﻿6 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



Rosa gentiliana (No. 47359) was presented by Lady Harriet Thisel- 

 ton-Dyer, from her Gloucester home in England, in April, 1919. Dr. 

 Van Fleet, who has a bush of this species at Bell, Md., predicts that 

 it will have a great future in the Southern States, and he has urged 

 its wide distribution there. 



The Guatemala grass {Tripsacum laxum, No. 47396), first intro- 

 duced by Mr. G. N. Collins, has made a satisfactory growth in south- 

 ern Florida and seems promising as a forage grass there. 



A variety of bush Lima bean (No. 47447), selected since 1876 by 

 Mr. Harkness at Iroquois, Ontario, and now adapted to cultivation in 

 regions with a season too short for the ordinary strains of this 

 vegetable, is presented to American growers. 



The success of certain African species of trees in southern Florida 

 makes worthy of special mention the arrival of a collection (Nos. 

 47496 to 47503) which includes: A new species of Erythrina (E. 

 ewcelsa, No. 47498), with gorgeous scarlet flowers; a fragrant-flow- 

 ered tree related to the Annona (Monodora myristica, No. 47500), 

 with floAvers 6 inches across; an ornamental leguminous tree (Pahu- 

 dia africana. No. 47501) with dense racemes of fragrant blossoms; 

 and a new species of Spathodea (S. nilotica. No. 47502). related to 

 /S. campanidata, which is already a common tree around Miami. 



Mr. Gossweiler has sent from Loanda, Angola, a distinctly new 

 fruit tree (Trichoscypha sp., No. 47519) which bears bunches of edi- 

 ble peachlike fruits. The tree is native to Portuguese West Africa 

 and may prove an acquisition to Porto Rican and Hawaiian horti- 

 culture. 



The acorn of Brazil (Dioscorea latifolia, No. 47564), a yam which 

 bears aerial tubers suggesting by their shape a turkey's liver, is 

 remarkable in that these tubers are excellent eating when cooked. 

 The growing interest in this group of starchy food producers may 

 make this new introduction which Sr. Argollo Ferrao has sent of 

 unusual importance. 



The discovery of a bush variety of Dolichos lablab (No. 47568) 

 by Mr. Harland, of St. Vincent, not only may make it possible to 

 use this excellent cover crop in the citrus orchards of Florida, since 

 it will not climb the trees, but also may lead to a wider use of this 

 species as a vegetable. Its beans make excellent soups and are useful 

 in many ways. 



The puka tree of New Zealand (Meryta sinclairii, No. 47570), 

 which for some time was supposed to be nearly extinct in its native 

 habitats but now is grown as an ornamental, has so interesting a his- 

 tory that amateurs who can grow it will be interested to read Mr. 

 Poynton's account of its introduction into cultivation. 



