge." 



"The Indian jujube. Lisboa observes thai it is one of the commonest 

 fruit trees of the villages of western India. A moderate-sized deciduous 

 tree, 'distinctly wild in the forests of the Siwaliks and sub Himalayan 

 tracts of the Punjab and United Provinces, and also in tin Deccan and 

 in Upper Burma and Ceylon in dry forests. Elsewhere mostly cultivated 

 or run wild.'" (Gamble, A Manual of Indian Timbers.) 



"The bark is said to be used for tanning in northern India. Bombay, 

 Madras, and Burma. In Chota Nagpur it is similarly employed, but 



