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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 



36067 and 36068— Continued. 



*'Tlii5 shrub or small tree is a native of New Zealand and is known by the 

 colonists as the pink broom. The plant was discovered on Christmas, 1853, by 

 the late Dr. Miinro, on the sandy and rocky banks of the Wailiopai River, in 

 Nelson Province. This plant succeeds best in peaty soil, but it can also be 

 grown well in turfy loam. It is a moderate-sized slinib in cultivation in 

 England and produces weeping, cordUke, leafless branches, from which the 

 short racemes of pink or purplish flowers are freely produced." {Gardener's 

 Chronide, August 24, 1907; Hooker, New Zealand Flora.) 



36068. PiTTOSPORUM DALLn Cheeseman. 



"An ornamental small tree, gathered on the mountains of South Island. The 

 specimen is part of the only parcel of seed that has so far been secured. Sent me 

 by a botanical friend . ' ' {Petrk . ) 



"This is a remarkably distinct plant, with very different foliage from that of 

 any other New Zealand species. The flowers are quite unknown. This species 

 camefi-om the mountains near Collingwood, South Island. It is apparently a 

 small tree with stout branches, the youngest of which are glabrous and are covered 

 with a yellow bark." ( T. F. Cheeseman, Manual of the New Zealand Flora.) 



From Peradeniya, Ceylon. Presented by !Mr. H. F. Macmillan, superintendent. 

 Royal Botanic Gardens. Received August 28, 1913. 

 ''Mountain papaw. A small semiherbaceous tree with a crown of lai'ge, coarse, 

 palmate leaves, native of Colombia and Ecuador, similar to the papaw of the low coun- 

 try, but with fruit only about one-fourth or one-sixth the size of that of the latter. It 

 has been introduced at Hakgala Gai'dens, Ceylon, in 1880, and is now commonly grown 

 in hiU gai-dens for the sake of its fruit, being often found in a seminatui'alLzed state about 

 up-country bungalows. The ovoid angular fruit is in season all the year round ; though 

 too acid to be used for dessert, it is very agi-eeable when stewed, and it can also be 

 made into jam and preserves. "When ripe, the fmit has a pleasant applelike odor. 

 Propagated by seed." {Macmillan's Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting.) 



From Belra, Mozambique. Presented by the Director of Agriculture. Received 

 August 30 and September 2, 1913. 

 " Cuttings of the Diamond mango obtained from the island of Chiloane in this ter- 

 ritory." 



These are supposed to be the same as the Lathi-op mango, described under S. P. I. 

 Nos. 9486 and 9669. 



36071. RuBus PHOENicoLASius Maxim. Bramble. 



From Cambridge, England. Presented by iMr. R. Irwin LjTich, curator, Cam- 

 bridge Botanic Gardens. Received August 29, 1913. 

 "A conspicuous and unique-looking Japanese bramble, the young shoots and leaf 

 stalks of which are densely clothed with long bright-red setae and very long stalked 

 glands of the same color. As the plant matures, the deep color gives way to a paler 

 shade. The paper}" leaves, the under surfaces of which are of almost a snowy white- 

 ness, are trifoliate on both the barren and fertile stems, the long-stalked terminal leaflets 

 being much the largest. The compact panicles of the fiiiit are borne on short branches 

 given off at right angles from the main stem, thus forming a compact pillar almost from 

 the ground. When ripe, the fruit is of a beautiful bright coral red." {Gardener's 

 Chronicle, 1879.) 



36069. Caeica candamarcensis Hook. f. 



Mountain papaya. 



36070. Mangifeka ixdica L. 



Mango. 



