﻿14 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



43039 to 43048— Continued. 



43039. Late yellow. 43044. Large red. 



43040. AluboTchara small. 43045. Aluclia red. 



43041. Alubokhara large. 43046. Large yellow. 



43042. Alucha purple. 43047. Dwarf early yellow. 



43043. Early large red. 43048. Ladakh. 



43049. Erythrina poeppigiana (Walp.) O. F. Cook. Fabaceae. 



(E. mieropteryx Poepp.) Bucare. 



From Mayaguez, Porto Rico. Presenter] by Mr. D. W. May, agronomist, 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. Received July 3, 1916. 

 A leguminous tree commonly used for cacao shade in the West Indies. It 

 attains 60 feet in height, but its wood is said to be so soft and water-logged as 

 to be of no use even for fuel and so brittle that it will not withstand windstorms. 

 It is being replaced in the cacao plantations because of this brittleness. because 

 the leaves are off the tree from January to May, when they are most essential, 

 and because the roots are surface feeders and interfere with cultivation. 

 (Adapted from Cook, Shade in Coffee Culture, Bui. 25, Division of Botany, 

 1901.) 



43050 to 43060. 



From El Banco, Bolivar, Colombia. Collected by Mr. H. M. Curran. Num- 

 bered August 1, 1916. Quoted notes by Mr. Curran except as otherwise 

 indicated. 



43050. Ceeeus sp. Cactaeeae. Cactus. 

 Cuttings of an " ornamental white-flowered cactus, growing in immense 



masses on the limbs of forest trees." 



43051. Ceintjm sp. Amaryllidacese. 



Bulbs of " a low, ornamental forest plant ; flowers wnite, fragrant. 

 Highly prized by the natives of Colombia." 



43052. Amoephophallus sp. Araceae. 



Corms of an " ornamental medicinal plant, used as a remedy against 

 snake bite." 



43053. Zephyeanthes sp. Amaryllidacese. 



" Bulbs of a small white Amaryllis. Cultivated in the gardens of the 

 natives along the Magdalena River." 



43054. Aeistolochia sp. Aristolochiaceaa. 



" Seeds of a fine Aristolochia, ornamental, growing wild in the low 

 lands of the Magdalena River." 



43055. Scheelea excelsa Karst. Phoenicaceae. Palm. 

 "Trunk 40 to 50 feet high, 2 to 3 feet in diameter; wood reddish. 



Leaves 15 to 24 feet long, pinnate. Inflorescence in the axils of the 

 leaves, long pedunculate ; peduncle 4 to 5 feet long ; spathe solitary, fusi- 

 form ; spadix simply and sparsely branched, 3 feet long, branches 4 to 6 

 inches long. Fruit drupaceous, edible, ovoid apiculate, about the size of 

 a duck's egg ; pericarp mucilaginous, oily, intermixed with fibers ; epicarp 

 leathery, yellow ; seed bony, one to three celled. Grows in hot valleys of 

 the Magdalena and Canea up to an altitude of about 3,000 feet." (C. B. 

 Doyle.) 



