34289. GCSSY PI UM HIR- 



SUTUM. Cotton. From the Agricul- 

 tural College, Coimbatore, India, 

 through Prof. C. V. Piper. This cotton 

 is said to have been introduced from 

 Cambodia into South India, where it 

 has yielded far more heavily than any 

 other cotton. It is of the American 

 Upland type. 



26319. GREIGIA SPHACE- 



LATA. "Chupon." From Mr. Jose D. 

 Husbands, Limavida, Chile. A bro- 

 melia-like stemless plant w^ith dense- 

 ly clustered sword-shaped leaves re- 

 sembling those of the pineapple. The 

 flowers are purplish and the fruit is 

 fragrant and wedge-shaped, with 

 pleasantly flavored sweet juice. It 

 grows in a comparatively moist cli- 

 mate. 



36705. GREVILLEA BANKSII 



From Messrs. Dorsett, Shamel and 

 Popenoe, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Small 

 broad-topped evergreen tree, some- 

 whatsimilarto the Silk-oak, G. robusta, 

 12 to 20 feet high, with rough ashy 

 brown bark, deeply pinnatifid leaves 

 G to 8 inches long and 5 to 6 inches 

 wide, dull green above, silvery beneath 

 and numerous racemes, 3 to 5 inches 

 long, of beautiful rose-red flowers. 

 Native of Australia. 



