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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



43567 to 43577— Continued. 



43567 to 43572. Amygdali's peesica L. 



(Prunus persica Stokes.) 



43567. Melocoton Bandera Expand a. 



43568. Tardio Encarnado. 



43569. Bresquillo Duraznos. 



43570. Tardio Amarillo. 



43571. Melocoton Murciano. 



43572. Melocoton de Sagunto. 

 43573. Amygdaltjs peesica nectabena Ait. 



Abridor de Alginet. 

 43574 to 43577. Amygdaltjs peesica L. 



(Prunus persica Stokes.) 



43574. Roquete San Jaime. 43576. 



43575. Pavia de Picasent. 43577. 



Peach. 



Nectarine. 



Peach. 



Temprano Pequeno. 

 Pavia Eina Encarnada. 



43578. Cyperus esculextus L. Cyperacea?. Chufa. 



From Valencia, Spain. Tubers presented by Mr. R. L. Sprague, American 

 consul, Gibraltar, at the request of Mr. George Eustis, Newport, R. I. 

 Received November 16. 1916. 

 ; ' With regard to the cultivation of chufas, there appears to be little to say. 

 Similarly to peanuts, they require a light sandy soil, well worked, and peri- 

 odical irrigation. In preparing for planting, the soil is well pulverized and 

 mixed with sea sand and organic manure, supplemented occasionally with 

 superphosphates and a little ammonium sulphate. The surface is leveled and 

 irrigation ditches made at a distance of 2 or 3 palms (17 to 24 iuches) apart. 

 The spaces between, or rows, are flattened in spots at intervals of 2 or 1 3 

 palms, the seed being placed three or four to each hill on the surface and 

 these hills lightly covered with loose earth. The seed is not buried, and the 

 depth of the covering should not exceed 2 inches. The only attention required 

 is occasional weeding and irrigation, as the tuber requires plenty of moisture." 

 ( Sprague. ) 



43579. Cyrtostachys lakka Beccari. Phoenicacea\ 



Palm. 



F-oin Singapore, Straits Settlements. Presented by Mr. I. H. Burkhill, 

 director, Botanical Gardens. Received November 6, 1916. 



A stately, elegant palm, producing suckers. The slender spineless stem is 

 covered with a cluster of boldly arched leaves, 3i to 4i feet in length. The 

 flowers are monoecious, and the dry fruits are elongate, egg shaped, and small, 

 about 10 mm. (five-twelfths of an inch) long and half as wide. The ovate seeds 

 are about one-sixteenth of an inch long. This species differs from Cyrtostachys 

 renda in the more elongated and smaller fruits and in the oval seeds. 

 (Adapted from Beccari, Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, vol. 2, 

 p. 141, and from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 2. p. 947.) 



43580. Tricondyltjs myricoides (Gaertn. f.) Kuntze. Proteacese. 

 (Lomatia longifolia R. Br.) 



From Clarence, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Presented by Mr. 



Harry B. Shaw, Federal Inspector, port of New York, through Dr. G. R. 



Lyman, of the Department of Agriculture. Received November 9, 1916. 



A shrub 8 to 10 feet high, with very narrow lance-shaped leaves and terminal 



or axillar T racemes of cream-colored flowers. The fruit is an oval-oblong 



