ItilSTITUT NATIONAL 
POUR L'ETUDE AGRONOMIQUE 
AU CONGO BELGE 
STATION DE 
MULUNGU - TSHIBINDA 
n” 3537/Etr.-l640/l)lr.- 
Dear Dr Schmitt, 
I wish to thank you for your letter and for 
the interesting informations on Parana pine ( Araucaria angus - 
tif olia (Begti) Now that I know its scientific name 
I can teil“you that your feeling was entirely right when you 
told me it v/ould grow at Mulungu. It actually does under the 
of Araucaria brasiliana which is a synonym of A. angus - 
tifolia . I have only five plants of them which were planted 
out in 1930. Here are their measurements in case they would 
interest Dr Dayton. Unfortunately all of them are female trees, 
so that the strobiles they produce are not fertile. Now that 
I am sure there is no male plant I will intruduce more seeds, 
but it vy'ill last many years before I will have pollen. 
Enclosed you will find the list of determina- 
tions of the herbarium material Dr Baker left at Mulungu ex- 
perimental Station. Some of the samples v/ere real puzzles 
owing to the lack of flowers. Even the botanical Division of 
\ Ineac at Yangambi, to which I had sent the specimens I could 
not name myself, was unable to determine all of them. 
I have taken a picture of the conical concrete 
hut build to the model of the native huts, but in permanent 
material. As soon as the Kodachrome slide will be developed I 
v/ill send it to you, 
V/ith my best regards 
Yours sincerely 
-D * 
L. HSNDRICKX, 
Director. 
Dr Waldo L. Schmitt 
U.3. National Museum 
WASHINGTON - 25 - D.C. 
