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on the underside; its flowers have a light yellow corolla: with 
anamo Bay, are a little more than two feet in length and about 
one sixth of an inch thick. The Cuban name for this tree is 
“Roble de olor.’’* 7 
Specimens of a tree collected by Charles Wright at Bayamo, 
Oriente, Cuba, were described by Grisebach, under the name 
Gasebach in 1866f under the name Catalpa purpurea, from speci- 
deep purple on the back side, in front three deep red lines, 
then two yellow bands one on each side, then two more red lines, 
edge crumpled, very light purple.” The leaves are oval or 
mete long-stalked, densely netted-veined and —— = 
ath; the fruit is unknown. This plant may be named M: 
ia purpurea. 
N. L. Britton 
GROWING WALNUTS FOR FOOD 
e time is opportune to impress upon all who own land the 
t 
from Europe, at increased prices, whereas we should be exporting 
them. The value of nuts as a partial substitute for meat and 
other high-priced foods, containing as they do both protein and 
fat, is too well known to need repetition here. 
* Roble is Spanish for oak. 
+ Cat. Pl. Cub. 192. 1866. 
t Cat. a Cub. 
