OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1912. 



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34672 to 34690— Continued. 



34680. ''Saiway" on A. davidiana (S. P. I. No. 26604). 



34681. "Salway" on A. davidiana (S. P. I. No. 27110). 



34682. "Crawford" on A. davidiana (S. P. I. No. 27116). 



34683. "Crawford" on common peach (P. I. G. No. 8562). 



34684 to 34688. Amygdalus persica nectarina Ait. Nectarine. 



34684. Quetta nectariae (S. P. I. No. 18235) on common peach 

 (P. I. G. No. 8562). 



34685. Quetta nectarine (S. P. I. No. 18235) on A. davidiana (P. I. G. 

 No. 8481). 



34686. Crosby nectarine (S. P. I. No. 11777) on apricot stock (S. P. I. 

 No. 26048). 



34687. Crosby nectarine (S. P. I. No. 11777) on A. davidiana (S. P. I. 

 No. 26604). 



34688. Crosby nectarine (S. P. I. No. 11777) on common peach 

 (P. I. G. No. 8562). 



34689 and 34690. Diospyros kaki L. f. Persimmon. 



34689. Diospyros Jcaki (S. P. I. No. 16921) on D. lotus. 



34690. Diospyros kaki (S. P. I. No. 22350) on D. lotus. 



34691 to 34694. 



From Manila, Philippine Islands. Presented by Mr. 0. W. Barrett, cliief, 

 Division of Horticulture. Biu*eau of Agriculture. Received December 13, 1912. 

 Quoted notes by Mr. Barrett : 



34691. Antidesma buxius (L.) Sprengel. Bignay. 

 •'A small, handsome tree, dioecious, with simple, dark -green, leathery leaves. 



The fruit is small, dark red, sweet, subacid in flavor, and produced in long 

 racemes like the cun-ant, and may be eaten raw or made into jelly." 

 See S. P. I. No. 18393 for previous introduction. 



Distribution. — Throughout the hotter parts of India and eastward through the 

 Malay Archipelago to the Philippines. 



34692. MoMORDicA cochinchinensis (Lom-.) Sprengel. 



"An attractive climber of medium-vigorous growth, bearing roundish oblong 

 fruits a little larger than an orange, having short orange-colored spines." 



Distribution. — Southeastern Asia, extending from India to China, and in the 

 Malay Archipelago eastward to the Philippines. 



34693. UvARiA. sp. 



"An oblong semirenifonn fruit that grows in bunches of 30 to 50. The fruit 

 is orange yellow in color; the flesh is yellowish and sweetish, gelatinous, and 

 inclined to be acrid near the seed. The fruit grows on a scandent shrub, which 

 should be considered an ornamental rather than an economic." 



34694. Canarium sp. Pili nut. 

 "A large tree, indigenous to the Philippines, that produces an edible nut of 



excellent quality. There are two species — Canarium ovatum and Canarium 

 pachyphyllum. Owing to the fact that the nuts of the two species are so similar 

 to each other, it is impossible, not having seen the tree from which the nuts were 

 obtained, to say to which species the seeds belong which are being sent you. 

 Pili nuts are to some extent cultivated in southeastern Luzon, interplanted with 

 coconuts." 



