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natural habitat. Fruit with an abundance of slightly 

 acidulous sweet juicy pulp, with a flavor somewhat like 

 that of a pineapple. Recommended for planting in southern 

 California in the foot-hills near the coast." (W. E. 

 Safford.) 



Annona purpurea Mog. & Sesse. (Annonaceae . ) 39358. 

 Seeds of a soncoya from San Jose, Costa Rica, presented by 

 the Costa Rican National Museum. "This species has large 

 aromatic fruit, velvety on the outside with raised hooked 

 tubercles, yellow aromatic pulp, which is edible when 

 ripe, but said to be unwholesome if eaten to excess. A 

 medium-sized forest tree ranging from Mexico to Panama 

 and Venezuela." (W. B. Safford.) 



Atalantia rnonophylla DC. (Rutaceae.) 39330. Seeds from 

 the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. "A large shrub or 

 small tree, native to India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, and 

 Indo-China, usually spiny; leaves glabrous, or sometimes 

 pubescent, 1 to 3 inches long; petioles short, slightly or 

 not at all winged; flowers borne in axillary panicles; 

 calyx irregularly lobed, split to the base on one side, 

 petals usually four, stamens eight, the filaments connate 

 and forming a completely closed tube; ovary 3-5 celled; 

 fruit from one-half to three-fourths inch in diameter, with 

 a skin like a lime, globose, with several cells (generally 

 4) , each usually containing one seed and filled with pulp- 

 vesicles, making the fruit much like a miniature orange. 

 This tree, still little known outside of India and Ceylon, 

 is the type of the genus Atalantia, and one of the promis- 

 ing species for trial as a stock on which to graft other 

 citrus fruits, and also for use in breeding new types of 

 citrus fruits. The fruits yield an oil which in India is 

 considered a valuable application in chronic rheumatism. " 

 (W. T. Swingle, in Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horti- 

 culture. ) 



Diospyros nigricans Wallich. (Ebenaceae.) 39324. Seeds 

 from Allahabad, India. Presented by Mr. William Bembower, 

 Ewing Christian College. "A tree 50 feet high, with many 

 lax cinereous, glabescent branches; young shoots and peti- 

 oles minutely puberulous. Leaves oval-oblong, much acumi- 

 nate at apex, somewhat narrowed at base, alternate, turn- 

 ing black when dry, firmly membraneous, glabrous except on 

 midrib which is puberulous and depressed on the upper sur- 

 face; lateral veins and net-veins delicate, not conspicu- 

 ous above; 3-5 inches long by 1-lf inches wide; petioles 

 one- tenth to one-seventh inch long. Male flowers in few 

 (3-6)-f lowered short axillary puberulous cymes, one-fourth 

 to one- third inch long; bracts small, imbricated. Calyx 



