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HIBISCUS MANIHOT. 27493. Purchased from the Yokohama Nursery 
Company, Yokohama, Japan. "The root of this plant is used 
by the Japanese as a size for their hand-made papers which 
are prepared from the inner hark of EDGEWORTHIA GARDNERI 
and various varieties of the paper mulberry. The root is 
macerated in water and added to the paper pulp. Mr. Iida 
of the Yokohama Nursery Company says that the best paper 
size in Japan is made from this plant." (Fairchild.) 
JUNIPERUS SP. > 27505. Prom Eritish East Africa. Procured 
through Mr." Raphael Zon. East African cedar occurs abun- 
dantly in all the drier forests in the mountains of British 
East Africa at altitudes of from 7,000-11,000 feet. It ap- 
pears to attain larger dimensions than any other juniper 
and often has a tall, straight, mast-like trunk. The wood 
is of great value and is scarcely distinguished from the 
typical cedar of the familiar lead pencil. Owing to the 
climatic condition under which this tree grows it is doubt- 
ful whether it will succeed in this country except possibly 
in Florida. For distribution later. JUNIPERUS PACHYPHLOEA . 
27497. Collected in the Alamo National Forest, New Mexico. 
Received through Mr. Raphael Zon. 
MANGIFERA INDICA. 27495. Mazagon mango from Kingston, Jamaica. 
Presented by Mr. Aston W. Gardner, Manager of the Tangley 
Fruit Company. For distribution later. 
MELILOTUS SPP. 27463-477. A collection of 15 varieties of 
MelilotUB from Madrid, Spain. Presented by the Madrid 
Botanical Garden. For distribution later. 
ROSA GIGANTEA. 27301. From Oporto, Portugal. Presented by 
Baron de Soutellinho, who procured his original plants 
from Zew. "It is now 25 years since Sir George Watt dis- 
covered this king of wild roses in Manipur, India. Here 
is an account of it by Mr. Hildebrand who knew and grew 
the rose in Burma. 'The plant is a creeper and does not 
flower until it grows beyond the tree on which it is climb- 
ing. The boles of some of the plants are as thick as a 
man's thigh. These specimens are on large evergreen trees. 
