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addition, swallowed after having been chewed or taken as a powder, the 

 kola nut is a valued antidysenteric and is passed among the negroes as a 

 powerful aphrodisiac ; native names Gourou, Ngourou, and Cafe du 

 Soudan. (Adapted from De Lanessan, Les Plantes Utiles des Colonies 

 Francaises, pp. 343, 805.) 



42359. Bichea acuminata (Beauv.) W. F. Wight. Sterculiacese. 

 (Cola acuminata Schott and Endl.) Kola nut. 



See S. P. I. No. 42358 for description. 



42360. Canangium odoeattjm (Lam.) Baill. Annonacese. Hang-Hang-. 



(Cananga odorata Hook. f. and Thorns.) 

 " This is a handsome tree, symmetrical and stately, reaching a height 

 of 50 feet or more. It has a smooth, hard, grayish bark, resembling that 

 of the beech. It flowers in April and May or perhaps even earlier. The 

 long, straplike, yellowish petals give out a rich, spicy fragrance, some- 

 what resembling that of cinnamon and very pronounced just after a rain." 

 (J. E. Conner.) 

 See also S. P. I. No. 38652 for previous introduction. 



42361. Carica papaya L. Papayacea?. Papaya. 

 See S. P. I. No. 42055 for description. 



42362. Cassia siamea Lam. CsesalpiniaceaB. 



A valuable medium-sized tree, having pinnately compound leaves and 

 oblong medium-sized leaflets. It is decidedly ornamental on account of 

 its erect terminal panicles of yellow flowers and elongated flat pods. It 

 is commonly cultivated in the Philippines and has done remarkably well 

 in Cuba. The wood is considered of value for house pillars and in the 

 making of furniture. Native name, Ong-canh-eh Kmer. (Adapted from 

 Be Lanessan, Les Plantes Utiles des Colonies Francaises, p. 287, and from 

 the Catalogue of the Manila City Nursery.) 



42363. Castilla elastica Cerv. Moracese. Rubber tree. 

 A lofty, deciduous, native American forest tree of the breadfruit family, 



growing to a height of 20 meters and over, the young twigs being densely 

 covered with yellowish or grayish hair. Mature leaves rather large, dark 

 green above, paler and velvety beneath. Rubber is obtained in the usual 

 way by tapping the tree and evaporating the moisture from the latex. 

 (See Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium, vol. 13, part 7, 

 1910, p. 277.) 



42364. Citeus hystkix DC. Rutacese. Papeda. 

 A large, thorny tree, 6 to 12 meters high, having broadly winged 



leaves 16 to 24 cm. long. Fruits variable, from oblate to pyriform, turbi- 

 nate or oblong, smooth to more or less corrugate, greenish lemon yellow ; 

 rind medium thick, flesh greenish, juicy, sharply acid, aromatic, contained 

 in 12 to 15 loeules ; seeds, usually many, flat, reticulate. Found in the 

 Malay Archipelago, including the Philippines, to India. (Adapted from 

 Wester, Citriculture in the Philippines, Bulletin 27, 1913.) 



42365. Linoma alba (Bory) O. F. Cook. Phcenicacese. Palm. 

 A slender, spineless, arecalike palm found in tropical Asia, where it 



grows to a height of 30 feet or more and a diameter of 8 or 9 inches, 

 dilated at the base. The leaves are 8 to 12 feet long. Branches of the 

 spadix 6 to 18 inches long, erect or slightly refiexed, zigzag when young. 



