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in the Nilghiri "Hills. The lanceolate leaves are 4 

 to 8 inches long, and the small, white, sweet-scented 

 flowers are borne in long, slender, splkelike racemes. 

 This plant flowers continuously for three months in 

 India. (Adapted from Curtis 's Botanical Magazine, 

 pi. 6323.) 



Caryocar sp. (Caryocaraceae) , 47587. From Colombia. 

 Seeds collected by Mr. Alfred Lenz , Flushing, Long 

 Island. "This genus yields the souari nut, sometimes 

 exported from South America to Europe. There are sever- 

 al species which produce edible nuts. Probably the 

 only section of the United States in which they can 

 be planted with reasonable hopes of success is extreme 

 south Florida." (Popenoe.) 



Coffea bengalensis (Rubiaceae), 47661. From 

 Darjeellng, India. A collection of seeds presented by 

 Mr. G. H. Cave, director, Lloyd Botanic Garden. This 

 shrub, which is a close relative of the plant which 

 furnishes the coffee of commerce, is anative of India, 

 and is remarkable for the number and beauty of its 

 flowers. These flowers, which are large and white, are 

 borne singly or in pairs at the ends of the branches. 

 (Adapted from Curtis 's Botanical Magazine, pi. 4917.) 



Coix laeryma-joU (Poaceae), 47617. Job's-tear. From nio 

 de Janeiro, Brazil. Seeds presented byMr. T. R. Day, 

 through Mr. Augustus I. Hasskarl, American vice consul, 

 Rio de Janeiro . " 'Lagrimas de Nossa Senhore ' (Tears of 

 Our Lady). I found this plant growing in a natural 

 state in Brazil and have had it under experiment for 

 about three years at one of the Leopoldina Railway 

 Company's Experiment Stations. It is a very vigorous 

 grower, and produces under almost any conditions here 

 great crops of excellent forage. It reaches aheightof 

 10 feet or over, and a single plant often produces 40 to 

 50 shoots. The yield in green forage under favorable 

 conditions runs very high, from 10 to even 20 tons to 

 the acre, and the yield of grain is also very heavy. 

 The seeds are very hard and require crushing or grind- 

 ing before feeding if allowed to mature. But I am of 

 the opinion that the best results may be obtained from 

 the use of the plant for soiling, cutting four or five 

 times during the year. The plant stools well, con- 

 tinually sending up new shoots or stems, thereby re- 

 newing itself, and lasting here for some years. In 

 temperate climates it would be an annual, as in the 

 case of teoslnte and maize. Its favorite habitat is 



