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35449. FICUS ULMIFOLIA. Fig. From Mr. C. F. Baker,
Los Banos, P. I. Very good edible Philippine fig, especially adapted
for moist, hot regions. Fruits sweet and palatable, axillary, nearly
all solitary with short stems, globose, hairy, or hispid in young state,
eye half open and scaly.

29359. FICUS UTILIS. M'pamah, from Lourenco Marques,
Portuguese East Africa, through O. W. Barrett. Medium-sized tree
of the open bush, preferring sandy land. If cut near the ground it
produces clean young coppice branches of rapid growth ; the bark is
removed from these and when beaten forms the native cloth in the
M'Chopes district. This cloth is softer than the South Sea "tapa."
Injured but not seriously by 26° F.

42721. FRAGARIA VESCA. Strawberry. From Mr. Abelardo
Pachano, Ambato, Ecuador. Native Andean plant called
fresa, closely related to the species usually found on the market,
known as frutilla, F. chiloensis. The fruit is much smaller and
rather acid in taste, but the plant is highly ornamental and well
adapted for garden borders and as a ground cover in dry locations.

42838. FRAXINUS OXYCARPA. Ash. From Kief, Russia.
Handsome ornamental tree, 60 to 70 feet in height. It is very similar
to the narrow-leaved ash of southern Europe, F. angustifolia, but
differs in having the leaflets somewhat downy beneath, and it is of a
more easterly range, reaching to Persia, the Caucasus, and Asia
Minor.

44132. FRAXINUS sp. Imoden ash. From Mr. George MacCartney,
Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. A tall-growing timber tree,
which is able to withstand considerable drought and alkali. Of
probable value as a shade and timber tree in those sections of the
United States where the summers are hot and dry and the winters
are not too cold.

44134. FRAXINUS sp. Ash. From Mr. George MacCartney,
Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. Ornamental shade tree from the hot,
dry, and mild-wintered country about Kashgar. Possesses a fairly
high degree of resistance to drought and alkali. Should be tried in
the mild-wintered dry sections of the United States.

42367. FUNTUMIA ELASTICA. From Mr. Eugene Jaeglé,
Ivoloina, near Tamatave, Madagascar. A tall apocynaceous rubber
tree, up to 100 feet in height, with cylindrical trunk; pale spotted
bark; nearly oblong wavy margined leaves; and dense, many-
flowered clusters of white or yellowish flowers. This tree yields the
Lagos caoutchouc. Native of western Africa.
        