Inventory 72, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate 



A Young Specimen of the Mu-yu Shu, 

 Montana (Lour.) Wilson; S. P. 



or Mu-oil Tree. (Aleurites 

 , Nos. 55647 TO 55650.) 



Mu oil, yielded by the seeds of Aleurites montana, is practically identical in character with tung 

 oil, obtained from A . for dii Hemsl. It is a valuable drying oil, used in the varnish, paint, 

 and many other industries. The mu-oil tree is less resistant to frost than the tung-oil tree, 

 and the specimen here shown, grown at the Live Oak Plantation, Tallahassee, Fla., was 

 killed by the freeze of February, 1917. The leaves of young trees of this species are much 

 more deeply lobed than those of the tung-oil tree (Photographed by R. A. Young, Talla- 

 hassee, Fla., August 11, 1916; P19856FS.) 



