14 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 143 



136628 to 136646— Continued. 



136640. Pangium edule Reinw. Flacourtiaceae. 



No. 155. From Mount Apo National Park, Malasila, Mindanao, January 21, 1940. 

 For previous introduction see 135446. 



136641. Pinanga sp. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



No. 161. From a forest at Malasila, Mindanao, January 22, 1940. The attractive 

 fruits are borne in immense clusters. 



136642. Pinanga sp. Palm. 



No. 154. From along Taguni River, January 21, 1940. A slender pinnate-leaved 

 palm of medium height, with the leaflets bipartite down to \^ their length. The 

 young leaflets are mottled as in Pinanga maculata. The fruit cluster, about 2 feet 

 long, bears more than a thousand small fruits % inch long, brilliant red at first, 

 becoming silky black when ripe. 



136643. Callicarpa cumingiana Schauer. Verbenaceae. 



No. 157. January 1, 1940. A rather low stocky tree with an umbrella-shaped 

 crown and scattered, oblong to elliptic, stout-petioled leaves, the medium-sized 

 blades about 8 inches long. The small whitish flowers, in paniculate corymbs 

 about 4 inches across in the upper leaf axils, are followed by shiny, red, globose fruits 

 3^ inch in diameter. Native to the Philippine Islands. 



136644. Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth. Fabaceae. 



No. 159. From Cotabato-Davao, Mindanao, January 21, 1940. A twining, semi- 

 shrubby plant, densely covered with brown hairs. The leaflets are green above and 

 densely matted beneath with gray hairs, and the reddish flowers are in long-stemmed 

 racemes. Native to tropical regions of the Himalayas. 



For previous introduction see 133962. 



136645. (Undetermined.) 



No. 163. From near Cotabato, Mindanao, January 22, 1940. A shrub bearing 

 only a few attractive, yellow, tubular flowers, followed by hard yellow fruits. 



136646. Pittosporum sp. Pittosporaceae. 



No. 139. From Tagapulo Island, Samar Sea, January 12, 1940. An ornamental 

 shrub of open habit, 12 feet high with large glossy leaves. The deep-orange, egg- 

 shaped fruits are in terminal clusters of four to six. 



136647 to 136660. 



From England. Trees purchased from Thompson & Morgan, Ipswich. Received 

 April 18, 1940. 



136647. Amygdalus persica L. Amygdalaceae. Peach. 

 Russell's Red. 



136648 to 136652. Malus sylvestris Mill. Malaceae. Apple. 



136648. Beauty of Kent. 136651. Juneating. 



136649. Fearn's Pippin. 136652. Kerry Pippin. 



136650. James Kirk. 



135553. Malus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh. 



Golden Gem. 



136654. Malus toringoides (Rehder) Hughes. Cutleaf crab. 



A shrub or small tree, up to 25 feet high, with oval 4-lobed leaves, and hand- 

 some fruits about half an inch long, yellow, usually with a red cheek. Native to 

 western China. 



For previous introduction see 77840. 



136655 and 136656. Prunus cerasifera var. atropurpurea Jager. Amygda- 

 laceae. 



136655. Hazeldene.. 136656. Nigra. 



