BULLETIN OP FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS 
No. 8. Deo. 8 to 28, 1908. 
NSW PLANT IMMIGRANTS. 
CITRUS. 24311. Prom Brazil, Dec. 11. Sent by P. P. Demers. 
"Bahia navel orange. Cut from navel orange grafted on 
Laranga da terra. I have eaten one orange from one of 
these trees measuring 15 inches in circumferenoe and its 
flavor was delicious. The soil upon which the trees grow 
contains 60 per cent more or less of reddish clay. "(Demers* ) 
So ions sent to greenhouse. 
CITRUS. 24326. "Naartje." Prom Warm Baths, Transvaal, 
South Afrioa, Deo. 14, "Platskil" is a varietal name. 
The word means flat or smooth skin and it appears also 
to apply to the shape of the fruit. The skin adheres 
closely, "but can easily be removed with the thumb and 
finger," (R. A Davis.) See "Groenskil" var. , No. 24196, 
Bull. 7. 
COPBRNICIA CERIFERA. 24404. Carnauba palm. Prom Piraci- 
oaba, Brazil, Dec. 26. Presented by Dr. J, W. Hart. The 
stem furnishes starch, the sap sugar, the leaves a rope 
fibre, the pinnae are woven into mats, hats, baskets and 
brooms, the inner part of the leaf stalks serve as a sub- 
stitute for cork, and most important of all the young 
leaves are covered with a valuable wax, harder than that 
of bees and used for making candles, covering phonograph 
cylinders, eto. Bach tree furnishes about 4 lbs. of wax 
annually. 
DIOSCORSA SP. 24348. Prom Manila, P. I. , Deo. 16. "Tongo. 
This is by far the best yam in exist enoe in my opinion, 
which is based upon experienoe with 2 or 3 of the alleged 
best varieties of both the Bast and West Indies." (Wn« 8. 
Lyon, ) 
