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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



34519. Amygdalus persica L. Peach. 



{Prunus persica Stokes.) 

 From Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Presented by J^Irs. St. George Lough, 

 at the request of Mrs. F. T. F. Du Mont. Received November 11, 1912. 

 See S. P. I. 34131 for description. 

 Scions. 



34520. CoLOCASiA sp. 



From Yencheng, Kiangsu, China. Presented by Rev. Hugh W. ^^^lite. Received 

 November 11, 1912. 



"A giant variety, here used as food. It is quite a good substitute for potatoes when 

 prepared in an appetizing way. I presume the taro of the Pacific Ocean is similar, 

 but have never seen it. Other parts of China mise it, but nowhere does it grow to 

 such size as here . " ( White. ) 



"The corm received weighed about 1 pound, and a part of it when baked was white, 

 of good flavor, and fine, mealy texture." {R. A. Young.) 



34521. Malls sp. Apple. 



From Siberia. Presented by Mr. Svend Lange, Barnaul. Received Novem- 

 ber 6, 1912. 



"Concerning these seeds, the farmer Sokoloff told me that most of the apple seeds 

 after they were sown unless the trees were grafted rarely gave the same size fruits." 

 (Lange.) 



34522. UvARiA GRAXDLFLOEA (Lech.) Roxburgh. 



( U. purpurea Blume.) 

 From the Philippine Islands. Presented by J^Ir. O. W. Barrett, Bureau of Agri- 

 culture, Manila. Received November 11, 1912. 

 •'Banauac. — A shrubby climber related to the cherimoya, with bright-red, kidney- 

 shaped fruits, about twice the size of a grape, in bunches of some 15 to 20, having 

 edible subacid flesh containing numerous seeds. The plant is perhaps of little value 

 for its fruit, but the fruiting plant is a good ornamental subject." (Barrett.) 



Distribution. — The Province of Pegu, in Bm*ma, and eastward through the Malay 

 Archipelago to the Philippines. 



34523 to 34601. 



From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Collection of Chinese plants from the Arnold Arbo- 

 retum. Received November 11, 1912. 

 "Part of the collections made for the Arboretum by Mr. E. H. Wilson and coming 

 for the most part from western China. IVIr. Wilson spent nearly eight years exploring 

 the plant resources of this rich collecting field." (Fairchild.) 



Plants of the following; quoted noces by Mr. Wilson, except as otherwise stated: 

 34523. Tetracentron sixense Oliver. 



"A tree 20 to 50 feet high, first discovered by Dr. Augustine Henry in Hupeh, 

 central China, and later introduced into cultivation by Mr. E. H. Wilson. It 

 belongs to a recently described genus of Magnoliaceae, has serrate alternate 

 ovate-elliptic leaves and minute flowers, on drooping spikes 4 to 6 inches in 

 length, of singular botanical interest, but of little value from a horticultural 

 point of view." (Veitch, Hortus Veitchii.) 



