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138955. Gossypium. Malvaceae. Cotton. 



From Massachusetts. Seeds presented by the Gray Herbarium, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge. Received August 19, 1940. 



C. B. 1^09. Seeds originally received from Argentina. 



138956. Cyrtosperma merkusii Schott. Araceae. 



From the Philippine Islands. Collected by Dr. David Fairchild, Coconut Grove, 

 Florida. Received August 21, 1940. 



No. 452. 



138957 to 138960. 



From Iran. Seeds collected by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry, United 

 States Department of Agriculture. Received August 20, 1940. 



138957 to 138959. Prunus avium L. Amygdalaceae. Sweet cherry. 



138957. No. 6154. Gelas. From Tehran, June 14, 1940. Fruit % inch in 

 diameter, red, good flavor. 



138958. No. 6201. Gelas. From Tehran, June 21, 1940. A large, crimson 

 variety. 



138959. No. 6208. Gelas. From Tehran, June 22, 1940. A firm, "black" 

 variety. 



138960. Prunus sp. 



No. 6155. From Burujird, Luristan, May 26, 1940. 



138961 to 138964. 



From Haiti. Seeds collected by H. F. Loomis and T. A. Fennell, Service Tech- 

 nique, Fond-des-Negres. Received August 15, 1940. 



138961. Acrocomia aculeata Lodd. Phoenicaceae. Grugru palm. 



A beautiful spiny-trunked palm, with slightly arching fronds bearing 

 crowded, narrow, drooping pinnae held at various angles to the upper sur- 

 face of the rachis. This is the first record of the species from the Southern 

 Peninsula of Haiti; several of the palms being found at Habitation Deron, 

 between Beaumont and Rivier Glace, where the native name is Cocotier. 



For previous introduction see 93528. 



138962. Bornoa crassispatha (Mart.) Cook. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



A magnificent, pinnate-leaved palm, somewhat resembling the coconut, but 

 attaining greater size and having a straight trunk ; the leaves are arranged 

 somewhat more on edge and are darker green. The very large, compact 

 fruit-cluster from which the seeds were gathered weighed more than 40 

 pounds and was estimated to have had 1,500 to 2,000 fruits that were bright 

 yellow when fully ripe. 



138963. Bornoa sp. Palm. 



Similar to Bornoa crassispatha, but the spathes are longer, more slender, 

 and do not open as widely over the fruit cluster. The fruit clusters are 

 smaller, with smaller fruits, fewer in number on the branches of the spadix ; 

 the terminal or male portion of the branches is longer. The palms here are 

 known as Cocoroz or Cocorosse. 



138964. Geonoma OXYCARPA Mart. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 



A slender palm, with a slender, very stiff trunk, 7 to 8 feet high, growing 

 in moist woods on the higher mountains. The leaves are unevenly pinnate, 

 with the pinnae usually segregated in several individual groups on each 

 side of the rachis. The small fruits are bluish black. The common name of 

 this palm is Coco-macaque. 



