32 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Jan.-March 
Summary 
Applicable to countries oversea, and to Portuguese East Africa, mandated 
territory of South- West Africa, or any State or Territory in Africa north of the 
Zambesi, except Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, or in the case of plants other 
than maize and barley, the Belgian Congo. 
IMPORTATION PROHIBITED 
Acacia spp., wattle trees but not the seeds (Act No. 11 of 1911). 
Alfalfa or lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) hay, fresh or dried, to prevent the 
introduction of clover canker, crown gall, or crown wart (Urophlyctis alfalfae 
(v. Lagerh.) Magn. (Proclamation No. 151 of 1937.) 
Arctium spp., burdock, seeds, and flowering seed heads. (Proclamation No. 
331 of 1937.) 
Broomcorn (Sorghum vulgar e var. technicum (Koern.) Jav.), or articles made 
thereof containing unshredded broomcorn stalk, to prevent the introduction of the 
European corn borer (Pyrausla nuMlalis Hbn.). (Proclamation No. 286 of 
1936.) 
Chestnut (Castanea spp.) plants and seeds of any species from North America 
or any other country where the chestnut blight disease (Endothia parasitica 
(Murr.) Ander. and Ander.) exists. Proclamation No. 286 of 1936.) 
Citrus trees, except by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, to prevent 
the introduction of citrus canker. (Proclamation No. 286 of 1936.) 
Coniferous plants but not the seeds. (Act No. 11 of 1911.) 
Elm (TJlmus spp.) plants and seeds of any species from the continent of 
Europe and any other country where the Dutch elm disease (Graphium ulmi 
Schwarz) exists. (Proclamation No. 286 of 1936.) 
Eucalyptus spp., gum trees, but not the seeds. (Act No. 11 of 1911.) 
Fruits: Apples, pears, quinces, and loquats (Malus, Pyrus, Cydonia, Erio'bo- 
trya), from China, Chosen, East Siberia, Japan, and Manchuria, to prevent the 
introduction of such fruit pests as the oriental fruit moth ((Cydia) Grapho- 
'litha molesta Busck), (Garposina sasakii Mats.), a fruit moth, etc. (Proclama- 
tion No. 286 of 1936.) 
Citrus fruits (Citrus spp.) and the peel thereof, whether fresh or dried, 
but not candied peel, to prevent the introduction of citrus canker (Bac- 
terium citri (Hasse) Doidge). (Proclamation No. 151 of 1937.) 
Citrus fruits from southwest Africa are admitted without restriction and 
from a portion of the territory administered by the Companhia de Mo- 
cambique under certain conditions. (Proclamation 201 of 1937 and 202 
of 1937.) 
Stone fruits, fresh: Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.), cherry (Prunus spp.), 
nectarine (Amygdalus persica var. nucipersica) , peach (Amygdalus per- 
sica), plum (Prunus spp.). (Proclamation No. 285 of 1936.) 
Honey, jam, sirup, or malt, mixed with honey, medicines containing honey, fly 
tapes or fly papers containing honey, live bees, second-hand hives, and any con- 
tainer used for honey, bees, or beeswax. Medicines containing not more than 
25 percent of honey may be passed. Precaution against the introduction of 
American foulbrood and other bee diseases. (Act No. 11 of 1911, Government 
notices Nos. 1337 of 1925 and 2032 of 1930.) 
Opuntia spp. (Proclamation No. 151 of 1937.) 
Peach stones (Amygadalus persica L.). (Act No. 11 of 1911.) 
Plants packed in soil other than special rooting compost, to prevent the intro- 
duction of injurious insect pests and plant diseases that occur in soil. (Proc- 
lamation No. 286 of 1936. ) 
Sugarcane plants, rooted (Saccharum oyicinarum L.), to prevent the intro- 
duction of injurious pests and diseases of the sugarcane. (Government notice 
1793 of 1936.) 
Trees and plants ordinarily raised from seed, if the seed be easily procurable 
in the Union or can be readily introduced in a viable condition to prevent the 
introduction of injurious insect pests and plant diseases. (Government notice 
No. 1793 of 1936, as amended by Government notice No. 677 of 1937.) 
■Trees and fruit-bearing plants listed by nurserymen within the Union and 
procurable from them at or below the ordinary price for recent novelties of 
their class, unless the Department is satisfied that the strain of the variety 
procurable in the Union is an inferior one or untrue to type. (Government 
notice No. 1793 of 1936, as amended by Government notice No. 677 of 1937.) 
