84 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



42355 to 42376— Continued. 



By far the best of the genus and when young a very desirable pinnate 

 house and table palm deserving to be well known. (Adapted from 

 Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, rot. 2. p. 1004, under Dictyo- 

 sperma.) 



42366. Eugenia paekeei Baker. Myrtacese. 



A Madagascar tree, the wood of which is used for cabinetmaking and 

 the leaves of which have been used with considerable success as an anti- 

 dysenteric. Native names Marotampona, Rotra, Vavarotra, and Voam- 

 arintampona. (Adapted from Heckel, Les Plantes Utiles de Madagascar, 

 p. l-W.) 



42367. Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf. Apocynacese. 



Lagos rubber tree. 



A tall forest tree growing to a height of 100 feet, usually near a 

 stream, and found along the west coast of Africa from the Gold Coast 

 in Ashanti through Lagos and lower Nigeria to the valleys of the Mungo 

 River. The trunk is cylindrical with pale spotted hark: leaves oblong 

 or lance-oblong, undulate: flowers white or yellowish, in short-peduncled, 

 many-flowered, dense cymes. Yields the Lagos caoutchouc. (Adapted 

 from Baileij. Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 3, p. 1305. i 



42368. Hyphaene cobiacea Gaertn. Phcenieacese. Palm. 



A palm which reaches a height of 2 or 3 meters on the northeast coast 

 of Madagascar, increasing by tufts of four or five leaves and sometimes 

 branching on the main trunk. The leaves show the morphological 

 peculiarity of being a transitional form between the palmate and pin- 

 nate leaves of the Cocos tribe. The leaves with the petiole are from 1.7 

 to 1.8 meters long. From the petioles of various palms are drawn fibers 

 known in commerce under the name of piassavas. Perhaps this palm 

 may be included among these piassavas. The filaments which have their 

 origin at the base of the petiole measure 0.8 to 1 mm. iu diameter. 

 Besides, in the leaf, the intersegmentary filaments, measuring from 50 

 to 70 cm. in length, may be employed as thread. However, their resist- 

 ance and elasticity are less than the coir of the coconut. Native names 

 are Banty, Lokoko, Satranamira, and Satranatrichy. (Adapted from 

 Heckel, Les Plantes Utiles de Madagascar, p. 190, 1910.) 



42369. Intsia bi.tuga (Colebr. ) Kuntze. Ca?salpiniace?e. 



{Afzelia hijuaa A. Gray.) 

 A leguminous tree described as being from the Fiji Islands, but ap- 

 parently widely distributed in Oceanica. The leaves are abruptly pin- 

 nate, the leaflets mostly in two pairs and ovate. Flowers in small ter- 

 minal panicles. Pods oblong and flat. 5 to 8 inches long by 2 inches 

 broad, containing compressed-orbicular seeds, 1 inch or more in diam- 

 eter. Doubtless the source of the ifit used in Guam as a cabinet wood 

 and for general construction purposes. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard 

 Cyclopedia of Horticulture, described under Afzelia. vol. I. p. 229.) 



42370. Litsea laukifolia (Jacq.) Cordem. Lauracese. 

 (Litsea sebifera Pers. ) 



A timber tree of the laurel family, 1.1 to 30 feet high, found in Cochin 

 China. The wood is greenish yellow, tine grained and soft, with long 

 straight fiber and vers easy to work. It is not easily attacked by 

 insects and lasts well exposed to the air. found to be good for light 

 carpentry, joinery, and flooring. The leaves and twigs of this tree are 



