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SEEDS AND PLAXTS IMPORTED. 



39102 to 39141— Continued. 



on the higher Ghats from Kanara southward, in Burma and Ceylon. The 

 fruit, which is red, orange, or of a glaucous blue-black color, is some- 

 what dry, but very palatable. Large quantities are imported into the 

 bazaars of the hill stations for sale to Europeans. The fruit of this 

 species is similar in flavor to the common English blackberry, but vastly 

 superior and its cultivation might be rendered very productive. The 

 use of this species as a hedge plant is also recommended." {Watt, Dic- 

 tioiuiry of the Economic Products of India.) 



See S. P. I. Nos. 32453 and 38574 for previous introductions. 



39131. RuBUS PEDUNcuLosus Don. Rosaceae. Raspberry. 

 (Rubus niveus Wall.) 



"A large, rambling shrub met with in the temperate Himalayas, from 

 Kashmir to Bhutan, at altitudes between 6,000 and 10,000 feet on the 

 west, and 5.000 to 11,000 feet on the east. This species yields a fruit 

 which is very succulent and pleasantly tasted. It is yellowish or reddish 

 brown in color." (Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of India.) 



See S. P. I. No. 38575 for previous introduction. 



39132. Rubus paniculatus Smith. Rosacese. Baspberry. 



"A very rambling climber, which has all the parts, except the upper 

 surface of the leaves, covered with a dense tomentum. It is found in 

 the temperate Himalayas from Hazara to Sikkim, at altitudes between 

 3,000 and 8.000 feet, and in the Khasi Mountains between 4,000 and 

 5,000 feet. The fruit consists of numerous large, round, black drupes 

 and is edible but insipid in flavor. The wood is soft and porous with 

 very large medullary rays." {Watt, Dictionary o^ the Economic Products 

 of India.) 



See S. P. I. Nos. 23870 and 38576 for previous introductions. 



39133. SoRBus cusPiDATA (Spach) Hedlund. Malaceae. 

 {Pyrus vestita Wall.) 



"A deciduous tree which is a native of the eastern Himalayas and 

 may be found growing from Garhwal to Sikkim at altitudes between 

 9,000 and 10,000 feet. The fruit is edible and is sometimes used as 

 food." {Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of India.) 



"A deciduous tree of large size in a wild state, but rarely seen more 

 than 35 feet high under cultivation. The habit is rather gaunt ; branches 

 few, thick, covered when young with a white wool, which afterwards 

 falls away, leaving the shoots of a smooth, purplish brown. Leaves oval 

 or ovate, 5 to 7 (sometimes 9) inches long by 2^ to 5 inches wide, the 

 margins toothed, sometimes doubly so or slightly lobed ; upper surface 

 covered at first with a white cobweblike down, but soon becoming smooth, 

 lower surface covered with a persistent thick felt, at first white or yel- 

 lowish white, becoming grey later ; nerves parallel, in 10 to 17 pairs ; 

 stalk one-third to 1 inch long. Flowers white, five-eighths inch across, 

 produced in late ^May or early June in substantial corymbs 2 to 3 inches 

 wide ; petals woolly within ; stalks and calyx very woolly. 



" Native of the Himalayas, introduced in 1820. and the most striking 

 in its foliage of all the whitebeam group. Although nearly a century has 

 elapsed since it was first brought into cultivation, very few specimens of 



