DECEMBER, VMi, TO DEt'EMBEK, 1!)05. 



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14907. ('iTRUS DECUMAXA. Pomelo. 

 From Oiieoo, Fla.- Received thru Reasoner Hrotlierg, July .S, lS»Oo. 



SticL-'s IVrscd Red. 



14908. PiivsAEis EDULis. Cape gooseberry. 



From (ape Town, South Africa. Presented l)y Prof. V. V. l.ounsbury, {govern- 

 ment ent<)mologi.'Jt, Cape of Good Mope Department of Agriculture. Ixcccived 

 June 2<), 1!U)5. 



"Tlie mother i)Iantation is at Wynberg, liere in the Cape Peninsula. Tlie plant 

 with us is a perennial, but the frost will cut it down. In some districts it fruits well; 

 in other.--, scart'cly at all. It .«eem.s to do best on the border of woodlands. A species 

 of Tetranychus is its one great pest in South Africa. Mr. Malley tells me that his 

 ])rotlier lias trieil it in Te.xas without success." {Loumbim/.) 



14909 to 14921. Ze.\ may.^. 



Popcorn. 



From Santiago, Chile. I'resented by Sefior Salvador Iziiuierdo, SaiiUi Ines, 

 near Santiago. Received June 23, PJOo. 

 "Samples of popcorn u-ed in Chile for the manufacture of 'llalli.' Samples were 

 without names or specific data otlu-r than the above." {Fairchild. ) 



14922. rilVSANOLAKNA ACiROSTIS. 



From CalCfttta, India. Presented by A. Gage, ofliciating superintendent, Royal 

 Botanic Garden, SiV)pur, near Calcutta. Received June 24, 1905. 

 See S. P. I. No. 8445, for a description of this unusually beautiful ornamental cane. 



14923 to 14944. Oi^untia isp. Tuna. 



From San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Received from Dr. K<lward Palmer tliru Dr. 

 J. X. Rose, of the United States National Museum, June, 1905. 



14923. J'arhona. 



14924. I'lt^fada Lisa. 



14925. Narant'oir Lim. (spine- 



less. ) 



14926. San Juanara Manzana, 



blanca. 



14927. Cumeosa Lisa. 



14928. Tuna Blanca Seca. 



14929. (No label.) 



14930. Morada. 



14931. (Spineless.) 



14932. (No label.) 



14933. (No label.) 



14934. (Nolal)el.) 



14935. (No label.) 



14936. (No label.) 



14937. (Doctor Rose's No. 



Gi;i05.) 



14938. (Doctor Rose's No. 



614/05. ) 



14939. Ilanrhera (Doctor Rose's 



No. (543 05). 



14940. Cue'ia ( Doctor Rose's No. 



644/05). 



14941. (Doctor Rose's No. 



646,05. ) 



14942. Camuesa Prisco (Doctor 



Rose's No. 673/05). 



14943. ^^ansa Color de ^osa 



(Doctor Rose's No. 

 674/05). 



14944. Cn/.st(dina lUanca (Doc- 



tor Rose's No. 675/05 ) . 



14945 and 14946. Gossypium sp. Cotton. 



From Payta, Peru. Received thru Duncan, Fox & Co., July 3, 1905. 

 14945. Brown see<l. • 14946. White seed. 



14947. CUCURBITA melanosperma. 



From San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Presented l)y Dr. Edward Palmer. Received 

 June 22, 1905. 

 "One fruit called ' OVa etdlote' from a vine that is very productive. The fruit 

 keeps several months. Fine preserves are made from it — one from the Interior after 



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