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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOBTED 



33800 to 33911— Continued. 



33850. Berberis chilexsis Gill. Barberry. 

 No. 1330.) 'Calafate: A new strain having blue fruit that is extra-sweet." 



33851. BoQi iLA TRiFOLiATA (DC.") Decaisne. 

 ''(No. 1331.) 'PUpil voqui.' A rare variety.'^ 

 See Xo. 26309 for description. 



33852. Embothrium coccixeum Foret. Notra. 

 "(No. 1291.) 'Tiaca.^ 'Quiaca.' A beautiful bush with white flowers; 



famous for its flexibility." 



33853. Caldcluvia paniculata (Cav.) Don. 



"(No. 1336.) Tiaca.' A flexible wood very much like hickor\'; different 

 from No. 1291 (S. P. I. No. 33852)." 



33854. Hei.exium glaucum (Cav.) Stiintz. 



(^Cephalophora glauca Cavanilles. Icones, vol. 6. p. 80, pi. 599, 1801.) 



Seeds of this asteraceous plant from Chile were received under the name 

 Cephalophora glauca Cav. Since Cephalophora is now considered merely a j 

 section of the genus Helenium. it is necessary to use the name Helenium glaucum, \ 

 which seems never to have been published. 



"(No. 914.) 'PoquiJ."' 



"Used medicinally and for dyeing." (TT. E. Safford.) 



33855. CoLLETiA spixosissiMA J. F. Gmelin. 

 yCoUetia spiyiosa Lam.) 



"(No. 1067.) 'Juncohlunco.' From near the River Itata. A valuable plant 

 for fences and for honey, of which it makes a most delicious kind of its own. 

 unequaled. It also has the advantage of growing dry in loose and drifting 

 sands that will not maintain any other plant. It might make a desert produc- 

 tive." 



33856. CoLLETiA spixosissEMA J. F. Gmelin. 

 [^CoUetia spinosa Lam.) 



"(No. 1068.) 'Junco bianco.' From the Autuco." 

 See No. 33855 for description. 

 33857 to 33859. Sophora macrocarpa Smith. 



33857. "(No. 1016.) 'Mayu.' From the Volcano Antuco." 



33858. "(No. 1017). 'Mayu.' From near the Volcano Antuco." 



33859. "(No. 916.) 'Mayu.' Blooms in the spring, the flowers hancr- 

 ing like earrings in drooping bunches." 



33860. (Undetermined.' 



•iNo. 1282.) Mayu del Monte.' A most beautiful flowering bush: equal 

 to any of its class or character in cultivation. Flowers face upright in big 

 clusters like a giant hydrangea. Blooms in the fall." 

 33861 to 33863. Sophora tetraptera J. Miller. 



33861. "(No. 1019.) -Pelu.' From the cordilleras of the Volcano 

 Antuco." 



33862. "(No. 1020.) 'Pelu.' Another variety that grows farther 

 north on the seacoast." 



33863. "(No. 838.) 'Pelu:'-'- 



