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growing decidous tree, 50-80 feet high, and sometimes 

 20 feet in diameter, growing chiefly near streams in 

 tropical sub-Himalayan regions, also in low elevations 

 in western and southern India. The wood obtained from 

 this important timber tree is not eaten by white ants, 

 is durable and not liable to warp. It is used for 

 furniture, carvings, cigar and tea boxes. The bark is 

 used as a tonic, and the flowers are the source of 

 red and yellow dye. The seeds, young shoots and leaves 

 are given to cattle as fodder. (Adapted from Watt, 

 Commercial Products of India, p. 290, under Cedrela 

 toona. ) 



Triticum spp. (Poaceae.) 43340-43373. From Mon- 

 tevideo, Uruguay. Presented by Mr. L. Moreira Acosta, 

 Laboratorio Agronomico. "A collection of prize wheats 

 of the First National Exhibit of wheats. These wheats 

 are degenerates, but adaptable to our climate, which 

 has several drawbacks to the cultivation of cereals, 

 due to their resistance and robustness. You will be 

 able to judge our progress in the cultivation of this 

 cereal which has only in late years had scientific 

 attention devoted to it by our agricultural experts 

 who have studied in our institutes." (Acosta.) 



Notes from Correspondents abroad. 



Mr. Wilson Popenoe writes from Guatemala City, January 

 18, 1917, as follows: 



"I am just back from a successful trip through 

 the Highlands. I went in company with a young American 

 from Boston, who is here in the interests of the Bab- 

 son Statistical Organization. Our route was as fol- 

 lows: From Guatemala City to Chimaltenango the first 

 day, stopping there over night, and riding the second 

 day to Tecpan. Here we spent a day, and then rode to 

 Panajachel, where we spent another day and rode to 

 Solola, thence to Totonicapan. Here we spent a day 

 and then rode to Quezaltenango, where we spent two 

 days, and then walked to San Felipe, whence we took 

 the railroad to Mazatenango, stopped there a day, and 

 came on back to Guatemala City. It was a very inter- 

 esting trip but one of the coldest propositions I have 

 met in a long time. Between Solola and Totonicapan 

 we rode at midday for several miles over a plateau 

 just below 10,000 feet in elevation, where the ice 

 had not yet melted in the puddles beside the road, 

 And this in the Tropics! For at. out a week we were 

 above 7000 feet nearly all the time, and of course I 



