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P. H. Dorsett, A. D. Shamel, and Wilson Popenoe. These will be 

 of special interest to experimenters in California, southern Texas, 

 and Florida. They include a large- fruited variety of the cashew 

 (No. 37027), a fruit tree which deserves to be better known in 

 Florida. Not only is its fruit edible, both out of hand and preserved 

 or in the form of an ade, but the nut when roasted is one of the most 

 delicate of all table nuts. 



The pitomba {Eugenia luschnathiana^ No. 37017), a deep orange- 

 colored aromatic fruit of the myrtle family which ripens in Decem- 

 ber; the imbu {Spondias tuberosa^ No. 37018), a drought-resistant 

 tree of the caatinga lands of the interior of Brazil, the fruits of 

 which are consumed in great quantities, botji fresh and preserved, 

 and also used to a considerable extent in making imbuzada, a drink 

 peculiar to the country, made of the juice and pulp of the fruit mixed 

 with boiling milk; the so-called wild lemon {Rheedia eduUs, No. 

 37384), a relative of the mangosteen; the cambuca {Myrciaria edulis^ 

 No. 37094), a relative of the jaboticaba, with a flavor resembling that 

 of the passion fruit; the grumichama {Eugenia domheyi^ No. 36968), 

 another species of the myrtle famih^, which resembles remotely our 

 cultivated cherry and is pronounced by the members of the expedition 

 one of the most agreeably flavored fruits of its class; the gravata 

 (No. 36967), a wild relative of the pineapple, with straw-colored, 

 spicy, delightfully acid fruits and a skin containing a strong vege- 

 table acid which attacks the hands, lips, and mouth of anyone 

 thoughtless enough to handle it carelessly; the pera do campo (No. 

 37392), an extremely interesting wild fruit-bearing bush which has 

 not yet been cultivated, although it bears large pear-shaped aromatic 

 fruits on shoots not over 4 feet high ; the laranja da terra (No. 36971) , 

 a citrus stock on which in Bahia the navel orange is grown; the 

 laranja selecta (No. 36947), a promising variety of orange which it 

 is thought is likely to mature its fruits in California during spring 

 9nd summer, and as it has no thorns and produces fruits of ideal 

 shape for packing, it may possibly prove to be of considerable value 

 to citrus growers in Florida and southern California ; the lime orange 

 (Nos. 36949 to 36951), with a flavor halfway between that of the 

 orange and the lime; a shaddock reported to be seedless (No. 36946), 

 and a juicy pink-fleshed shaddock (No. 36945) are some of the other 

 introductions of the expedition covered by this inventory. 



The Japanese and Chinese persimmon collections now in this coun- 

 try have been materially added to through the introduction of 9 

 varieties (Nos. 37465 to 37473) collected by Mr. Meyer near Ling- 

 pao, Honan; 16 varieties (Nos. 37525 to 37540) from Nantotchu, 

 south of Sianfu; and a collection of 46 varieties (Nos. 37168 to 



