870 
Berberis brachypoda Maxim. (Berberidaceae . )40562. Plants 
of a barberry from Elstree, Herts, England. Presented by 
the Hon. Vlcary Glbbs. "A yellow-flowered scarlet-fruited 
barberry, related to B. amurensis, from Central and Western 
China. A shrub up to six feet in height with elliptic- 
oblong, acute leaves, pubescent on both sides, one and 
one-half to three and one-half inches long, racemes pubes- 
cent, slender, two to three inches long, fruits elliptic, 
up to 11 mm. long and 6 mm. across, with a sessile stig- 
ma." (Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, and Bailey, New Stand- 
ard Cyclopedia. ) 
Camoensia maxima Welw. (Pabaceae.) 40391. Seeds from 
Loanda, Angola, Portuguese West Africa. "This climbing 
legume is suited for large greenhouses only or for tropi- 
cal landscapes. It flowered at the Department greenhouses 
from October to December 1907. The plant is native to 
tropical West Africa, and was reported by Welwitsch, its 
discoverer, as adorning lofty trees in the outskirts of 
forests of the Golunga Alto 'with its splendid bunches of 
pendulous flowers, tinged with gold on the edge of the 
petals.' The flowers are borne in racemes of sometimes 
nearly a dozen and are probably the largest of all legumi- 
nous flowers. The individual flowers are as much as eight 
inches in length and the petals of a ghostly white, mar- 
gined with old gold. The standard is about four inches in 
width, while the other petals are quite slender. When 
first opening the flowers have a delicious fragrance." 
(R. A. Young. ) 
Castanea mollissima Blume? (Fagaceae.) 40508. Seeds of 
a chestnut from Sianfu, Shensi, China. "A large-fruited 
variety of Chinese chestnut, coming from Ya tze ko, south 
of Sianfu, called qui li tze, meaning 'superior chestnut.' 
This variety is propagated by grafting. It seems on the 
whole somewhat more resistant to the bark disease {Endothia 
parasitica) than the ordinary strain of Chinese chestnut." 
(Meyer's introduction and description.) It is interesting 
to note in this connection that a tree raised from seed of 
S.P.I. 21875 introduced by Mr. Meyer from Pangshan as 
Castanea sativa but since determined as Castanea mollissma 
Blume, which was planted out In my garden in 1908, was in- 
oculated by Mr. J. P. Collins of the Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry, Sept. 13, 1912. For a long time it showed no 
signs of the disease, but later developed a very mild form 
of it which was left on the tree until June 1st, 1913, 
when it was cut out. Notwithstanding the exposure to the 
disease which the inoculation and the long presence of the 
