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heard characterized of certain varieties of lettuce. 

 It is not eaten raw or for salad purposes: but when 

 dropped into boiling hot water after being cut up in 

 fairly large pieces it makes a staple green vegetable. 

 The rapid growth struck me as being valuable, for if 

 in the same time as is necessary for growing lettuce, 

 one can obtain a good green cabbage, it will be un- 

 doubtedly as popular here as it is in China." (Kin. 

 Letter 2-26-18. ) 



Claucena lansium (Rutaceae), 45328. Wampi. From 

 Yeungkong, Canton, Kwang Tung, China. Presented by 

 W. H. Dobson, M.D. , The Forman Memorial Hospital. A 

 low spineless tree with spreading branches; pinnate, 

 spirally arranged evergreen leaves ; and 4 to 5-parted, 

 small, white flowers in large terminal panicles. Fruit 

 ovate-globose about 1 inch long; skin glandular, pu- 

 bescent; seeds green. The wampi is a native of S. 

 China where it is commonly grown for its fruits. It 

 is cultivated to some extent in Hawaii and could prob- 

 ably be grown in the warmer parts of Florida and Cali- 

 fornia. It can be grafted on grapefruit and other 

 species of Citriis, which makes it desirable to test 

 it as a stock for common citrous fruits. (Adapted 

 from W. T. Swingle, Bailey's Standard Cyclopedia of 

 Horticulture, vol. 2, p. 786.) "Seeds from the largest 

 Wong pi I have ever seen. The Wong pi is a grapelike 

 fruit with large green seeds and evergreen leaves," 

 (Dobson. ) 



Corylus cohtrna (Betulaceae) , 45347. Turkish hazelnut. 



From Rochester, New York. Presented by Mr. John Dun- 

 bar, Assistant Superintendent of Parks, through Mr. 

 C. A. Reed, of this Bureau. "The plants from which 

 these nuts were obtained came from L. Spath, Berlin, 

 Germany, twenty-five years ago. They began to bear 

 fruit about six years ago. The trees are now about 

 twenty-five feet tall. It took these nuts two years 

 to germinate." (Dunbar.) The tree is well worth 

 growing for its stately form, so remarkable for a 

 hazel, and for its curiously enveloped nuts. Native 

 of southeastern Europe and Asia Minor; introduced into 

 England about the middle of the seventeenth century. 

 (Adapted from Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the 

 British Isles, vol. 1, p. 402.) 



Cudrania tricuspidata (Moraceae), 45448. From Augusta, 

 Georgia. Presented by P. J. Berckmans Company. "This 



