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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38372 to 38398— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. H. H. Boyle.) 



38392. Gaecinia binucao (Blanco) Choisy. Clusiaceae. Batuan. 

 " Native name ' Batuan.* Native of Augusan Province. Might pos- 

 sibly prove a good stock for Garcinia mangostana.'* 



38393. Anacaedium occidentale L. Anacardiaceae. Cashew. 

 "A pink-fleshed variety, obtained from Mr. P. Morange, Director of the 



Botanic Gardens, Saigon, Cochin China." 



38394. Mangifera vebticillata C. B. Robinson. Anacardiaceae. 



Bauno. 



For previous introduction and description, see S. P. I. No. 34431. 



38395. Anacolosa luzoniensis Merrill. Olacaceae. Gale. 

 "A tree 20 to 30 feet in height, resembling in appearance the Diospyros 



virginiana. Produces small fruits the shape of an olive, the kernels of 

 vt^hich have the flavor of corn and contain very nourishing properties. 

 Found in the mountains of Cavite near the towns of San Francisco and 

 Silang." 



38396. GusTAviA gracillima Miers. Lecythidaceae. 



"A very pretty tree, obtained from Mr. P. Morange, Director' of the 

 Botanic Gardens, Saigon, Cochin China." 



38397. Antigonon guatimalense Meissn. Polygonaceae. 



" Obtained from the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements. 

 Flowers more numerous and much larger than A. leptopus." 



"A trailing or climbing plant, with slender, angular, pubescent stems, 

 the leaves about 4 by 3 inches, the upper ones smaller, supported on 

 short, terete downy stalks, and of a broadly ovate-oblong form, deeply 

 cordate at the base with two rounded lobes, the apex shortly acuminate. 

 The upper surface is puberulous, the lower softly downy. The flowers 

 are very numerous and borne in tufts along the sides of long racemes or 

 panicles, which terminate in branched tendrils. Each flower is raised 

 on a slender pedicel about three-fourths of an inch long, subtended by 

 an ovate-acute bract about half the length of the pedicel. The calyx, 

 which is the showy part of the flower, has five membranous segments; 

 the three outer are of a beautiful rosy pink color about 1 inch in length 

 by rather less in breadth, cordate at the base, oblong, rounded toward 

 the apex, which terminates in a very short deltoid point. Within these 

 are two other sepals of about the same length as the outer ones, but 

 much narrower, falcate, lanceolate, apiculate. Within these sepals are 

 eight stamens of unequal length, united into a short tube at the base 

 surrounding the 3-cornered ovary, hut above free. The fruit exceeds 

 the stamens in length, and is terminated by the remains of three styles, 

 each surmounted by a capitate stigma. Messrs. Shuttleworth and 

 Carder speak in the most glowing terms of the beauty of this plant, 

 and the specimens they have brought certainly confirm their good opin- 

 ion. It is much the finest Antigonon known to us." (M. T. Masters, in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, ser. 2, vol. 7, p. 780, 789, 1877.) 

 39398. Canarium ovatum Engler. Balsameaceae. Pili nut. 



38399 to 38404. 



From Guatemala. Collected by Mr. O. F. Cook, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received June 9 and 10, 1914. Quoted notes by Mr. Cook. 



