754 
Viburnum sargenti. (Caprif oliaceae . ) 37612. Seeds of 
a viburnum from Kew, England. Presented by Sir David 
Prain, Director, Royal Botanic Gardens. "This shrub 
usually grows from five to eight feet tall, with upright 
branches which, on adult plants, assume a dark gray corky 
appearance. The leaves are roundish ovate to obovate, 
usually three-lobed, rounded to square at the base, two 
and one-half inches long and two inches broad, dark yel- 
lowish green and smooth above, pale green and somewhat 
pilose beneath. The flattish corymbose flower cluster, 
with prominent showy neutral flowers surrounded by the 
corymbs, and the fertile flowers with purple anthers come 
in blossom about the first of June. The subglobose or 
rounded fruit, scarlet or orange-scarlet, ripens in Sep- 
tember. This species greatly resembles Viburnum americana, 
but differs from it in its more upright habit, larger ray 
flowers and the fruits which are not as brilliant and are 
considerably smaller and less abundant. Viburnum sargenti 
is perfectly hardy at Rochester, N. Y. , and there it is a 
very useful park and garden shrub." (Joseph Meehan, 
Florist's Exchange, May 20, 1911.) 
Ziziphus jujuba. (Rhamnaceae . ) 37475-476, 37484, 37489, 
37659, 37668. Cuttings of jujubes from Honan, Shensi, and 
Shansi, China. Among these six jujubes Is one variety 
joften bearing fruits as big as small hen's eggs, locally 
much used baked In bread, the trees of which are grown 
in large groves, the total acreage around Ling Pau, Honan, 
probably running well into the hundreds. Another variety 
has fruits good for drying as well as for eating fresh, 
and others are grown as ornamental trees. (Meyer's intro- 
ductions.) For distribution later. 
NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 
Mr. 0. F. Cook, who is now conducting an expedition 
to Guatemala, in cooperation with this office, writes from 
Trece Aguas, Guatamala, May 19, 1914. "After a little 
more study of the seeds of the supposed Reinhardtia palm, 
I am inclined to think that it will be rather hard to get 
them through alive, for the texture of the albumen is 
rather soft and loose, and there is no shell at all, only 
a thin membrane. Because of these characteristics I hope 
you have sent them right through to Florida without having 
the seeds cleaned as I first suggested. If we go out by 
Livingstone I shall try to get another supply of the trees 
with better fruit than those at Belize. 
"I believe I wrote you that the Paurotis palm at Belize 
had no fruit this year, and I am inclined to think that it 
is rather an off season generally for palms in this part 
