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SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38671 to 38674— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. G. Regnard.) 



and leaves showed at the same time. The seeds will be analyzed in our 

 Department of Agriculture, and I shall give you the result. It is to be 

 feared that the crop of seeds will be poor, as we have had very windy 

 weather which has been an obstacle to the pollination." 



38672. RoscHERiA melanochoetes Wendland. Phoenicace.T. Palm. 

 Fruit tree, from Saigon. Indo-China." 



38673. PHOENicopnoRiuM bobsigiaxum (Koch I Stuutz. Phoenicaceae. 

 {Stevensonia grajidifolia Duncan.) Palm. 



See Hooker, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, plate 7277, for full description. 



38674. RoLLiNiA MUCOSA (Jacq.) Baillon. Annonacete. 

 (RoUinia sieberi A. DC.) 



" Fruit tree, very large fruited." 



"A small tree with the habit of Annona reticulata L. with large edible 

 fruit not equal in flavor to that of the cherimoya or sugar-apple." (Saf- 

 ford, Classification of Annor^a, Contr. U. 8. Xat. Herh., tol. IS, p. 5S-60. 

 1914, which see for full description and illustration.) 



38675. AxxoNA cherimola Miller. Annonaceae. Cherimoya. 



From Brisbane, Australia. Presented by Mr. Leslie Gordon Corrie. Scions 

 received July 1, 1914. 



38676 to 38684. 



From Cuzco, Peru. Presented by Dr. A, A. Giesecke, president, University 

 of Cuzco. Received July 1, 1914. 



38676 to 38678. Amygdalus pebsica L. Amygdalaceae. Peach. 

 (Prunus persica Stokes.) 



38676. Special white. 38678. Special white. 



38677. Doncietitas. 



38679. Amygdalus peksica xectabina Ait. Amygdalaceje. Nectarine. 

 38680 to 38683, Amygdalus persica L. Amygdalaceje. Peach. 

 {Prunus persica Stokes,) 



Seeds of four distinct varieties of peaches introduced, like the preced- 

 ing, for the work of Mr, W, F. Wight in breeding rosaceous plants. 

 ■ 38684, Prunus salicifolia H. B. K. Amygdalaceae. Black cherry, 



•'Not only is the rum cherry (Prunus serotina) widely spread in North 

 America, but one of its forms reaches through Mexico, across the Isth- 

 mus of Panama, as far south as the mountains of Peru. Near Quito, 

 in Ecuador, where this tree grows on the Equator, it appears to be in 

 fruit the whole year round. This is P. salicifolia." (IF. J. Bean, Trees 

 and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2. p. 251.) 



38685 and 38686. Oryza sativa L. PoacecT. Rice. 

 From Spain. Presented by Mr. Claude I. Dawsou. American consul. 

 Valencia, Spain, Received July 2, 1914. 

 "Two strains of the Benlloch (or Belloch) variety. The commercial classes 

 of rice in the Valencia region, especially along the north and south banks of the 

 Jucar River, or center of the rice district, are at present Benlloch (or Belloch^ 



