895 
than the Hongkong Pumelo, though not seedless. I send 
seeds from a choice fruit given me at the Experiment Sta- 
tion, May 23. The pith of the fruit Is small and solid, 
the color like a good grapef ruit . " (W. T. Swingle.) 
Clematis stanleyi Hooker. (Ranunculaceae. ) 40844. Seeds 
of a clematis from Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. 
Presented by Mr. J. Burtt-Davy, Botanist, Agricultural 
Supply Association. "An erect robust herb, three feet in 
height with blternate, silky, wedge-shaped leaves and 
large white to pink-purple flowers, one to three inches 
across. ■ (Burtt-Davy. ) 
Cracca candidal DC. )Kuntze. (Pabaceae. ) 40894. Seeds from 
Peradenlya, Ceylon. Presented by Mr. H. P. Macmlllan, 
Superintendent, Royal Botanic Gardens. "Well-known in the 
East as Boga-medelloa . This grows rapidly and attains a 
height of eight to ten feet or more. It is a favorite 
plant for planting among crops for green maturing, and is 
probably the best for the purpose in tropical latitudes." 
(Macmlllan. ) 
Cracca villosa purpurea(li. )Kuntze. (Pabaceae. )40895. Seeds 
from Peradenlya, Ceylon. Presented by Mr. H. P. Mac- 
mlllan, Superintendent, Royal Botanic Gardens. "A peren- 
nial herb, one or two feet high, with few-flowered ra- 
cemes of purpll sh-pink flowers, used in the low country of 
Ceylon as a green manure, and in the dry regions as a 
mulch and sand-binder. A decoction of the bitter root Is 
used by the Hindoos for dyspepsia, diarrhoea, and flatu- 
lence . "(Macmlllan, Handbook of Tropical Gardening.) 
Dendrocalamus hamiltonii Nees & Arnott. (Poaceae. ) 40888. 
Seeds from Calcutta, India. Presented by Mr. William Bem- 
bower, Collins, Ohio. "A common bamboo in the eastern 
"'Himalaya from Kumaon to Assam. It is generally a tall 
grass 40 to 60 feet in height, but sometimes found as a 
long and tangled bush. The young shoots are used as food, 
being boiled and eaten in Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam. The 
halms are large, three to six inches in diameter, rather 
hollow and not always straight, but they are used for 
every variety of purpose. This Is the common bamboo of 
the Darjeeling Hills and Teral, of the Dours and the Assam 
Valley, and is in universal employment for building and 
basket and mat work, though as a building bamboo its com- 
parative softness and thin walls make it inferior to such 
species as Bambos tulda and balcooa. The young shoots are 
eaten as a vegetable. The inner layer of the culm- sheath 
