
          34289. GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM. 
Cotton. From the Agricultural 
College, Coimbatore, India,
through Prof. C. V. Piper. This cotton
is said to have been introduced from
Cambodia into South India, where it
has yielded far more heavily than any
other cotton. It is of the American
Upland type.

26319. GREIGIA SPHACELATA. 
"Chupon." From Mr. Jose D.
Husbands, Limavida, Chile. A 
bromelia-like stemless plant with 
densely clustered sword-shaped leaves 
resembling those of the pineapple. The
flowers are purplish and the fruit is
fragrant and wedge-shaped, with
pleasantly flavored sweet juice. It
grows in a comparatively moist 
climate.

36705. GREVILLEA BANKSII
From Messrs. Dorsett, Shamel and
Popenoe, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Small
broad-topped evergreen tree, somewhat 
similar to the Silk-oak, G. robusta,
12 to 20 feet high, with rough ashy
brown bark, deeply pinnatifid leaves
6 to 8 inches long and 5 to 6 inches
wide, dull green above, silvery beneath
and numerous racemes, 3 to 5 inches
long, of beautiful rose-red flowers.
Native of Australia.
        