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Van Fleet, of this Department. A slender-branched 

 shrub, up to 8 feet in height, with numerous bristles 

 and slender prickles. The leaves are composed of 

 7 to 15 obtuse, serrate leaflets, and the pink flow- 

 ers, which occur 1 to 3 in a cluster, are three- 

 fourths inch wide. The scarlet fruit is about one- 

 third inch long. This rose is a native of western 

 China. (Adapted from Rehder, in Bailey, Standard Cy- 

 clopedia of Horticulture, p. 2998.) 



Schinopsis lorentzii (Griseb. ) Engler. (Anacardiaceae . ) 

 43548. Seeds of quebracho Colorado from Buenos Aires, 

 Argentina. Received through the Bureau of Chemistry, 

 from the Food Research Laboratory, Philadelphia, who 

 secured it from the Director of the Botanical Gar- 

 dens, Buenos Aires. "Red Quebracho. Tree of very hard 

 wood, with compound, coriaceous leaves; flowers borne 

 in branching clusters, fruit a samara. It is one of 

 the Argentine woods which, exposed to the air, buried 

 in part or wholly or submerged in water keeps for 25 

 years in good condition as is shown by the tests made 

 with posts, beams, ties, etc., laid by the Argentina 

 railways. The products which are obtained from this 

 tree constitute the principal source of income of the 

 people where it grows. From the logs are manufactured 

 beams, ties, telegraph posts, lamp posts, etc., which 

 are exported in large quantities to foreign countries. 

 The charcoal is very compact; and the extract (tannin) 

 is an important product. The sawdust is very much 

 used intanning." (Carrasco.) 



Solarium melongena L. (Solanaceae . ) 43636. Seeds of 

 egg-plant from Westfield, New Jersey. Presented by Dr. 

 R. S. Keeler. "The Japanese egg-plant of the long- 

 fruit variety, grown from seed in my own garden at 

 Westfield, New Jersey, from seed imported from Japan. 

 This variety of egg plant is very fruitful and pos- 

 sesses fine keeping qualities. In fact, I still have 

 some of them on hand and find them very good eating, 

 although they were picked from the garden five weeks 

 ago, after having been exposed to four or five rather 

 severe frosts and a temperature as low as 36 de- 

 grees. " (Keeler. ) 



Viburnum burejaetieum Regel & Herd . (Caprif oliaceae . ) 

 43730. Seeds from Jamaica Plain, Mass. Presented by 

 the Arnold Arboretum and selected by Mr. H. C. Skeels 

 and Dr. W. Van Fleet, of this department. A shrub, 4 



