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33913 to 34038— Continued. 



33934. Campomanesia sp. 



Seeds of this species were received under the name Campomanesia sellowiana, 

 but so far the place of publication of this species has not been found. 



33935. Cassia bicapsularis L. 



Distribution. — A shrub or small tree, with light, soft wood and medicinal bark, 

 found from San Luis Potosi in Mexico southward through Central and South 

 America to southern Brazil and Chile. 



33936. Cassia corymbosa Lamarck. 



Distribution. — The vicinity of Buenos Aires in Argentina. 



33937. Cassia occidextalis L. 

 See No. 3059 for description. 



33938. Celtis tala Gill. 



Distribution. — A tall, thorny shrub or small tree, suitable for hedges and street 

 planting, found in the lower part of the valley of the La Plata in Argentina and 

 Uruguay . 



83939. Cerbera thevetia L. 

 {Thevetia nereifolia Juss.) 

 See No. 33563 for previous introduction. 



33940. Chamissomneia luzulaefolia (Less.) Kuntze. 

 (Schlechtendalia luzulaefolia Less.) 



Distribution. — A handsome erect perennial composite found in central Brazil 

 and in the vicinity of Montevideo in Uruguay. 



33941. Chorisia insignis H. B. K. Samohti. 

 Distribution. — A tree with a swollen trunk found along the banks of the 



Amazon in Brazil. It has large white, yellowish, or reddish, lily-shaped 

 flowers, and like other plants of the Bombacaceae, abundant fiber on the seeds. 



33942. Chorisia speciosa St. Hil. Arvore de paina. 

 Distribution. — ^A tree whose seeds have only a short fiber; found in the prov- 

 inces of Minaa Geraes and Sao Paulo in southern Brazil. 



33943. Citharexylum barbinerve Cham. 



Distribution. — ^A low tree, belonging to the verbena family, found in the 

 valley of the La Plata in Brazil. 



33944. Cocos campestris Martins. Palm. 

 Distribution. — An edible-fruited palm found in the provinces of Minas 



Geraes and Sao Paulo in Brazil. 



33945. CoLLiGUAjA integerrima Gillies and Hooker. 



Distribution. — A low, euphorbiaceous shrub foimd in the valleys of the Andes 

 in the province of Mendoza in Argentina and in Chile. 



33946. CoMBRETUM fruticosum (Loefling) Stuntz. 

 {Gaura fruticosa Loefling, Iter Hispanicum, p. 248, 1758.) 

 {Combretum laxum Loefling, Reise, p. 320, 1766.) 



(C. micropetalum DC, Prodromus, vol. 3, p. 19, 1828.) 

 (C loejiingii Eichler, in Martins, Flora Brasiliensis, vol. 14, pt. 2, p. 110, 

 1867.) 



Seeds of this South American shrub were received under the name Com- 

 bretum micropetalum DC. Eichler, however, in 1867 in his revision of the Bra- 

 zilian species of the genus Combretum gives the plant the name C. loejiingii, 

 based on the C. laxum of the 1766 edition of Loefling's travels, not of Jacquin 



