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the wind, and the grass spreads rapidly. (Harrison.) 



Claucena lansium. (Rutaceae.) 39176. Seeds of the 

 wampi from Hong-kong, China. Presented by Mr. W. J. 

 Tutcher, Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department. 

 "A low spineless tree, with spreading branches; leaves 

 spirally arranged, pinnate; leaflets 5-9, ovate-ellipti- 

 cal, 3-5 inches long, petiolate, light green, shiny above; 

 flowers 4-5 parted, small, white, in large terminal pani- 

 cles; ovary villous, 5-celled with one ovule in each cell; 

 style short; stamens 10; fruit ovate-globose, about one 

 inch long; skin glandular, pubescent; seeds green. The 

 wampi is a native of southern China, where it is commonly 

 grown for its fruits. It is cultivated to some extent in 

 Hawaii and could probably be grown in the warmer parts of 

 Florida and California. It can be grafted on grape-fruit 

 and other species of Citrus, which makes it desirable to 

 test it as a stock for common citrous fruits." (Swingle, 

 in Bailey, Standard Cylopedia of Horticulture.) 



Diospyros macrophylla . (Ebenaceae.) 39174. Seeds from 

 the Botanic Gardens, Buitenzorg, Java. Presented by the 

 Director. A wild species of persimmon with small downy 

 fruits for breeding purposes. Technical description: "A tree 

 60 feet high, with dark terete branches. Leaves alter- 

 nate, oval or oval-oblong, acuminate at apex, rounded or 

 sub-cordate at base, thinly coriaceous, nearly glabrescent 

 below with clear slender arching lateral veins, glabrous 

 above, 3-10 inches long, by one and one-half to four and 

 three-fourths inches wide; petioles one-sixth to one- 

 fourth inches long. Staminate flowers axillary, panicu- 

 late, one-fourth inch long, pubescent; panicles many- 

 flowered, one to one and one-half inches long, ultimate 

 pedicels mostly short. Calyx shortly 3-5-fid, globose- 

 urceolate, three-sixteenth inch long, lobes deltoid; co- 

 rolla silky outside, ovoid in bud, shortly 5-lobed, tube 

 very crass and hard; stamens 12, unequal, in pairs, gla- 

 brous. Pistillate flowers in few-flowered cymes, short, 

 calyx 4-5-fid, hairy on both sides, accrescent in fruit; 

 fruit tomentose, sub-globose, one inch or more in diameter. 

 Java, in mountainous places. Local name Kitjallung." 

 (Hiern, Monograph of the Ebenaceae, p. 237, 1873.) 



Holcus sorghum. (Poaceae.) 39264-282. Heads of sor- 

 ghum from Buitenzorg, Java. Presented by Mr. T. E. van 

 der Stok, Chief of the Station for Selection of Annual 

 Crops, Botanic Garden. Nineteen varieties all described 

 as "generally growing in the mountains on a very small 

 scale . " 



