4. 
INDIA, Sibpur, Calcutta. A. Gage, Dec. 7. Says he will be 
glad to help in introducing good mango varieties from 
India . 
JAMAICA, Kingston. W. Harris, Jan. 7. Sends a copy of the 
Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society for December, 
1909, containing a report on varieties of Castilla rubber 
in Costa Rica. 
JAVA, Buitenzorg, Department of Agriculture, Dec. 4. In the 
spring will send a Ward i an case containing plants of 
Atalantia bilocularis, A. puberula, A. monophylla, Feronia 
lucida, Glycosmis pent aphy 11a, varieties angusta and 
dilaxata, and Murraya exotica. 
MAURITIUS, Reduit. Dr. P. Boname , Nov. 29. Will send seeds 
of Diospyros tessel aria in April when they are r i.pe . This 
is one of the Diospyros species being introduced for use in 
persimmon breeding. 
REPORT FROM F. N. MEYER, AGRICULTURAL EXPLORER. 
Mr. Meyer has been delayed in St. Petersburg by the 
Russian Government which insists on the fulfillment of certain 
formalities before it allows him to enter Turkestan. In his 
letter of December 30 he writes that from the specimens of 
MEDIC AGO CANCELLATA which he saw in the herbaria of Kew, 
Berlin and St. Petersburg it does not appear to be a very 
robust species, but that it may improve under cultivation. He 
is going down to Sarepta to look up Mr. Chiskof who may assist 
him in getting seed of it. There are specimens of MEDIC AGO 
COERULEA in the St. Petersburg herbarium from South Russia and 
Sarepta; the species looks very promising and seems to be ex- 
tremely variable. There are many forms of MEDICAGO FALCATA, 
such as var . tenuifolia, with narrow leaflets, var . ambigu.a, 
of spindly growth, var. desertorum woody and with small' leaf- 
lets, var. tyiJica with few leaves and these very small. All 
these forms occur in the Alai mountains, the Ala tau, Thian 
Shan, around Issyk Kul , Verny, etc., in the region he is going 
to explore. MEDICAGO PLATYCARPA, occurring in the Ala tau and 
Thian Shan and isi the valley of the Hi, is a perennial species 
