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41955 to 41959— Continued. 



orange-yellow, 2 to 4 cm. in diameter ; skin smooth, thin, brittle, separable 

 from the flesh ; flesh orange colored, juicy, acid ; aroma distinct ; juice 

 sacs rather large, short, and contained in six to eight locules ; seeds com- 

 paratively large, smooth, plump, sometimes beaked. Philippines, probably 

 extending to the Sunda Isles. With the cabuyao the calamondin shares 

 the distinction of being indigenous to the Philippines. It is still rare in 

 foreign countries. In Hawaii it is known as the Chinese orange. The 

 calamondin makes an exceedingly attractive ornamental tree, and the 

 fruit makes a delicious marmalade and a good cooling drink. As far as 

 observed the species occurs in few forms, and the trees are almost in- 

 variably exceedingly prolific and almost everbearing." (P. J. Wester, 

 Citriculture in the Philippines, Philippine Bureau of Agriculture, Bul- 

 letin No. 27, p. 15.) 

 41959. Citrus webberii Montana Wester. Rutacese. Cabugao. 



A citrus fruit closely allied to the mandarin (Citrus nobilis deliciosa) 

 and the alsem (Citrus webberii). 



See S. P. I. No. 41388 for previous introduction and description. 



41960. Bunchosia sp. Malpighiacese. 



From El Coyolar, Costa Rica. Plants presented by Mr. Carlos Werckle. 

 Numbered January 30, 1916. 

 " The pulp is exactly like the Yemon variety of the TcaJci persimmon in con- 

 sistency and taste, but vermilion carmine in color." (Werckle'.) 



41961 and 41962. 



From Kew, England. Plants presented by Sir David Prain, director, Royal 

 Botanic Gardens. Received February 25, 1916. 



41961. X Aesculus plantierensis Andre. iEsculacese. 



" A hybrid raised in the nursery of Messrs. Simon-Louis Freres, at 

 Plantieres, near Metz, its parents no doubt A. hippocastanum and A. 

 carnea, The seeds came from the former, so that it is (if the generally 

 accepted parentage of A. carnea be correct) three-fourths common horse- 

 chestnut and one part red buckeye (A. pavia). It shows the character 

 of both its parents in the leaf, the leaflets being stalkless, as in A. hip- 

 pocastanum, yet showing the strongly ridged and uneven surface of A. 

 carnea. In shape and size the panicle is like that of A. hippocastanum, 

 but the whole flower is suffused with a charming shade of soft pink, 

 which it inherited from the other parent. In habit and general appear- 

 ance it is intermediate. It has flowered at Kew for several years past, 

 and I consider it a very beautiful and desirable acquisition. It has de- 

 veloped no fruit at Kew, and I understand from Mr. Jouin, of Plantieres, 

 that it does not bear seed in the nursery. For public places this is an 

 advantage." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 

 vol. 1, p. 113.) 



41962. X Escallonia langleyensis Veitch. Escalloniacese. 



"An elegant evergreen or, in hard winters, semiever green shrub be- 

 coming eventually 8 feet or more high and producing long, slender, 

 arching shoots in one season. Flowers of a charmingly bright rosy 

 carmine, one-half inch across, produced during June and July (a few 

 later) in short racemes of about half a dozen blossoms terminating short 



