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India, Jan. 8» "Seed of the large fruited variety of Aegis 
marmelos (Belou marmelos) known to Europeans as Bael fruit. 
It is a handsome tree with dark green shining leaves which 
have a resinous odorj it is common in the greater part of 
India, growing up to 4,000 feet; when cultivated is a 
middle sized tree of 35 feet, but when wild is a sorubby 
tree. The fruit is very muoh like an orange in shape, 
oolor and size. It is greatly valued for eating by the 
natives, hut can scarcely he looked upon as palatable to 
the white man except as a sherbet and for its medioinal 
properties. The unripe fruit is used as a speoifio for 
diarrhoea and dysentery, and the leaves, bark and roots 
are used as a febrifuge. It might be tried in several dis- 
tricts as it grows equally as well up here as in Calcutta 
where the air is moist and hot all the year round, and here 
it is very dry and hot in the summer with a temperature of 
112° -120° in the shade and in the winter with sometimes 12° 
of frost at night, but the Bael always looks healthy and 
green, no matter what the weather is; it is leafless for 
about one month only, January or February, and its one 
year's fruit is ripe about the same time that it is flower- 
ing for the next year's fruit." 
CUCUMIS. 24429. Prom Mr. A. W. Smith, Odessa, Russia, Deo. 
28. "This is a variety of sweet melon grown here. It is 
known here as Kachanka and sometimes also called "Tsesarka" 
on account of its spotted surface resembling a guinea fowl's 
plumage. 
CUCURBITA SP. 24354-357. Four kinds of squash from Jose D. 
Husbands, Limavida, Chile, Dec. 17. 
CYHODON DACTYLON. 24403. Prom Dr. J. W. Hart, Piraoicaba, 
Brazil, Feb. 28, '08. Numbered Dec, '08. "This grass is 
grown in Brazil under the name of Oraminaz fina. The var- 
iety is apparently distinct from the ordinary variety of 
Bermuda grass grown in the United States." 
DBLPHIITtUM, 24436. Prom W.C. Bgan, Highland Park, 111., 
Jan. 2. Free-blooming plants with lovely sky-blue flowers. 
The plants are dwarf and resemble Dianthus chinensis." 
