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to 34038, a collection from Senor Carlos Thays, of the Botanic Garden 

 of Buenos Aires, of seeds of ornamental trees and shrubs from Brazil 

 and Argentina, some of which should be of great interest to southern 

 park superintendents, for example, No. 33965, the curious canban- 

 ambi, whose fruits have an odor which causes one to sneeze; No. 

 33970, the chanar, a favorite fruit of the Argentinos; No. 33997, a 

 remarkable bulb of the iris family, from a dozen bulbs of which over a 

 thousand apricot-yellow blooms were produced. From other corre- 

 spondents we find No. 34045, a remarkable yellow-fruited Rubus 

 which Dr. Proschowsky reports has climbed nearly to the top of his 

 olive trees at Nice and bears an abundance of good fruit; Nos. 34046 

 to 34049, four species of drought-resistant fodder grasses from New 

 South Wales; No. 34050, seeds of the delicious ilama from Tehuan- 

 tepec, a fruit resembling the cherimoya, but larger and said to be of 

 better flavor; No. 34051, a n?w species of bombax from the Philip- 

 pines, which will probably grow in southern Florida and is of value in 

 furnishing what appears to be quite as good a fiber as the best Java 

 kapok; Nos. 34056 to 34062, a collection of muskmelon seeds from 

 the Dominican Republic which will interest growers in subtropical 

 regions; No. 34063, the Karagatch elm of the Trans-caspian territory, 

 a more rapid grower and producing harder and better wood than the 

 American elm, which has proved hardy at Fallon, Nev., and is one 

 of the most beautiful avenue trees known; No. 34071, Dammara alba, 

 the remarkable broad-leaved conifer of Java; No. 34078, Talauma 

 mutahilis, from the island of Java, a large yellow-flowered tree related 

 to the magnolia, introduced for breeding experiments; and No. 34092, 

 from Senegal, West Africa, presented by the director of the Colonial 

 Garden at Nogent sur Marne, France, a perennial rice which produces 

 rhizomes and wdll probably grow in saline soils, and smce the natives 

 consider it so much better than their imported rices that they will 

 exchange only one calabash of it for three of the imported kind 

 it is certainly worthy of special consideration. 



As heretofore, the manuscript for this inventory has been prepared 

 by ^liss Mary A. Austin, the botanical determinations have been 

 made and the notes on geographic distribution compiled by Mr. H. C. 

 Skeels, and the notes on nomenclature have been prepared under the 

 supervision of the Committee on Scientific Orthography of this 

 Bureau by Mr. S. C. Stuntz, who has also had general supervision of 

 this inventory, as of all the publications of the Office of Foreign Seed 

 and Plant Introduction. 



David Fairchild, 

 Agricultural Explorer in CTiarge. 

 Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 



Washington, D. C, February 8, 1913. 



