﻿APKIL 
  1 
  TO 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1911. 
  17 
  

  

  30513. 
  Nicotiana 
  tabacum 
  L. 
  Tobacco. 
  

  

  From 
  Manicaragua, 
  Santa 
  Clara, 
  Cuba. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Francisco 
  A. 
  Montero, 
  

   Santa 
  Clara, 
  Santa 
  Clara 
  Province, 
  Cuba. 
  Received 
  April 
  18, 
  1911. 
  

   ' 
  ' 
  Considered 
  by 
  experts 
  of 
  this 
  country 
  as 
  the 
  best 
  variety 
  of 
  tobacco 
  in 
  the 
  island 
  

   of 
  Cuba." 
  (Montero.) 
  

  

  30514. 
  Castilla 
  panamensis 
  Cook. 
  Central 
  American 
  rubber. 
  

  

  From 
  Panama. 
  Collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Pittier, 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Plant 
  Industry. 
  Re- 
  

   ceived 
  April 
  20, 
  1911. 
  

   One 
  of 
  the 
  six 
  rubber-producing 
  trees 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  native 
  to 
  Panama, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  

   collected 
  by 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  Biological 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  Canal 
  Zone. 
  

   Seeds. 
  

  

  30515. 
  Passiflora 
  edulis 
  Sims. 
  Passion 
  fruit. 
  

  

  From 
  Raratonga, 
  Cook 
  Islands. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  North 
  Winship, 
  American 
  

   consul, 
  Tahiti, 
  Society 
  Islands. 
  Received 
  April 
  20, 
  1911. 
  

   "These 
  fruits 
  are 
  not 
  grown 
  in 
  Tahiti, 
  but 
  are 
  imported 
  as 
  a 
  table 
  fruit." 
  (Win- 
  

   ship.) 
  

  

  30516 
  to 
  30521. 
  

  

  From 
  Buitenzorg, 
  Java. 
  Presented 
  by 
  the 
  Director 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  Received 
  

   April 
  21, 
  1911. 
  

   Seeds 
  of 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  30516 
  and 
  30517. 
  Talauma 
  mutabilis 
  Blume. 
  

  

  30516. 
  See 
  No. 
  28794 
  for 
  previous 
  introduction. 
  

  

  30517. 
  Variety 
  longifolia. 
  

   30518 
  to 
  30521. 
  Diosbyros 
  spp. 
  

  

  These 
  species 
  were 
  introduced 
  for 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  testing 
  all 
  the 
  procurable 
  

   species 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  as 
  stocks 
  for 
  the 
  better 
  varieties 
  and 
  for 
  breeding 
  purposes. 
  

  

  30518. 
  Diospyros 
  discolor 
  Willd. 
  

  

  30519. 
  Diospyros 
  sp. 
  

  

  30520. 
  Diospyros 
  cauliflora 
  Blume. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  At 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  500 
  feet 
  on 
  the 
  calcareous 
  mountains 
  

   in 
  the 
  province 
  of 
  Bantam, 
  Java. 
  

  

  30521. 
  Diospyros 
  macrophylla 
  Blume. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  slopes 
  of 
  the 
  mountains 
  in 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Java. 
  

  

  30522 
  to 
  30584. 
  

  

  From 
  Tiflis, 
  Caucasus, 
  Russia. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  Rolloff, 
  director, 
  Botanic 
  

   Garden. 
  Received 
  April 
  18, 
  1911. 
  

   Seeds 
  of 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  30522. 
  Paeonia 
  corallina 
  Retz. 
  Peony. 
  

   Distribution. 
  — 
  Central 
  and 
  southern 
  Europe, 
  and 
  eastward 
  to 
  Armenia 
  and 
  

  

  northern 
  Persia. 
  

  

  30523. 
  Paeonia 
  mlokosewitschi 
  Lomakin. 
  Peony. 
  

  

  See 
  No. 
  27674 
  for 
  previous 
  introduction. 
  

  

  30524. 
  Castalia 
  alba 
  (L.) 
  Greene. 
  Water 
  lily. 
  

   Distribution. 
  — 
  Lakes 
  and 
  slow 
  streams 
  throughout 
  Europe, 
  and 
  in 
  northern 
  

  

  and 
  central 
  Asia. 
  

  

  30224°— 
  Bui. 
  242—12 
  2 
  

  

  