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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38100 to 38104— Continued. 



mandarin reproduces itself from seed, at least a few seedlings of 

 excellent quality ought to be obtained from these seeds." (Wester.) 



38103. Talauma sp. Magnoliacese. 



" A very ornamental tree in the Philippines. This species in all proba- 

 bility is too tender for the mainland of the United States." (Wester.) 



38104. MussAENDA PHiLiPPiCA A. Richard. Rubiaceje. 



" A very ornamental tree in the Philippines. This species in all proba- 

 bility is too tender for the mainland of the United States." (Wester.) 



"A shrub or small tree 3 to 5 meters high, more or less pubescent or 

 nearly glabrous. Leaves oblong ovate to oblong lanceolate, acuminate, 6 

 to 14 cm. long, base acute ; stipules about 4 mm. long, 2-fid. Cymes termi- 

 nal, rather open, pubescent, few flowered. Calyx about 7 mm. long, four 

 of the teeth as long as the tube, one very much enlarged as a white, leaf- 

 like, long-petioled, elliptic-ovate appendage, the lamina 4 to 8 cm. long. 

 Corolla yellow, pubescent, about 2 cm. long, enlarged upward. Fruit 

 about 1.5 cm. long. Common and widely distributed in the Philippines, 

 variable. Perhaps only the Philippine representative of the Indo-Malayan 

 Mussaenda frondosa L." (Merrill, Flora of Manila.) 



38105 to 38110. 



From Matania el Saff, Egypt. Presented by Mr. Alfred Bircher, Middle 

 Egypt Botanic Station. Received May 4, 1914. Notes by Mr. Bircher. 



"From Rhodesia. A watermelon with greenish flesh of poor taste, 

 but a good keeper, which can be stored away for six months or more ; it 

 may be valuable for hybridization purposes." 

 38106 and 38107. Hibiscus spp. Malvaceae. 



38106. Hibiscus physaxoides Guill. and Perr. 



" From the Kongo. The leaves are cooked like spinach ; the taste 

 slightly acid." 



Distribution. — ^A tall herb or under shrub with cordate 5-lobed 

 leaves and purple flowers, found in the Senegal region of Upper 

 Guinea, in the Mozambique district, and in the vicinity of Durban, 

 Africa. 



38107. Hibiscus sabdaeiffa L. Rosalie. 



38108. HoLCus HALEPENSis L. Poacese. Sudan grass. 

 (Sorghum halepense Pers.) 



"A fodder grass growing spontaneously in Egypt** 



38109. Phtsalis cubassavica L. Solanaceae. 

 "Berries edible in cooked state." 



38110. ViGNA sinensis (Torner) Savl. Fabaceae. Cowpea. 

 "Var. Mammoth, of gigantic growth." 



38111. Zephyranthes sp. Amaryllidaceae. 



From Bom Fim, Bahia, Brazil. Collected by Messrs. Dorsett, Shamel, and 

 Popenoe, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Received April 13, 1914. 

 " (No. 75. February 27, 1914.) A beautiful bright pink amaryllislike flower, 

 found in a field of Capim favorita." (Dorsett, Shamel, and Popenoe.) 



38102. Citrus sp. 



Lime. 



38105. CiTBULLUs vuLGABis Schrad. Cucurbitaceae. 



Watermelon. 



