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Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 5-- 



Index of common and scientific name.< Gl. 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Plate I. The edible bamboo of tlie eastern Himalayas. {Dendrocalamus 



liamUtonii Nees and Arn., S. P. I. No. 53900) 8 



II. One of the handsomest flowering trees of the Tropics {Spatho- 



dea campanulaia Beauv., S. P. I. No. 53983) 8 



III. A fruiting branch of the Andean currant. {Ribes punctatum 



Ruiz and Pav., S. P. I. No. 53994) 18 



IV. The huantuc, a favorite ornamental plant of the Quichua In- 



dians. (Da/wra rose/ Safford, S. P. I. No. 54049) 18- 



III 



