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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



99576 to 99650— Continued. 



99585. Lodoicea sonnerati (Giseke) Baill. (L. 

 sechcllarum Labill.). Phoenicaceae. 



Double coconut. 



Seeds from the Georgetown Botanic Garden, 

 British Guiana, February, 1932. A loity palm, 

 frequently 100 feet in height, with palmate leaves 

 the blades of which are 6 feet across. The fruits 

 are probably the largest known, the individual 

 nuts sometimes weighing 50 pounds; from the 

 time of flowering to the full maturity of the seeds 

 is said to cover a period of 10 years, and the palm 

 itself does not attain full growth until after a hun- 

 dred years. It is native to the Seychelles. 



For previous introduction see 65048. 



99586. Phryganocydia corymbosa (Vent.) Bur. 

 (Macfadyena corymbosa Vent.). Bignoniaceae. 



No. 2888. Plants presented by R. O. Williams, 

 of the Botanic Garden, Trinidad, February 16, 

 1932. A rampant climber which covers the trees 

 with a mass of dark-green foliage and several times 

 a year with masses of large funnel-shaped flowers 3 

 inches in diameter and 3 inches long, mauve in 

 color with a white throat and hooded yellow-green 

 calyx. 



99587 to 99593. Mangifera indica L. Anacar- 

 diaceae. Mango . 



Nos. 99587 to 99592 were plants presented by M. 

 Desire Kervegant, Jardin d'Essais, Fort-de- 

 France, Martinique, March 10, 1932. The West 

 Indian varieties of mango appear to be, all of them, 

 more or less stringy and of small size, but they 

 have the reputation of being regular bearers in the 

 drier parts of the various islands and to flower and 

 fruit even where the ground never really dries out. 



99587. No. 3732. Amelie, a variety which turns 

 red if exposed to the bright sunlight. 



. No. 3731. Divine, an oblong mango with- 

 out a prominent heel. A rather early yellow 

 fruit with a red blush when ripened in sun- 

 light; not fiberless nor one of the best but 

 prolific. 



99589. No. 3735. Julie, considered probably the 

 best shipping mango of the West Indies and 

 commonly propagated by inarching. It is a 

 squarish wedge-shaped variety that in the 

 sunlight colors up with a red blush with an 

 aromatic flavor. 



99590. No. 3736. Martiy, a selected seedling 

 from the Tivoli garden. 



99591. No. 3733. Precinette. 



99592. No. 3734. Sans Pareil, a selected seedling 

 grown in the Tivoli garden. 



No. 3821. T'in. Fruit purchased in the 

 market at Basse Terre, Gaudeloupe, March 

 12, 1932. A very good yellow mango of me- 

 dium size and thick round form with flesh 

 much darker than the rind and of excellent 

 quality. Fibers are short and not objection- 

 able, seed small and rather thin leaving a 

 large amount of flesh. 



99594. Martinezia corallina Mart. Phoeni- 

 caceae. Palm. 



No. 2888. Gri Gri or fishlait palm, a plant from 

 the Avena Forest Reserve, Trinidad, February 

 16, 1932. A spiny palm with pinnate leaves about 

 9 feet long and clusters, 2 to 3 feet long, of small 

 white flowers, followed by bright-red fruits nearly 

 1 inch in diameter. The pale-brown seeds are 

 used for necklaces by the natives of Martinique 

 where this palm is native. 



For previous introduction see 81929. 



99595. Monodora tenuifolia Benth. Annon- 

 aceae. 



No. 2871. A plant presented by R. O. Williams. 

 Botanic Garden, Trinidad, February 16, 1932, 



99576 to 99650— Continued. 



A tropical African tree or large shrub which 

 flowers when the leaves have fallen and bears 

 masses of flowers as showy as orchids, with white 

 petals shading to yellow at the base and with 

 crimson markings. 



For previous introduction see 72437. 



99596. Monstera 



Araceae. 



No. 2753. Plants from the Dominican Botanic 

 Garden, January 29, 1932. An ornamental vine, 

 native to Dominica, with deep glossy green leaves 

 with few holes. The leaves are smaller and nar- 

 rower than those of M. dehciosa. 



99597. Monstera sp. Araceae. 



No. 2754. Plants from the St. Vincent Botanic 

 Garden, February 4, 1932, and called by T. Jack- 

 son, the curator of the garden, the "native spe- 

 cies." It differs from M. deliriosa in having 

 smaller, narrower leaves with few holes. It 

 appears to be distinct also from no. 2753 [99596]. 



and 99599. Montrichardia arborescens 

 (L.) Schott. Araceae. 



A tall-growing aroid forming dense thickets on 

 low land near the sea and sometimes rising 10 

 feet with its treelike woody stems. 



99598. No. 2948. Plants from Tobago, Wind- 

 ward Islands, February 20, 1932. 



No. 2997. Mokka Mokkn. Seeds from 

 the Sophia Sugar Station, British Guiana, 

 February 25, 1932. 



99600. Mora excelsa Benth. Caesalpiniaceae. 



No. 2916. Plants from the mora forest of eastern 

 Trinidad, February 18, 1932. A large forest tree, 

 native to Guiana. The abruptly pinnate leaves 

 are made up of 3 to 4 pairs of blunt leaflets 5 to 8 

 inches long, and the small flowers, borne in cylin- 

 drical spikes 6 to 10 inches long, are followed by 

 oblong woody pods 3 to 6 inches long, each con- 

 taining one seed. 



For previous introduction see 99000. 



99601. Moraea sp. Iridaceae. 



No. 2557. Plants presented by D. Lawrence, 

 Nassau, New Providence Island, January 2, 1932. 

 A plant with large coarse leaves over 3 feet tall, 

 with single delicate blue and white and yellow- 

 tinted fragrant sessile flowers about 3 inches in 

 diameter arising singly from the leaves. 



99602 and 99603. Mussaenda spp. Rubiaceae. 



Plants presented by R. O. Williams, of the 

 Botanic Garden, Trinidad, February 17, 1932. 



99602. Mussaenda erythrophylla Schum. 

 and Thonn. 



No. 2875. A shade-loving scandent shrub? 

 when in flower its brilliant scarlet bracts make 

 it a remarkable sight. These bracts are en- 

 larged sepals; one sepal in each flower cluster 

 enlarges until it is 3 inches long and the size of 

 an ordinary leaf and turns deep scarlet. 



For previous introduction see 76700. 



99603. Mussaenda luteola Delile. 



No. 2909. A dwarf species of Rubiaceae, with 

 small yellow flowers and large white bractlike 

 sepals which are very showy. It reminds one 

 somewhat of our northern dogwood. 



For previous introduction see 66228. 



99604. Nannorrhops ritchieana (Griffith) 

 Wendl. Phoenicaceae. Mazri palm. 



No. 2804. Plants collected in the Botanic Gar- 

 den, Grenada, February 10, 1932. A very rare 

 cluster palm, native to Afghanistan and western 

 India, which appears to be as hardy as the true 

 date palm or more so. The leaves are very glau- 



