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41508. MUSA sp. Banana. From Alfred Bircher, Matania el
Saff, Egypt. Plants grown from seeds.  Said to have been produced
by the Orinoco banana, which is ordinarily seedless in America.
Possibly cross-pollinated.  Of unusual interest to breeders interested
in the banana.

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.

41057. MYRCIARIA FLORIBUNDA. Guava berry tree
From Longfield Smith, St. Croix, Danish West Indies. Myrtaceous
tree, 30 to 40 feet in height, with papery leaves ; small, white flowers;
and small, edible, black, reddish, or yellow fruits, which have a
pleasantly acid, aromatic flesh.  They are said to make a delicious
preserve.  Native of the West Indies, Guiana, and Brazil.

41256. MYRICA RUBRA. Yang mae. From F. N. Meyer,
Hangchow, Chekiang, China.  Seedlings of a rare and interesting
evergreen Chinese fruit tree, of which many inarched varieties are
grown in Chekiang.  Fruits of grafted varieties are very showy, the
size of small crab apples, dark purplish in color, and have a pleasant,
vinous flavor of their own.  Trees difficult to transplant.

NEPHELIUM LAPPACEUM. Rambutan. A spreading tree.
One of the most attractive and delicious fruits of Malaysia.  Related
to the litchi, but having a more highly perfumed flavor.  The thick-
skinned fruits, about the size of a small hen's egg, are a beautiful
wine-red color and are covered with slender, soft spines. The white
pulp surrounding the large seed is juicy and delicately perfumed.

12569. OLEA EUROPEA. Baronni olive. From Susa, Tunis,
Africa, through T. H. Kearney. The largest fruited olive of the
Tunisian region.  Culture confined exclusively to Sahel and Kalaa
Srira.  One of the best of the green table olives. (PI. XII.)

12684. OLEA EUROPEA. Bidh el Hamman olive. From
T. H. Kearney, Zaouia du Mornag, near Tunis, North Africa. Second
largest olive of the Tunisian region and said to be one of the best
of the table olives.

12685. OLEA EUROPEA. Saiali Magloub olive. From
T. H. Kearney, Zaouia du Mornag, Tunis, North Africa. Tree with
very abundant foliage.  Fruit medium sized but of excellent quality
as a table olive.

58656°— 17-4
        