84 



SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38049 to 38052— Continued. 



honied odor is almost sickening in its intensity. According to Mr. G. M. 

 Thomson, the plant is probably often self -pollinated ; but Mr. Kirk points 

 out, in his Forest Flora, that though stamens and pistils are always 

 present, one or the other is often abortive, so that the flowers are often 

 practically unisexual. The wood of this species, like that of the other 

 species of the genus, is almost worthless. The tree is often cultivated 

 for its beauty, and is sometimes — though not so often as P. tenuifolium — 

 used to form an ornamental hedge." {Laing and Blackwell, Plants of 

 New Zealand.) 



38053. HoLCTTs sorghum L. Poacese. Sorghum. 



(Sorghum vulgare Pers.) 

 From San Giovanni a Teduccio, Italy. Purchased from Dammann & Co. 

 Received January 30, 1914. 

 *'Durra." 



38054 and 38055. Kubus bogotensis H. B. K. Rosacea?. 



Blackberry. 



From Bogota, Colombia. Procured by Mr. F. L. Rockwood, clerk, American 

 Legation, at the suggestion of Mr. Frank M. Chapman, curator, American 

 Museum of Natural History. Received May 6, 1915. 

 Rooted plants ; quoted notes by Mr. Chapman. 



38054. "A remarkable blackberry which we found growing near a 

 roadside posada, called El Pinyon, on the road between Bogota and 

 Fusagasuga. El Pinyon, with an altitude of 9,600 feet, is in the Tem- 

 perate Zone, with an average annual temperature of probably about 

 60°. The warm air from the Magdalena Valley at this point 

 draws up through a cut in the mountains and is condensed as it 

 reaches El Pinyon, at which place the descent to Fusagasuga begins ; the 

 result is a cold, perpetually moist climate, such as I imagine we should 

 find it very difficult to duplicate in the United States, and for this rea- 

 son it might be hard to introduce the berry into this country. As for 

 the berry itself, I, unfortunately, can tell you very little about it except 

 in regard to its size and flavor. We did not, I am sorry to say, even 

 make measurements of the berries, and I have therefore found great 

 difiiculty in making my friends believe my stories of its size. From 

 memory, however, I should say that its length was between 31 and 

 4 inches, its breadth between 2 and 2^ inches, and its height between 

 2 and 3 inches. The flavor was most delicious, and suggested in part 

 that of the blackberry of the subtropical zone of the Andes, known as 

 El Moral de Castile, and to some extent that of the raspberry. The 

 berries grew in small clusters of three or four, and not many 

 appeared to be on one bush. The bushes, as I remember, were rather 

 tall and scraggly, but they were placed with other vegetation, and I 

 gained no clear idea of their form. They were not abundant." 



38055. El Moral de Castile. This berry, which appears to grow wild, 

 attains a size and shape comparable to that of our best cultivated 

 varieties, and to my mind has a better flavor than any of them. It 

 may be found in abundance in the subtropical zone at an elevation of 

 6,000 to 8,000 feet ; or, to be more definite, at a posada about one hour 

 below El Pinyon, toward Fusagasuga, known as El Roble. Here, too. 



