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SEEDS AXD PLAXTS IMPOKTED. 



49340. Castaxopsis hystrix A. DC. FagacetT. 



From Darjiliug, India. Seeds presented by G. H. Cave, curator, Lloyd 

 Botanic Garden. Received March 18, 1920. 

 A low evergreen tree with wide-spreading branches, fairlj^ common at low 

 altitudes on Mount Omei, Szechwan, and in the surrounding country. The 

 contrast between the rufous-brown young leaves and the shining green upper 

 surfaces of the older leaves is striking. (Adapted from Sargent, Plantae 

 Wilsonianue, vol. 3, pt. 1-2, p. 197.) 



49341. Saccharum officinarum L. Poacese. Sugar cane. 



Prom Cienfuegos, Cuba. Seeds presented by Robert M. Grey, Harvard 

 Botanical Station. Received January 29, 1920. 

 " High in sugar, averaging from 19 to 20 per cent sucrose in our own hand- 

 mill analyses." {Grey.) 



49342. Triticum aestivu^e L. Poacese. Wheat. 



(T. vulgare Vill.) 



From New South Wales. Seed obtained through J. W. T. Duvel, United 

 States Grain Corporation, New York. Received January 31, 1920. 

 RosewortJi. [This is the name of an agricultural station in New South Wales. 

 No description of this variety is at present available.] 



49343. Rosa laxa Retz. Eosacese. Rose. 



From Elstree, Herts, England. Seeds presented by Hon. Vicary Glbbs, 



Aldenham House Gardens. Received January 31, 1919. 

 A beautiful single rose, native to the Altai Mountains and central Siberia. 

 It has arching stems, seven to nine oblong, serrate leaflets, and very attractive 

 white or pink flowers which are borne singly or in twos or threes. The globose 

 pulpy fruits are bright red. (Adapted from Willmott, The Genus Rosa, pt. 

 8, pi. 63.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 47161. 



49344. Haematostaphis pierreana Engl. Anacardiacese. 



From Lambarene, Gabon, French Equatorial Africa. Seeds presented by 

 Edward A. Ford, Societe des Missions Evangeliques de Paris. Received 

 January 31, 1920. 



" Seeds of a native fruit which I saw for the first time only recently. It has 

 a very acrid taste, but makes excellent jam. I have not seen the tree; the 

 name given me by the Fang people is ^0^70. It may be the same as the ofos, 

 Pseudospondias longifolia {Haematostaphis pierreana), but I am not sure." 

 {Ford.) 



A tall tree with dense foliage composed of unequally pinnate membranous 

 leaves over a foot in length. The fruit is ovoid with a thick layer of flesh, and 

 is about an inch in length. (Adapted from Engler, Botanische JahrMcher, vol. 

 S6, p. 219.) 



49345. Coix LACRYMA-JOBi L. Poaceae. Job^s-tears. 



From Hangchow, Chekiang, China. Seeds collected by O. F. Cook, of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. 

 Received February 2, 1920. 

 "A form of Job's-tears with somewhat flattened seeds." {Cook.) 



