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103724 to 103732— Continued. 



103730. Oncosperma fasciculatum Thwaites. 



The Katu-kitul palm of Indo-Malaya is one of 

 the graceful cluster palms which make magnifi- 

 cent groups 40 to 60 feet high in the Peradeniya 

 Gardens. The stems are spiny, making it unsuit- 

 able for small gardens, but it is useful for large 

 parks. 



For previous introduction see 94090. 



103731. Phoenicophorium borsigianuh (Koch) 

 Stuntz. 



This noble palm, famous for its beauty, is native 

 to the Seychelles Islands. The mature palm is 

 wholly destitute of spines, whereas in the young 

 state the deep orange-red petioles are clothed with 

 black needlelike spines 1 to 3 inches long. The 

 young leaves are orange beneath and mottled with 

 orange spots above. The difference between the 

 young and the mature plants is so great that the 

 uninitiated would consider them different species. 

 The flower spike is from 3 to 6 feet long, divided 

 into numerous slender branches, swollen at the 

 base and densely covered above with yellow 

 flowers, each about one-fourth of an inch in 

 diameter. 



For previous introduction see 103002. 



103732. Phoenix zeylanica (Trimen.). 



Ceylon date palm. 



A pinnate-leaved palm, native to Ceylon, with 

 a stem 8 to 20 feet high and a crown of rather short 

 leaves made up of numerous linear-lanceolate, 

 light-green leaflets 7 to 10 inches long. The 

 obovoid-oblong, violet-blue, edible fruits are one- 

 half inch long. 



For previous introduction see 93325. 



103733. Euphorbia sp. Euphorbia- 

 ceae. Spurge. 



From India. Seeds collected on the northern 

 slopes of the Wyndhian Mountains, Jhansi 

 Division, United Provinces, and presented by 

 Dr. Leon Croizat, New York, N. Y. Received 

 September 5, 1933. 



Tuhahr. Of possible value as a rubber plant. 



103734. Caryota cumingii Lodd. 

 Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



From Cuba. Seedlings presented by RoDert M. 

 Grey, superintendent, Atkins Institution of the 

 Arnold Arboretum, Soledad, Cienfuegos, through 

 F. G. Walsingham. Received September 5, 

 1933. 



A palm, native to the Philippine Islands, with a 

 tall, stout, spineless ringed trunk about 20 feet high 

 and a few spreading bipinnate leaves and small 

 globular fruits. 



For previous introduction see 72950. 



103735 to 103738. Macadamia terni- 

 folia F. Muell. Proteaceae. 



Queensland-nut. 



From Australia. Seeds presented by S. M. Greer, 

 Murwillumbah, Tweed Rio, New South Wales. 

 Received September 5, 1933. 



An evergreen tree up to 50 feet high, native to 

 shady jungles in the eastern part of Australia 

 where the soil is rich and the annual rainfall is 

 over 60 inches. It is cultivated for its edible nuts, 

 which have sweet white flesh with the flavor of 

 chestnuts, incased in a shell that is typically very 

 hard. 



103735. A variety with a thin shell. 



103736. An everbearing variety. 



103737. Mammoth. 



103738. A variety with a medium hard shell and 

 large nuts. 



103739. Guilielma utilis Oerst. 

 Phoenicaceae. Pejibaye, 



From Cuba. Seeds presented by Robert M. Grey, 

 superintendent, Atkins Institution of the Arnold 

 Arboretum, Soledad, Cienfuegos, through F. G. 

 Walsingham. Received September 5, 1933. 



A pinnate-leaved palm, native to tropical regions 

 of the 'Western Hemisphere. Its straight slender 

 stem, about 6 inches in diameter, becomes 60 feet 

 high and is armed from the ground upward with 

 stiff, very sharp, black spines about 2 inches long. 

 The racemes, 18 to 24 inches long, of small sessile 

 yellow-white flowers are produced from the trunk 

 of the palm immediately below or among the lower 

 leaves and are protected by erect spathes. When 

 the fruit is mature the raceme weighs over 25 

 pounds, and often 5 or 6 such racemes are produced 

 in a single crop. The individual fruits are conical 

 or ovoid, vary from 1 to 2 inches in length, and 

 have dry mealy flesh of a pale-orange or yellow color. 

 It is one of the important food plants of the Tropics. 



For previous introduction see 65054. 



103740 and 103741. 



From Arizona. Seeds presented by the Boyce 

 Thompson Southwestern Arboretum, Superior, 

 through F. J. Crider. Received April 9, 1932. 

 Numbered in September 1934. 



103740. Ferocactus wislizeni (Englm.) Brittj 

 and Rose. Cactaceae. 



A large cactus, at first globular, but becoming 

 cylindric and finally reaching a height of over 5 

 feet when old. The numerous ribs, often 25 or 

 more, are 1J4 inches high, beset with brown-felted 

 areoles from which arise subulate, strongly hooked 

 red or white spines about 2 inches long. The 

 yellow or sometimes red flowers are over 2 inches 

 long, and the oblong yellow fruits are nearly as 

 long as the flowers. Native to northern Mexico 

 and the southwestern United States. 



103741. Neomammillaria macdougalii (Rose) 

 Britt. and Rose. Cactaceae. 



A flattened globular cactus 3 to 4 inches' in 

 diameter, with a carrot-shaped root. The axils 

 of the flattened, somewhat-angled tubercles often 

 bear long white wool, and from the tops of the 

 tubercles appear 10 to 12 radial spines, white or 

 yellowish, and about one-half inch long. The 

 cream-colored flowers are an inch or more long 

 and are followed by club-shaped red fruits. 

 Native to southeastern Arizona. 



103742. Blighia sapida Koen. Sapin- 

 daceae. Akee. 



From Trinidad. Seeds presented by H. Bruins- 

 Lich, Department of Agriculture. Received 

 September 11, 1933. 



A tree, native to the Guinea Coast of Africa, which 

 has become naturalized in the West Indies. The 

 triangular bright-red capsule contains shiny black 

 seeds, each partly surrounded by a yellow fleshy 

 aril. The fruit is said to be poisonous when im- 

 mature or overripe, but the fleshy portion (aril) is 

 eaten after being boiled or fried. 



For previous introduction see 102278. 



103743. COLUTEA ORIENTALIS Mill. 



Fabaceae. Oriental bladder-senna. 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 

 Seeds presented by the director of the Tiflis 

 Botanic Garden, Tiflis, Georgia. Received 

 January 7, 1932. Numbered in September 1933. 



A shrub 6 to 8 feet high, with pubescent branch- 

 lets, native to the Caucasus region. The com- 

 pound leaves are made up of 7 to 11 broadly ovate 

 leaflets 4 to 6 inches long. The pea-shaped, red- 

 brown flowers, in racemes of 2 to 5, are followed by 

 bladdery pods 1 to 2 inches long, usually suffused 

 with violet purple. 



