1050 
growing decldous tree, 50-80 feet high, and sometimes 
20 feet in diameter, growing chiefly near streams in 
tropical sub-Himalayan regions, also in low elevations 
in western and southern India. The wood obtained from 
this important timber tree is not eaten by white ants, 
is durable and not liable to warp. It is used for 
furniture, carvings, cigar and tea boxes. The bark is 
used as a tonic, and the flowers are the source of 
red and yellow dye. The seeds, young shoots and leaves 
are given to cattle as fodder. (Adapted from Watt, 
Commercial Products of India, p. 290, under Cedrela 
toona. ) 
Triticum spp. (Poaceae.) 43340-43373. Prom Mon- 
tevideo, Uruguay. Presented by Mr. L. Moreira Acosta, 
Laboratorlo Agronomico. W A collection of prize wheats 
of the First National Exhibit of wheats. These wheats 
are degenerates, but adaptable to our climate, which 
has several drawbacks to the cultivation of cereals, 
due to their resistance and robustness. You will be 
able to judge our progress in the cultivation of this 
cereal which has only in late years had scientific 
attention devoted to it by our agricultural experts 
who have studied In our institutes." {Acosta.) 
Notes from Correspondents abroad. 
Mr. Wilson Popenoe writes from Guatemala City, January 
18, 1917, as follows: 
"I am just back from a successful trip through 
the Highlands. I went in company with a young American 
from Boston, who is here in the interests of the Bab- 
son Statistical Organization. Our route was as fol- 
lows: From Guatemala City to Chimaltenango the first 
day, stopping there over night, and riding the second 
day to Tecpan. Here we spent a day, and then rode to 
Fanajachel, where we spent another day and rode to 
Solola, thence to Totonicapan. Here we spent a day 
and then rode to Quezaltenango, where we spent two 
days, and then walked to San Felipe, whence we took 
the railroad to Mazatenango, stopped there a day, and 
came on back to Guatemala City. It was a very inter- 
esting trip but one of the coldest propositions I have 
met in a long time. Between Solola and Totonicapan 
we rode at midday for several miles over a plateau 
just below 10,000 feet in elevation, where the ice 
had not yet melted in the puddles beside the road, 
And this in the Tropics! For a; out a week we were 
above 7000 feet nearly all the time, and of course I 
