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The seed is roasted or popped, ground into meal, and made into sweet cakes. 

 The meal is also said to be eaten with sugar and milk. 



For previous introduction see S. P. I. Nos. 45811 and 46310. 



47860. Amherstia nobilis Wall. Csesalpiniacese. 



From Sibpur, near Calcutta, India. Presented by the curator, Royal 

 Botanic Garden. Received June 30, 1919. 



Named in honor of Lady Amherst. A medium-sized tree, native to Burma, 

 and considered the most beautiful of all flowering trees. Its immense condela- 

 brumlike sprays of red and yellow flowers drooping from every branch among 

 the handsome foliage present an appearance of astonishing elegance and loveli- 

 ness. It is in flower during the greater part of the year, but its chief flowering 

 season in Ceylon is from January to April, i. e., the dry season. It produces 

 seed very scantily anywhere, a pod or two occasionally being all that can be 

 obtained, and even these are often infertile. Propagation by layering, there- 

 fore, has to be adopted. (Adapted from Macmillan, Handbook of Tropical 

 Gardening and Planting, p. 291.) 



47861 to 47864. Citktjs spp. Kutacese. 



From Buitenzorg, Java. Presented by Dr. P. J. S. Cramer, chief, Plant- 

 Breeding Station. Received June 30, 1919. 



47861. Citeus geandis (L.) Osbeck. Pummelo, 

 (C decumana Murr.) 



47862. Citeus sp. 47864. Citeus sp. 

 Djeroek nipis. Djeroek manis. 



47863. Citeus sp. 

 Djeroek garoet. 



