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hybridization, and in localities where spring frosts 

 are of rare occurrence. Where Pyrus calleryana occurs 

 wild one finds it associated with the Chinese pistache, 

 the jujube, Ligustriim lucidum, L. quihoiti, Xylosma racemosum, 

 Celtis sinensis, Ulmus parvifolia, Pinus massoniana, Viiex negundo, 

 Cudrania tricuspidata , Phyllostachys sp. , Poncirus trifoliata, Zan- 

 thoxylum alatum, etc. In gardens with it, one finds 

 cultivated Osmanthus f rag runs , Meratia praecox, Paulownia 

 tomentosa, Ichang lemon, grapefruit, mandarin orange, 

 flowering cherry, raisin tree, loquat and others. The 

 fruits of Pyrus calleryana when ripe become soft and as- 

 sume a brown color, while those of P. bet ulae folia also 

 become soft and turn quite black. When not soft, how- 

 ever the fruits of the two species cannot be separated 

 when once mixed, unless there are leaves attached to 

 them. Chinese name Yeh tang li (Wild crab apple pear)." 

 (Meyer. ) 



Saccharum officinamm (Poaceae), 45611. Sugar cane. 

 From Trinidad, B. W. I. Presented by the St. Glair 

 Experiment Station, Department of Agriculture. Louisiana 

 511, one of the sugar cane seedlings tested in 1908 

 at the Louisiana Sugar Experiment Station at Audubon 

 Park, New Orleans, is particularly noteworthy because 

 of the unusually high sucrose content (16.3 per cent) 

 for Louisiana conditions. The parent cane was Trinidad 

 189. (From a paper by H. P. Agee, in the Louisiana 

 Bulletin No. 127, May 1911.) "The success of seedling 

 canes raised in Louisiana from imported Trinidad seed 

 may make the reintroduction from that same island of 

 seed produced by the Lousiana selected cane of special 

 interest to sugar cane breeders." (Fairchild.) 



Stadmannia oppositifolia (Sapindaceae) , 45663. From 

 Port Louis, Mauritius. Presented by Mr. G. Regnard. 

 A large hardwood tree, once frequent in the primeval 

 forests of the island of Mauritius but now becoming 

 scarce, with alternate, pinnate leaves; dense panicles 

 of inconspicuous flowers; and hard, spherical fruits 

 nearly an inch in diameter. (Adapted from Baker, 

 Flora of Mauritius.) The fruits make an excellent 

 jelly, very much like that of the quince. This tree 

 grows in a wild state, and the pulp of its fruit, un- 

 less made into a jam or jelly, is only fit to be eaten 

 by monkeys." (Regnard.) 



