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"I am informed that to properly mature dates a steady sustained, hot, dry wind for 
about 30 days is necessary and that this condition prevails nowhere in the consular 
district except in the neighborhood of Panjgur. " < Lv.pton.) 
This is probably the famous Mozati date introduced under S. P. I. No. 8762. 
33191. Miscanthus japonicus (Thunb.) Oerst. 
From Yokohama. Japan. Purchased from the Yokohama Nursery Co. Received 
March 23. 1912. 
"This has been found in our experimental work to produce a light bulky paper in 
many respects similar to that made from esparto. The yield of fiber is up to the 
average of esparto, and there may be areas where the plant can be grown especially 
for paper making. It thrives on the poorer soils in this region (Washington. D. C.) 
and has been grown with some success even in Maine: the excessive winter killing 
here, however, would prevent its becoming a successful crop plant."' (Charles J. 
Brand.) 
Seeds. 
Distribution. — The provinces of Kiangsu. Kiangsi, and Kwangtung in China, and 
in Japan and the Malay Archipelago. 
33192. Terminally catappa L. Katappa. 
From Sibpur. Calcutta. India. Presented by Maj. A. T. Gage. Superintendent, 
Royal Botanic Gardens. Received March 23, 1912. 
Distribution. — A tree, often 80 feet high, found in the plains of India and generally 
cultivated in tropical countries. 
33194 to 33201. Rosa spp. Rose. 
From Kew, England. Presented by Dr. David Prain. Director, Royal Botanic 
Garden. Received March 19. 1912. 
Cuttings of the following, procured for breeding experiments: 
33194. Rosa beggeriaxa Schrenk. Rose. 
Distribution. — A shrub, growing as high as 10 feet, found on mountain slopes 
from 5.000 to 10.000 feet in elevation from the Caspian Sea and Persia eastward 
through Turkestan and Afghanistan to Mongolia. 
33195. Rosa webbiaxa Wall. Rose. 
Distribution . — Dry slopes of the Himalayas in northern India from Kashmir 
to western Tibet at an elevation of 5,000 to 13.500 feet. 
33196. Rosa acicularis xippoxexsis (Crepin) Koehne. Rose. 
Distribution. — The slopes of Mount Fujiyama, in Japan. 
33197. Rosa spixosissima L. Rose. 
Variety hispida. 
33198. Rosa spixosissima L. Rose. 
Variety lutea. 
33199. Rosa cixxamomea malyi (Kern^ Skeels. Rose. 
(Rosa malyi Kern 1869, in Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift. 
vol. 19. p. 325.' 
Cuttings of this rose were received under the name Rosa malyi. In 1902 this 
form was referred by Keller (Ascherson and Graebner, Synopsis der Mitteleur- 
opaischen Flora, vol. 6, p. 305) to Rosa pendulina, which was publisbed by 
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