﻿JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1916. 37 



41931 to 41945— Continued. 



41939. Pterocarptts violaceus Yog. Fabacese. 



"No. 28. Pau de sangue. Probably the same as No. 23 [S. P. I. No. 

 41936]." 



41940. Piptadenia sp. Mimosa cese. 



"No. 19. A large timber tree, with medium-hard wood. Ornamental. 

 Native name Angico franco." 



41941. Alpinia sp. Zinziberaceae. 

 (Renealmia sp.) 



" No. 30. Papatinga. An ornamental plant 2 to 4 feet high. The fruits 

 yield a black color used as an ink or dye." 



41942. Heliconia sp. Musacese. 



" No. 46. A very ornamental flowering plant which grows in dense 

 masses in moist soils by streams ; 2 to 4 feet high ; flowers red or yel- 

 lowish." 



41943. Phyllanthus acidus (L.) Skeels. Euphorbiacese. 

 {Phyllanthus distichus Muell. Arg.) 



" No. 47. An ornamental tree 20 to 40 feet high. The fruits are white 

 and used to make preserves as we preserve cherries, etc. Common in 

 cultivation. Fruits freely; two crops a year." 



41944. Youapa sp. Cresalpiniaceae. 

 {Macrolobium sp.) 



" No. 54. An ornamental timber tree growing on river banks." 



41945. Yieola sp. Myristicacese. 



"No. 41. Uciiilba. A common ornamental and timber tree of large size, 

 with brown,. medium-hard wood, well known on the Brazilian market. 

 The seed is said to yield an oil used in medicine and for soap making." 



41946. Lonicera orientalis longifolia Dipp. Caprifoliacese. 

 (Lonicera Kesselringi Hegel.) Honeysuckle. 



From Kew, England. Presented by Sir David Prain, director, Royal Botanic 

 Gardens. Received February 24, 1916. 



" Our experience with Lonicera seeds is that, like Berberis seeds and various 

 others, they often lie in the soil for a year or more before they germinate. 

 What we do is to plunge the pots outside, exposed to the frost, after six to 

 nine months in a propagating house." {Prain.) 



" It has oblong or oval-lanceolate leaves 1% to 2J inches long, rarely more 

 than three-fourths inch wide. Flowers pink, smaller than in orientalis, the 

 corolla tube only slightly swollen ; stalk one-third inch long. Introduced from 

 Kamchatka in 1888." (Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 

 vol. 2, p. 51.) 



See S. P. I. No. 40184 for previous introduction. 



41947. Hesperethttsa crenulata (Roxb.) Eoemer. Rutacese. 

 (Limonia acidissima L.) 



From Sibpur, near Calcutta, India. Presented by the curator, Royal Bo- 

 tanic Gardens. Received February 8, 1916. 

 See S. P. I. Nos. 26496 and 29170 for previous introductions and description 

 as Limonia acidissima L. 



