6. 
BRAZIL, Sao Paulo. Alberto Lofgren, Jan. 10. Is going to 
take a trip thru the northern states of Brazil to study 
dry land agriculture. Will cross a region almost unknown 
. "botanically and offers to send us samples of seeds or plants. 
INDIA, Nagpur. .J. W. Mollison, Jan. 18. Sends seeds of wild 
peach (Aru) , nectarine (Munda aru) and Pyrus variolosa. 
(Shegal . ) 
INDIA, Sibpur, Calcutta. Superintendent Royal Botanical Garden, 
Jan. 19. Sends seed of Phyllanthus emblica. 
JAVA, Lawang. M. Buys man, Dec. 23. Is sending 4 plants of 
Dahlia coccinea. 
KOREA, Unsan. J. D. Hubbard, Jan. 12. Sends seeds of a cotton 
grown north of the 40th parallel, probably the hardiest 
cotton in existence. Thinks it will grow in the most north- 
ern of our own states. Also sends seeds of the Guar-ree 
plant, a beautiful ornamental bush two feet high covered with 
red pods; the fruit inside the pod is much relished by the 
Korean singing and dancing girls. They claim it improves 
the voice. 
MEXICO, La Paz. Mary Sullivan, Jan. 5. Sends samples of fruit 
from the Cualte Comate tree. The Indians believe that this 
fruit filled with mescal and taken will cure pulmonary 
trouble . 
RECENT VISITORS. 
ENGLAND. Mr. Henry S. Wellcome, Whitehall Court, London; 
until March 1, 1910, care of Harmon, Guayaquil, Ecuador. 
The wealthy American-London druggist, the proprietor of the 
Wellcome Research Laboratory of Khartoum, Egypt. He is very 
much interested in plant introduction, particularly of 
drug plants. Expects to visit in Mr. Harmon's yacht the west 
coast of South America and penetrate into the interior . Says 
the British Consul, Mr. Soederstrom at Quito is a remarkable 
naturalist and from him we can get information regarding ' the 
wild species of Solanum. Mr. Wellcome 's explorations in 
Ecuador, Peru and. Columbia lead him to think that the best 
