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43413 to 43421— Continued. 



43419. Bntada polystachya (L.) DC. Mimosaceae. 



"(No. 25.) Bejuco de garza." A woody vine, entirely glabrous, with 

 bipinnate leaves and terminal panicles of white almost sessile flowers. 

 Most of these flowers, which are about a millimeter long, fall immedi- 

 ately after opening, only a very few forming fruit. The smooth, slightly 

 curved pod reaches 9 or 10 inches in length. Seeds oval, compressed, 

 with calloused margins. (Adapted from DeCandolle, Memoires sur la 

 Famille des Legumineuses, pp. !#1 and 434~436.) 



43420. Pithecolobium LiGUSTRiNUM Klotzsch. Miniosacese. 



"(No. 5.) Payande." A stout tree found in the hot regions of Co- 

 lombia, called by the natives payande in Magdalena and gallinero in 

 Socorro. (Adapted from Cortes, Flor de Colombia, p. 144-) 



This plant is without spines or thorns, and the leaves are composed of 

 only one pair of leaflets, with oblong-lanceolate pinnse. The flowers occur 

 in spikes, are slender and glabrous, and the pods are flattened. (Adapted 

 from Bentliam, London Journal of Botany, vol. 3, p. 213.) 



43421. Stylogyne eamifloea (Oerst.) Mez. Myrsinaceae. 

 (Ardisia ramiflora Oerst.) 



"(No. 46.) May be valuable possibly as a dye plant." 

 A woody plant, with dark, terete, smooth branches and papery, short- 

 petioled. entire, oblong-lanceolate acute leaves. The sessile axillary 

 panicles of 5 to 10 flowers are in umbellike clusters at the end of the 

 branches. The fruits, about the size of those of the genus Piper, are 

 subglobose drupes. In habit this species is close to Stylogyne cauliflora 

 and S. longifolia, differing in the inflorescence. (Adapted from Oersted, 

 in Videnskabelige Meddelelser Naturhistoriske Forening Kjobenhavn, p. 

 132.) 



43422. Chayota edulis Jacq. Cucurbitacese. Chayote. 

 (SecJiium edule Swartz.) 



From Guatemala, Guatemala. Collected by Mr. Wilson Popenoe, Agri- 

 cultural Explorer for the Department of Agriculture. Received October 

 14, 1916.. 

 "(No. 26a.) Large white perulero. Undoubtedly one of the very best varieties 

 of chayote or giiisquil grown in Guatemala. Its attractive appearance, smooth 

 surface, freedom from spines and deep sutures, and its excellent quality make 

 it seem worthy of a careful trial in the southern United States. This variety 

 belongs to the class known as perulero, or Peruvian chayote, a group which 

 includes a good many small to medium sized smooth varieties, as distinguished 

 from the gilisquiles proper, larger fruits, usually with sutures on the surface 

 and often spiny. This large white perulero is considered of superior quality, 

 the flavor being very delicate. Owing to the absence of spines and sutures 

 it is very easily prepared for the table." (Popenoe.) 



43423. Mida acuminata (E. Br.) Kuntze. Santalacea3. 

 (Fusanus acuminatus R. Br.) Quandong. 



From Sydney, Australia. Seeds presented by Mr. Fred Turner, of the 

 Linnean Society, through the American consul general. Received October 

 9, 1916. 



