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39682 to 39690— Continued. 



tinct, often 20 to 60 flowered. Corolla pubescent, deep red." (Booker, 

 Flora of British India, vol. J h p. 597.) 



Of similar value perhaps to C. mast acanthus. 



39687. Hoya globui.osa Hook. f. Asclepiadacese. 



Distribution. — A stout, handsome, asclepiadaceous climber with orbicu- 

 lar leaves and umbels of cream-colored flowers, found up to an altitude 

 of 3,000 feet in the Himalayas of Sikkim and Assam, in India, and suc- 

 ceeding under the same treatment as H. carnosa. 



39688. Triumfetta pilosa Roth. Tiliaceae. Burweed. 

 An herbaceous hairy or bristly tropical weed with yellow flowers in 



dense cymes. 



39689. Erianthus rtjfipilus (Steud.) Griseb. Poacese. 



(Erianthus fulvus Nees.) 



"A perennial grass found in the temperate Himalayas at altitudes of 

 5.000 to 7.000 feet. Stems 6 to 8 feet high, silky hairy just above the 

 panicle. The leaves are 2 to 3 feet long and one-fourth inch to 1 inch 

 wide, slightly rough and with the margins of the sheath hairy. Panicle 

 8 to 18 inches, grey white or tinged with purple. Spikelets about one- 

 tenth inch long with the basal hairs 3 to 4 times as long as the spikelets."' 

 (Collett, Flora Simlensis.) 



Introduced for the work of the Office of Forage-Crop Investigations. 



39690. Neyratjdia madagascariexsis (Kunth) Hook. f. Poaceae. 



"A species found on the plains of north India, ascending to 5,000 feet, 

 throughout tropical Asia and Africa and Madagascar. A perennial 

 grass with leafy, solid stem 6 to 10 feet high. The leaves are flat, 1 or 



2 feet long and up to 1 inch wide, with base clasping the stem. Ligule 

 very short and hairy. Spikelets purple-brown, narrow, slightly flattened, 

 one-fourth to one-third inch long, 4 to 8 flowered (flowers all fertile 

 except sometimes the uppermost), in a shining silky erect panicle 1 to 



3 feet long. The branches are in half whorls and more or less spread- 

 ing." (Collett, Flora Simlensis.) 



39691 to 39693. Tamarix spp. Tamaricaceae. Tamarisk. 



From Caucasus, Russia. Presented by the Tiflis Botanic Garden. Received 

 January 7, 1915. 



39691. Tamarix hohenackeri Bunge. 



39692. Tamarix pentaxdra Pallas. 



" This shrub or small tree is one of the most decorative tamarisks in 

 cultivation, flowering in great profusion in July and August. In the 

 wild state it ranges from the Balkan Peninsula through southern Rus- 

 sia to Turkestan, and from Asia Minor to Persia, adorning the banks of 

 rivers, particularly in their lower reaches and estuaries. Like other 

 species of this genus, it thrives well in saline soils, but is by no means 

 dependent on a more than ordinary amount of salts in the ground. The 

 flowers are usually rose-colored, but sometimes white or nearly so." 

 (Botanical Magazine, pi. 8138.) 



39693. Tamarix sp. 



