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Cassia eremophila h. Cunningham. (Caesalpiniaceae . ) 

 44071. Plants from Wellington Point near Brisbane, 

 Queensland, Australia. Presented by Mr. James Pink. 

 "A very handsome flowering shrub." (Pink.) A woody 

 plant, found in Australia, in all the colonies except 

 Tasmania. The leaves are composed of two pairs of 

 very narrow leaflets, and the pods are very smooth. 

 In Australia both the pods and the leaves of this 

 plant are eaten by stock. (Adapted from Maiden, Use- 

 ful Native Plants of Australia, p. 121, and from Vo- 

 gel, Synopsis Generis Cassiae, p. 47 as Cassia nemophila, ) 



Castilleja indivisa Engelm. (Scrophulariaceae . ) 43985. 

 Plants grown at the Plant Introduction Field Station, 

 Chico, California, from seed collected by Dr. David 

 Griffiths, of this Bureau, at Lyford, Texas, May 2, 

 1915. "One of the most showy of the winter annuals 

 of southern Texas. The seedlings come up very abun- 

 dantly upon the sandy coastal plain in autumn, devel 

 oping slowly during the winter but rapidly in early 

 spring, and dominating the color of acres of the land- 

 scape in late March and early April. Here its seeds 

 are matured in late April and early May. There are 

 few native plants more showy than this one. This 

 whole group of painted cups, however, are considered 

 somewhat difficult to grow, and are consequently little 

 handled in the trade in this country, although com- 

 monly grown in England. Our efforts have met with 

 success and failure in their handling. Recent trials 

 indicate that the habits of the plant, as depicted 

 above, should stand winter handling, and that they 

 can be grown successfully as winter annuals in regions 

 having mild winters with sufficient moisture for seed 

 germination in autumn. It requires a comparatively 

 low temperature for their development, experience at 

 Chico, California, showing that the sudden transition 

 from winter to summer, such as we have, dwarfs the 

 plant before maturity, so that they produce but few 

 of the colored bracts which are so attractive in all 

 of the painted cups or Indian paint brushes." (Grif- 

 fiths.) 



Chamaedorea sp. (Phoenicaceae. ) 44059. Seeds of 

 Pacaya palm from Coban, Guatemala. Collected by Mr. 

 Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. "Nearly every 

 garden in Coban contains a number of these small, at- 

 tractive palms, planted not so much for ornament as 

 for the edible inflorescences which they produce. In 



