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The following are a oolleotion of seeds from Abyssinia 
^presented by Mr, Hubert S. Smiley regarding which very 
meager Information is at hand. Received June 14. 
AHDROPOGOH SORGHUM. 29675-677. 
BRASSIGA SP. 25682. 
HOKDBUM SP. 25671-72. HORDBUM VULGARE. 25673-74. 
PHASEOLOB VULGARIS. 25683. 
PISUM. 25680. 
SBSAMUM ORUBTALE. 25681. 
TRITICUM DURUM. 25666-670. 
VICIA PABA. 25678-79. 
HOTBS PROM PORBIOlir CORRESPONDENTS . 
BRAZIL, Th.-Ottoni. Pred Biroh, May 13. Xe sending trail- 
ing beans— an extremely prolific climbing bean. De- 
scribes a fruit growing there called the Coupao. The fruit 
is a bread-like substance tasting like a mixture of nut 
butter and sweet bananas. It is a gigantic forest tree 
about 160 feet high and 6 feet in diameter. 
BURMA, King-Tung, Mrs. Robert Harper, April 26. In about 
a month will send mango and custard apple seeds and seeds 
of the Mak man yau, a plant which yields an oil used for 
giving light in houses. Laoquer is obtained from a tree 
oalled "My-hak. n It is obtained about as maple sugar is 
in America. The lacquer is dark in color, resembling 
tar) it hardens so rapidly that it has to be kept under 
water. 
CEYLOIT, Peradeniya. Curator Royal Botanio Garden, June 1. 
Sends Terminalia belerioa. 
CHILE, Limavida. Jose D. Husbands, May 23. Says there is a 
plant grown in the desert of Atacama oalled Algarobillo 
(Balsamocarpon brevifolium) which has 40 per cent of tan- 
nin in the entire tree— bark, wood and leaves. Will 
send seeds. Describes 4 kinds of wild "blackberries grow- 
ing there: Ho. 1. Grows ahout 16 feet high. Very rank 
growth — so much so that it is used for fences. Sometimes 
