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37983 to 38041— Contd. (Quoted notes by Dorsett and Popenoe.) 



38035. Capeiola dactylon (L.) Kuntze. Poacese. 



(Cynodon dactylon Pers.) Bermuda grass. 



"(No. 212a. March 23, 1914.)" 



38036. Arrhenathebum elatius (L.) Beauv. Poacese. 



Oat-grass. 



"(No. 213a. March 24, 1914.)" 



38037. Cymbopogon rufus (Nees) Rendle. Poaceae, 

 {Andropogon rufus Kunth.) 



"(No. 214a. March 24, 1914.) Capim jaragua." 



38038. Melinis minutiflora Beauy. Poacese. Molasses grass. 

 "(No. 215a. March 23, 1914.) Capim gordura roxo." 



38039. Panicum bulbosum H. B. K. Poacese. Guinea grass. 

 " (No. 216a.) Capim guine, or guinea grass." 



38040 and 38041. 



From Bahia, Brazil. Collected March 19, 1914. 



38040. HoMOLEPis isocalycina (Meyer) Chase. Poacese. 

 {Panicum isocalydnum, Meyer.) 



"(No. 221a.) Seed from grass growing in clay on a hillside in a 

 small pasture near the ' Centro Agricola ' Experiment Station near 

 Bahia. Grass roots at joints." 



38041. Panicum laxum Swartz. Poacese. 



"(No. 222a.) Seed from grass growing in clay soil on a hillside in 

 a small pasture near the ' Centro Agricola ' Experiment Station 

 near Bahia. This appears to be a bunch grass; soil dry; exposed 

 situation." 



38042 and 38043. Cinchona spp. Rubiaceee. 



From Kalimpong, Bengal, India. Presented by Mr. Henry F. Green, man- 

 ager, Government Cinchona Plantations, at the request of the superin- 

 tendent of cinchona cultivation in Bengal. Received May 2, 1914. 



38042. Cinchona officinalis L. Cinchona. 

 " The loxa or crown bark, the pale bark of commerce. This is a 



native of Ecuador and Peru and with C. succiruhra was the species as- 

 signed by Markham to his colleague, Spruce, to discover. It is grown 

 at high elevations (above 7,000 feet) in the Nilgiris, Ceylon, and Sik- 

 kim, but not extensively. It is a weak, straggling tree, attaining at 

 most only 20 feet in height. Its cultivation in Sikkim has, however, been 

 almost abandoned, owing to the climate being too moist, but it is per- 

 haps the most important of the species grown in the Nilgiri Hills." 

 {Watt, Commercial Products of India.) 



38043. Cinchona succirubra Pavon. Cincliona. 

 "The red bark is largely cultivated on the hills of South India at 



altitudes of 4,500 to 6,000 feet ; at higher altitudes the growth is too small 

 to make its cultivation profitable. On the hills east of Toungoo in Burma 

 and in some parts of the Satpura Range of Central India it is grown, 

 and also met with in the Government plantations of Sikkim, but it is 

 not popular, and is rapidly being replaced by C. calisaya var. ledgeriana. 

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