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35449. FICUS ULMIFOLIA. Fig. From Mr. C. F. Baker, 

 Los Banos, P. I. Very good edible Philippine fig, especially adapted 

 for moist, hot regions. Fruits sweet and palatable, axillary, nearly 

 all solitary with short stems, globose, hairy, or hispid in young state^ 

 eye half open and scaly. 



29359. FICUS UTILIS. M'pamah, from Lourenco Marques, 

 Portuguese East Africa, through O. W. Barrett. Medium-sized tree 

 of the open bush, preferring sandy land. If cut near the ground it 

 produces clean young coppice branches of rapid growth ; the bark is 

 removed from these and when beaten forms the native cloth in the 

 M'Chopes district. This cloth is softer than the South Sea " tapa/* 

 Injured but not seriously by 26° F. 



42721. FRAGAEIA VESCA. Strawberry. From Mr. Abe- 

 lardo Pachano, Ambato, Ecuador. Native Andean plant called 

 fresa^ closely related to the species usually found on the market,, 

 known as frutilla^ F. chiloensis. The fruit is much smaller and 

 rather acid in taste, but the plant is highly ornamental and weB 

 adapted for garden borders and as a ground cover in dry locations. 



42838. FEAXINUS OXYCARPA. Ash. From Kief, Russia. 

 Handsome ornamental tree, 60 to 70 feet in height. It is very simi- 

 lar to the narrow-leaved ash of southern Europe, F. angustifolia^ but 

 differs in having the leaflets somewhat downy beneath, and it is of a 

 more easterly range, reaching to Persia, the Caucasus, and Asia 

 Minor. 



44132. FRAXINUS sp. Imoden ash. From Mr. George Mac- 

 Cartney, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. A tall-growing timber tree, 

 which is able to withstand considerable drought and alkali. Of 

 probable value as a shade and timber tree in those sections of the 

 United States where the summers are hot and dry and the winters 

 are not too cold. 



44134. FRAXINUS sp. Ash. From Mr. George MacCartney, 

 Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. Ornamental shade tree from the hot^ 

 dry, and mild-wintered country about Kashgar. Possesses a fairly 

 high degree of resistance to drought and alkali. Should be tried in 

 the mild-wintered dry sections of the United States. 



42367. FUNTUMIA ELASTICA. From Mr. Eugene Jaegle, 

 Ivoloina, near Tamatave, Madagascar. A tall apocynaceous rubber 

 tree, up to 100 feet in height, with cylindrical trunk; pale spotted 

 bark; nearly oblong wavy margined leaves; and dense, many- 

 flowered clusters of white or yellowish flowers. This tree yields the 

 Lagos caoutchouc. Native of western Africa. 



