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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38499 to 38514— Continued. 



38506 to 38508. Citrus atjk^tium L. Bitter orange. 



38506. No. 12. {Djeroek pandan.) 38508. No. 15. {Dje- 



38507. No. 14. {Djeroek balie.) roek MUe.) 

 38509 and 38510. Se%-zrixia blxifglia (Poir.) Tenore. Rutaceae, 



(Atalantia buxifolia Oliv.) 



38509. No. 16. One plant. 38510. No. 17. One plant. 



38511. Atalantia monophylla DC. PtUtaceae. 

 No. 20. Var. genuina Hochr. 



"A large shrub or small tree, native to India. Ceylon, Burma. Slam, 

 and Indo-Chlna, usually spiny ; leaves glabrous or sometimes pubescent, 

 1 to 3 inches long ; petioles short, slightly or not at all winged ; flowers 

 borne in axillary panicles ; calyx irregularly lobed. split to the base on 

 one side; petals usually 4, stamens 8, the filaments connate and form- 

 ing a completely closed tube; ovary 3 to 5 celled; fruit from one-half 

 to three-fourths of an inch in diameter, with skin like a lime, globose, 

 with several cells (generally 4). each usually containing one seed and 

 filled with pulp vesicles, making the fruit much like a miniature orange. 

 This tree, still little known outside of India and Ceylon, the type of the 

 genus Atalantia, is one of the promising species for trial as a stock on 

 which to graft other citrus fruits and also for use in breeding new 

 types of citrns fruits. The fruits yield an oil which in India is con- 

 sidered a valuable application in chronic rheumatism." (TT. T. Swingle. 

 In Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture.) 



38512. DiosPYBOs pebegeixa ( Gaertn. ) Guerke. Diospyraceie. 

 (Diospyros embryopteris Pers.) 



No. 21. 



See S. P. I. No. 33567 for previous introduction and description. 

 38513 and 38514. Gabci:?sia kldia Roxb. Clusiaceje. 



38513. No. 23. One plant. 38514. No. 24. One plant. 



" Toung-tlia-lai. An evergreen tree 50 to 70 by 20 to 30 by 5 to 6 

 feet. Berry the size of a small Ume, globular ovoid, dark purple- 

 brown, much depressed at the apex, terminated by a nipple-shaped 

 protuberance on which the thick and short-styled stigma rests. Fre- 

 quent in the moister upper mixed and in the tropical forests all 

 over Burma fi-om Chittagong. Pegu, and Martaban down to Tenas- 

 serim and the Andamans. Flowers in March to May, fruits May 

 to June. Shade loving. Substratum permeable sandstone and meta- 



' morphic. Wood white, turning yellowish, rather heavy, coarsely 

 fibrous, loose grained, very perishable. Yields inferior gamboge." 

 (Tesque, Guttiferw.) 



38515 and 38516. Cha:mazdorea spp. Phoenicaceae. 



From Senahu, Department of Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Collected by Mr. 

 O. F. Cook, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Received June 11. 1914. 

 Quoted notes by Mr. Cook. 



38515. Chamazdoeea sp. Canquib palm. 



"A handsome dwarf, finely pinnate-leaved palm, growing in the deep 

 shade of mountain forests and dry protected hillsides in the Senahu 

 district at an altitude of 2,000 to 4,000 feet. Grows up to 3 feet in 



