CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introductory statement 5 



Inventory 9 



Botanical notes and publication of new names 53 



Index of common and scientific names 55 



ILLUSTMTIONS. 



Page. 



Plate I. Male flowers of the Tung-shu, or Chinese wood-oil tree {Aleurites 



fordii) 18 



II. Mango of the Di\'ine variety in fruit at the United States Plant In- 

 troduction Field Station, Miami, Fla 18 



III. The duku, or doekoe (Lansiumdomesticum J 3ick), of the Dutch East 



Indies 28 



IV. The langsat {Lansium domesticum Jack) 28 



V. Prunus mira, the new species of peach recently discovered near 



Tachienlu, Szechwan, China, by Mr. E. H. Wilson, of the Arnold 



Arboretum 36 



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