﻿104 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



43956. Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle. Kutacese. Wood-apple. 



(F. elephantum Correa.) 



From Peradeniya, Ceylon. Seeds presented by Mr. T. H. Parsons, curator, 



Royal Botanic Gardens. Received December 18, 1916. 



A spiny, deciduous tree, native of India and Indo-China, with compound leaves 



and nearly globular fruits rilled with pinkish, edible pulp, which is used for 



making jelly. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 



3, p. 1219.) 



See also S. P. I. No. 42268 for further information. 



43957. Eucalyptus margixata J. E. Smith. Myrtaceae. 



From Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Seeds presented by Dr. J. H. 

 Maiden, director, Botanic Gardens. Received December 21, 1916. 

 An Australian tree, becoming tall under favorable circumstances, with lance- 

 shaped leaves 3 to 6 inches long, and thick, hard, smooth, nearly globular fruits. 

 A valuable hardwood tree in Australia, but not yet a success in America. The 

 timber is easily worked, takes a fine polish, is not attacked by teredo, is almost 

 incombustible, and is used in England for street paving and in Australia for 

 piles, telegraph poles, shingles, etc. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia 

 of Horticulture, vol. 2, p. 1159.) 



43958. Saccharum ofttcixarum L. Poacese. Sugar cane. 



From Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. Cuttings presented by Mr. J. T. Craw- 

 ley, director, Agricultural Experiment Station. Received December 20, 

 1916. 

 " Cristalina. Noel Deerr in his 'Cane Sugar,' p. 26, says that the Crist alina 

 is a Batavian cane and is the lighter of the two purple Batavia canes. It is 

 known in Hawaii as Rose Bamboo, in the British West Indies at White Trans- 

 parent, in Cuba as Cristalina, and in Louisiana as Home Purple. It is of no 

 distinctive color, sometimes being a pale or ash color and at other times wine 

 colored. Its color depends upon its age and environments ; the younger the cane 

 the more color it contains, and the younger parts of the cane are more colored 

 than the older parts. It is a comparatively thin cane with long joints and has 

 a longitudinal channel running from the eye to the next joint above. It is prone 

 to fall down from the effects of high winds, is comparatively soft, and when 

 mature furnishes a juice of high sucrose and purity. It is a comparatively hardy 

 cane and will give remunerative crops on soil and under conditions where many 

 other canes would fail. While not immune to the attacks of insects and diseases, 

 it is among the canes which most successfully resist them." (Craivley.) 



43959 to 43963. 



From Canton, China. Obtained by Mr. E. D. Merrill, botanist, Manila 

 Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands. Received December 26, 

 1916. 



43959 and 43960. Canaetum spp. Balsameacese. 



The foUowing observations relate exclusively to the fruit vended 

 everywhere in the south of Kwangtung Province, of which there are two 

 kinds: The U-lam, or ''black olive," and the Pak-lam, or "white olive," 

 produced, respectively, by Canarium pimela and C. album. 



