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This species is an excellent shade tree. It is of wide tropical distribution and 

 is often planted for ornament and for the sake of the nuts. It has been intro- 

 duced into Hawaii and the natives have applied to it the Polynesian name for 

 Calophyllum inophyllum (kamanu or kamani), owing to the appearance of its 

 foliage, which from a distance looks somewhat like that of the latter species. 

 It is easily propagated from the seed. The wood is hard and of a reddish 

 color, the sapwood lighter colored than the heartwood. In Guam it is used for 

 troughs, carts, and posts, and if daog wood (Calophyllum inophyllum) can not 

 be obtained, it is used for making cart wheels, though it is inferior to that 

 species in toughness and durability. The Fijians and Samoans make drums of 

 the hollowed trunks." (Safford, Useful Plants of Guam, p. 385.) 



See S. P. I. Nos. 33192 and 33655 for previous introductions. 



41577. Prunus serrttlata spontanea (Maxim.) Wilson. Amyg- 



dalacese. Cherry. 



From Kyoto, Japan. Presented by Miss E. R. Scidmore, Yokohama, Japan. 

 Received December 11, 1915. 



"Cuttings of Yama zakura (mountain cherry), the Giou cherry-tree in Maru- 

 yama Park (Sea-Mountain Park), Kyoto. It is a drooping variety, and these 

 cuttings must be grafted on a drooping variety to get good results." (Scid- 

 more.) 



41578 to 41580. Persea Americana Miller. Lauracege. Avocado. 



{Persea gratissima Gaertn. f.) 



From Guatemala City, Guatemala. Presented by the American vice consul. 

 Received December 8, 1915. Quoted notes by the vice consul. 



41578. " Seeds of soft-skin avocados. All selected fruit which averaged 

 in weight 1 pound 2 ounces." 



41579. "Round; skin hard." 



41580. "Soft-skin Guatemala avocados, weighing up to 1 pound each." 



41581 to 41618. 



From Bhutan, India. Collected by Mr. R. E. Cooper. Presented by Bees 

 (Ltd.), Liverpool, England, at the request of Mr. A. K. Bulley. Re- 

 ceived December 8, 1915. Quoted notes by Mr. Cooper. 



41581. Primula elongata Watt. Primulacese. Primrose. 

 " (No. 4087.) In sandy peaty soil at an altitude of 13,500 feet. Flowers 



white on stem 1 foot long, rosette of glabrous leaves, 8 inches in 

 diameter." 



41582. Meconopsis horridula Hook. f. and Thorns. Papaveraceae. 

 "(No. 4810.) A many-stemmed plant. 6 inches high at an altitude of 



14,000 feet on peaty turf over scree. Flowers blue, large; plant prickly. 



41583. Swertia sp. Gentianaceae. 



"(No. 4812.) Tufted gentianaceous plan!, growing in peaty turf 

 among dwarf rhododendrons at an altitude of 15,000 feet. Spike of blue 

 flowers 4 inches long." 



