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Berberis brachypoda Maxim. (Berberidaceae . )40562 . Plants 

 of a barberry from Elstree, Herts, England. Presented by 

 the Hon. Vlcary Gibbs. "A yellow-flowered scarlet-fruited 

 barberry, related to B. amurensis , from Central and Western 

 China. A shrub up to six feet in height with elliptic- 

 oblong, acute leaves, pubescent on both sides, one and 

 one-half to three and one-half inches long, racemes pubes- 

 cent, slender, two to three inches long, fruits elliptic, 

 up to 11 mm. long and 6 mm. across, with a sessile stig- 

 ma." (Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, and Bailey, New Stand- 

 ard Cyclopedia. ) 



Camoensia maxima Welw. (Fabaceae.) 40391. Seeds from 

 Loanda, Angola, Portuguese West Africa. "This climbing 

 legume is suited for large greenhouses only or for tropi- 

 cal landscapes. It flowered at the Department greenhouses 

 from October to December 1907. The plant is native to 

 tropical West Africa, and was reported by Welwitsch, its 

 discoverer, as adorning lofty trees in the outskirts of 

 forests of the Golunga Alto 'with its splendid bunches of 

 pendulous flowers, tinged with gold on the edge of the 

 petals. 1 The flowers are borne in racemes of sometimes 

 nearly a dozen and are probably the largest of all legumi- 

 nous flowers. The individual flowers are as much as eight 

 inches in length and the petals of a ghostly white, mar- 

 gined with old gold. The standard is about four inches in 

 width, while the other petals are quite slender. When 

 first opening the flowers have a delicious fragrance." 

 (R. A. Young. ) 



Castanea mollissima Blume? (Fagaceae.) 40508. Seeds of 

 a chestnut from Sianfu, Shensi, China. "A large-fruited 

 variety of Chinese chestnut, coming from Ya tze ko, south 

 of Sianfu, called qui li tze, meaning 'superior chestnut. 1 

 This variety is propagated by grafting. It seems on the 

 whole somewhat more resistant to the bark disease (Enclotliia 

 parasitica] than the ordinary strain of Chinese chestnut." 

 (Meyer's introduction and description.) It is interesting 

 to note in this connection that a tree raised from seed of 

 S.P.I. 21875 introduced by Mr. Meyer from Pangshan as 

 Castanea sativa but since determined as Castanea mollissima 

 Blume, which was planted out in my garden in 1908, was in- 

 oculated by Mr. J. F. Collins of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, Sept. 13, 1912. For a long time it showed no 

 signs of the disease, but later developed a very mild form 

 of it which was left on the tree until June 1st, 1913, 

 when it was cut out. Notwithstanding the exposure to the 

 disease which the inoculation and the long presence of the 



