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" This variety, known in Trinidad as Chinese eddo, is very similar in appear- 

 ance to what has been previously introduced in the United States as the 

 Trinidad dasheen. The quality of the specimens received is excellent." (R. A. 

 Young.) 



46789. Kosa gentiliana Lev. and Van. Kosacese. Rose. 



From England. Presented by Sir David Prain, director of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew. Received December 3, 1918. 



*A plant grown from a cutting supplied by Sir William Thiselton-Dyer." 

 (Prain.) 



A rose which is abundant in the mountainous regions of western Hupeh and 

 eastern Szechwan, where it forms tangled masses 6 meters or more in height. 

 The numerous large white flowers are very fragrant, and the anthers are golden 

 yellow. The species is easily distinguished by its glabrous, pale-gray shoots and 

 the 3 to 5 foliolate leaves, which are shining green above and very pallid beneath. 

 (Adapted from Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 2, p. 812.) 



Received as Rosa cerasocarpa Rolfe, which is referred to R. gentiliana in 

 Plantae Wilsonianae. 



46790. Dialyaxtheka otoba (H. B. K.) Warb. Myristicacese. 



(Myristica otoba H. B. K.) 



From Colombia. Presented by Mr. M. T. Dawe, Estacion Agronomica 

 Tropical, San Lorenzo. Received December 3, 1918. 

 "A few days ago, in a local market, I came across a kind of butter or fat, 

 known as otoba, which the people here very much prize as a remedy for sores 

 and skin diseases in cattle, and also for the eradication of ticks. I am also 

 informed that persons suffering from eruptions take pills of this substance, 

 it is said, with beneficial results. Otoba finds a ready sale in the local markets 

 at from 30 to 50 cents per pound. The fat or butter is prepared from the seeds 

 of Myristica otoba, a large forest tree of the Cordillera in this region, at 

 about 5,000 feet altitude. The seeds when cut open have a distinct and agreeable 

 odor which is imparted to the butter when prepared." {Dawe.) 



46791 to 46793. 



From Angola, Africa. Presented by Mr. J. Gossweiler, Servicos de Agri- 

 cultura, Loanda. Received December 3, 1918. 



46791. Albizzia welwitschii Oliver. Mimosacese. 



An unarmed, tropical African tree, sometimes 80 feet high, with a 

 spreading, truncate crown. The doubly pinnate leaves are made up of 

 three to five pairs of pinme, each bearing four to eight pairs of obliquely 

 ovate, glabrous, shining leaflets from 1 to 2 inches long. The flowers 

 are borne in axillary corymbs and are followed by thin, subcoriaceous, 

 slightly curved pods 4 to 5 inches long. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora of 

 Tropical Africa, vol. 2, p. 362.) 



46792. Aloe littoealis Baker. Liliacese. 

 Growing in the coast region of Angola, Africa, this aloe is a shrub 



often 10 feet tall with a simple trunk as thick as a man's arm. The 

 leaves, arranged in dense rosettes, are sword shaped, 2 to 3 feet long, 

 with spreading, horny, marginal teeth. The inflorescence is a panicle 4 

 to 5 feet long with branches of cylindrical racemes 1 foot long, densely 

 crowded with the short-pediceled flowers. (Adapted from Oliver, Flora 

 of Tropical Africa, vol. 7, p. .'/67.) 



