APRIL 1 TO JUNE 3 ; 193 9 35 



132874 to 132883. 



From India. Plants collected at Saharanpur by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received May 14, 1937. Numbered in May 1939. 



132874. Baebingtonia acutangula (L.) Gaertn. Lecythidaceae. 



A medium-sized evergreen tree witb obovate leaves about 5 inches long 

 and pendulous racemes of small pink flowers. The wood is soft and white 

 with a pretty silver grain and is used for furniture. Native to India. 



For previous introduction see 116718. 



132875. Eeytheina sp. Fabaceae. 



Received under the name "blackii," for which a place of publication has 

 not been found. 



132876. Ixora tjndulata Roxb. Rubiaceae. 



A large evergreen shrub or small tree with thin, undulate lanceolate leaves 

 5 to 9 inches long and spreading, pyramidal or rounded corymbs of small 

 greenish-white flowers. Native to India. 



132877. Ixoea sp. 



132878. Jasminum pubescens (Retz.) Willd. Oleaceae. Slender jasmine. 



A climbing or scrambling hairy shrub from Borneo. The opposite, narrow- 

 ovate leaves are bright green above and pubescent beneath, and the fragrant 

 white flowers, 1 inch across, are in large dense hanging heads. 



132879. Jasminum sambac (L.) Ait. Arabian jasmine. 



Arabian jasmine is cultivated in India for the sake of the oil obtained from 

 the fragrant flowers ; it is used in perfumery. 



For previous introduction see 61230. 



132880. Gaesalpinia pulcheeeima (L.) Swartz. Caesalpiniaceae. 



Flowerfence. 



For previous introduction see 114869. 



132881. Shobea robtjsta Gaertn. f. Dipterocarpaceae. Salt-tree. 



A large, resinous, gregarious forest tree up to 100 feet high or sometimes 

 stunted, with large, oblong-ovate leaves and pale-yellow flowers y 2 inch long 

 in lax terminal panicles. It is valued for its teaklike wood. Native to India. 



132882. Fiemiana colorata (Roxb.) R. Br. (Sterculia color ata Roxb.). Ster- 

 culiaceae. 



A small deciduous tree, native to tropical Asia, with large roundish 3-lobed 

 leaves and small, very numerous, vivid orange-scarlet flowers which appear 

 in dense terminal panicles before the leaves. The tree is quick growing and 

 probably flowers very young. 



For previous introduction see 124731. 



132883. Steeculia sp. Sterculiaceae. 



132884. Anthurium dominicense Scliott. Araceae. 



From Puerto Rico. Plants collected in the Marine Insular Forest, near the 

 Mayaguez Experiment Station, by H. P. Traub, Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Received August 1, 1935. Numbered in May 1939. 



A terrestrial or epiphytic anthurium with a short stem, rosulate leaves, the 

 oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate blades 8 to 16 inches long, and a spadix of 

 globular, reddish berries. Native to the West Indies. 



132885. Chamaedorea sp. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



From Mexico. Plants presented by W. E. Sexton, Vero Beach, Fla., through the 

 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. Received July 18, 1935. Num- 

 bered in May 1939. 



