﻿APRIL 
  1 
  TO 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1910. 
  67 
  

  

  28123 
  and 
  28130— 
  Continued. 
  

  

  28130. 
  Ziziphus 
  oxyphylla 
  Edgew. 
  

  

  "Qadhmani. 
  This 
  name 
  refers 
  to 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  they 
  can 
  be 
  chewed 
  up, 
  stones 
  

   and 
  all. 
  Some 
  call 
  them 
  ' 
  MakM,' 
  as 
  they 
  are 
  thought 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  introduced 
  

   here 
  from 
  the 
  city 
  of 
  Mecca." 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Found 
  occasionally 
  on 
  the 
  eastern 
  flanks 
  of 
  the 
  Sulaiman 
  

   Range 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  outer 
  Himalayas 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  Ganges, 
  in 
  northwestern 
  India. 
  

   "The 
  jujube 
  tree 
  grows 
  in 
  this 
  dry 
  country 
  without 
  any 
  attention 
  or 
  irrigation. 
  

   The 
  fruit 
  is 
  relished 
  by 
  the 
  natives, 
  but 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  think 
  Americans 
  will 
  care 
  for 
  it. 
  It 
  

   has 
  a 
  taste 
  vaguely 
  resembling 
  the 
  red 
  haw 
  of 
  Texas, 
  if 
  the 
  memories 
  of 
  my 
  childhood 
  

   do 
  not 
  play 
  me 
  false. 
  The 
  English 
  call 
  the 
  fruit 
  I 
  have 
  sent 
  you 
  'nubbuck 
  apples.' 
  

   The 
  Arabic 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  jiruit 
  is 
  'Nabaq,' 
  the 
  tree 
  is 
  called 
  'Sidr.' 
  " 
  

  

  Note. 
  — 
  The 
  Tournefortian 
  genus 
  Ziziphus 
  was 
  not 
  recognized 
  by 
  Linnaeus 
  in 
  his 
  

   Species 
  Plantarum 
  but 
  was 
  united 
  with 
  Khamnus, 
  and 
  the 
  five 
  species 
  known 
  to 
  

   Linnaeus 
  were 
  included 
  as 
  Rhamnus 
  lotus, 
  R. 
  jujuba, 
  R. 
  oenopolia, 
  R. 
  zizyphus, 
  and 
  

   R. 
  spina-christi. 
  Ziziphus 
  was, 
  however, 
  recognized 
  as 
  a 
  distinct 
  genus 
  by 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  authors 
  soon 
  after 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  Species 
  Plantarum 
  in 
  1753. 
  The 
  first 
  of 
  

   these 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  Duhamel 
  (Traite 
  des 
  Arbres, 
  1756, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  p. 
  877), 
  with 
  

   one 
  species, 
  followed 
  by 
  Miller 
  (Gard. 
  Diet., 
  ed. 
  7, 
  1759), 
  with 
  four 
  species, 
  Adanson 
  

   (Families 
  des 
  Plantes, 
  1763, 
  vol. 
  2, 
  pp. 
  304, 
  620), 
  with 
  six 
  species, 
  and 
  by 
  other 
  authors. 
  

   The 
  first 
  of 
  these 
  authors 
  to 
  use 
  the 
  Linnsean 
  binomial 
  nomenclature 
  was 
  Philip 
  

   Miller 
  in 
  the 
  1768 
  edition 
  of 
  the 
  Gardener's 
  Dictionary, 
  and 
  the 
  four 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  

   1759 
  edition 
  are 
  there 
  included 
  as 
  Ziziphus 
  jujuba, 
  Z. 
  sylvestris, 
  Z. 
  oenoplia 
  [oeno- 
  

   polia], 
  and 
  Z. 
  africana. 
  Miller, 
  however, 
  did 
  not 
  apply 
  the 
  name 
  Ziziphus 
  jujuba 
  to 
  

   Rhamnus 
  jujuba 
  of 
  Linnaeus, 
  for 
  which 
  species 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  almost 
  universally 
  used 
  

   by 
  subsequent 
  authors, 
  but 
  to 
  "The 
  common 
  Jujube," 
  Rhamnus 
  zizyphus 
  of 
  Linnaeus 
  

   (Z. 
  sativa 
  Gaertn. 
  1788, 
  Z. 
  vulgaris 
  Lam. 
  1789). 
  To 
  conform 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  practice 
  

   in 
  specific 
  nomenclature 
  Rhamnus 
  jujuba 
  L. 
  must 
  therefore 
  be 
  known 
  as 
  Ziziphus 
  

   mauritiana 
  Lam., 
  this 
  being 
  the 
  next 
  earlies 
  u 
  available 
  name 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  species, 
  

   while 
  Rhamnus 
  zizyphus 
  L. 
  becomes 
  Ziziphus 
  jujuba 
  Miller. 
  Miller's 
  Ziziphus 
  syl- 
  

   vestris 
  is 
  Z. 
  lotus 
  (L.) 
  Lam. 
  and 
  his 
  Z. 
  africana 
  is 
  Z. 
  spina-christi 
  (L.) 
  Willd. 
  

  

  28131. 
  Anona 
  reticulata 
  L. 
  Custard-apple. 
  

  

  From 
  Manila, 
  Philippine 
  Islands. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Perkins. 
  Received 
  

   April 
  16, 
  1910. 
  

  

  28132 
  to 
  28135. 
  

  

  Material 
  being 
  grown 
  at 
  the 
  Subtropical 
  Garden, 
  Miami, 
  Fla., 
  to 
  be 
  used 
  in 
  plant- 
  

   breeding 
  work. 
  Numbered 
  June 
  13, 
  1910. 
  

   Plants 
  of 
  the 
  following; 
  notes 
  by 
  Mr. 
  P. 
  J. 
  Wester: 
  

  

  28132. 
  Anona 
  reticulata 
  L. 
  Custard-apple. 
  

   "Bud 
  wood 
  secured 
  in 
  Nassau, 
  New 
  Providence, 
  Bahamas, 
  April, 
  1906, 
  by 
  

  

  Mr. 
  P. 
  J. 
  Wester 
  from 
  a 
  prolific 
  seedling 
  tree; 
  fruit 
  medium 
  to 
  large." 
  

  

  28133. 
  Anona 
  squamosa 
  L. 
  Sugar-apple. 
  

   "Plants 
  received 
  at 
  the 
  Subtropical 
  Garden, 
  Miami, 
  Fla., 
  April 
  23, 
  1909, 
  

  

  from 
  Dr. 
  F. 
  Franceschi, 
  Santa 
  Barbara, 
  Cal., 
  grown 
  by 
  him 
  from 
  seed 
  obtained 
  

   in 
  Paraguay, 
  South 
  America." 
  

  

  28134. 
  Psidium 
  guajava 
  L. 
  Guava. 
  

   "Bud 
  wood 
  obtained 
  by 
  Mr. 
  P. 
  J. 
  Wester 
  from 
  a 
  seedling 
  tree 
  owned 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

  

  J. 
  O. 
  Pardoe, 
  Biscayne, 
  Fla. 
  Fruit 
  medium 
  large, 
  yellowish; 
  flesh, 
  pale 
  red; 
  

   208 
  

  

  