﻿10 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



39315 to 39317— Con. (Quoted notes by Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell.) 



39317. Rosa angustiarum Cockerell. Rosaceae. Rose. 

 "From Wood Mountain, Colo., September, 1914 (D. M. Andrews). 



Published as Rosa pratincola angustiarum in Daniels' Flora of Boulder, 

 Colo., and Vicinity (University of Missouri Studies, 1911, p. 148). 1 

 now consider it a distinct species. The fruits vary in shape on the 

 same branch." 



39318 and 39319. 



From Burringbar, New South Wales, Australia. Presented by Mr. B. Har- 

 rison. Received October 1, 1914. 



39318. Angophoba lanceolata Cavanilles. Myrtacese. Apple myrtle. 

 "An evergreen tree found in New South Wales and Queensland, 24 to 



36 inches in diameter, 70 to 80 feet in height. The tree produces a kino 

 or gum which, when freshly exuded, has (like other Angophora and a few 

 Eucalyptus kinos) a smell like sour wine, but more disagreeable. Even 

 when quite freshly exuded it is exceedingly brittle. It has a bright frac- 

 ture, and is of a ruby color, with a tinge of brown. Color of powder 

 orange-brown. Water acts but slowly upon it, forming a pale reddish 

 brown solution, and leaving abundance of sediment. Timber strong, 

 heavy, subject to gum veins ; used for naves of wheels, slabs, rough build- 

 ing, and fuel." (Maiden, Useful Native Plants of Aust?~alia, pp. 236 

 and 376.) 



39319. Chenopodium sp. Chenopodiaceoe. 



" Said to grow tc a height of 11 feet in arid country ; a splendid fod- 

 der for dairy stock." {Harrison.) 



39320 to 39323. Maltjs sylvestris Miller. Malacese. Apple. 



(Piirus mains L.) 

 From Santiago, Chile. Presented by Senor Salvador Izquierdo. 

 " These scions are of apple varieties which are free from the woolly aphis 

 and are cultivated with much success in Santa Ines." (Izquierdo.) 



39320. No. 993. Gobemador Civ it. 39322. No. 994. Huidobro. 



39321. No. 991. Esq uisita de 39323. No. 984. Admirable de 



Saiita Ines. Otoilo. 



39324 and 39325. 



From Allahabad, India. Presented by Mr. William Bembower, Ewing 

 Christian College. Received October 8, 1914. 



39324. Diospyros nigricans Wallich. Diospyraceae. 



"A tree 50 feet high, with many lax cinereous, glabrescent branches; 

 young shoots and petioles minutely puberulous. Leaves oval oblong, 

 much acuminate at apex, somewhat narrowed at base, alternate, turning 

 black when dry, firmly membranous, glabrous, except on midrib which 

 is puberulous and depressed on the upper surface ; lateral veins and net 

 veins delicate, not conspicuous above; 3 to 5 inches long by 1 to If 

 inches wide ; petioles one-tenth to one-seventh inch long. 



"Male plants. Flowers in few flowered (3 to 6) short axillary 

 puberulous cymes, subsessile, one-quarter to one-third inch long, bracts 

 small, imbricated. Calyx with scattered short ferruginous hairs out- 

 side, shortly 4-lobed. Corolla with few scattered short hairs outside, 



