
          MYRCIARIA CAULIFLORA.
Jaboticaba. From Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Collected by Dorsett, Shamel
and Popenoe. Remarkable fruit tree
40 feet high. Popular among Brazilians. 
Maroon-purple, thick-skinned
fruits resembling grapes with delicious,
vinous, white pulp, borne on
trunk, branches and twigs in such
numbers as at times almost to conceal
them. May stand light frosts.

30961. NAUCLEA ORIENTALIS. 
Received from Mr. G. Regnard,
Port Louis, Mauritius. A large, yellow
flowered, rubiaceous tree related to
the cinchona, found from the Malay
Peninsula to northern Australia.
Yields a hard, black, heavy timber
which is capable of a very high polish
and is extensively used in the manufacture 
of furniture.

34080. NEPHROSPERMA
VANHOUTTEANA. From P. Rivaly 
Dupont, Seychelles Islands. A
palm, often growing 35 feet high,
found in open places and along streams
in the Seychelles Islands.
        