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National Museum. "Caribe. One side golden yellow towards 
orange-yellow, the other side scarlet, nearly no fiber. Large, 
very good, with orange-yellow flesh of peculiar flavor. Very 
beautiful and highly esteemed. Comes perfectly true from seed. 
For hot, rather dry regions." (Werckle.) For distribution 
later. 
MYRTUS SFP. (Myrtaceae.) 33888-897, 33905-909. Seeds 
from Chile. Received through Mr. Jose D. Husbands, Limavida, 
Chile. Edible-fruited and timber-producing species from all 
parts of Chile. Among these may be some fruit trees of con- 
siderable value for the sub-tropics. For distribution later. 
ORYZA SP. (Poaceae.) 34092. Plants of a perennial rice 
from Senegal, West Africa. Presented by the Director of the 
Colonial Garden, Nogent-sur-Marne , France. "In the Richard- 
Toll region in North Senegal, Mr. Paul Ammann has discovered a 
rice that differs from all other African rices in that it has 
rhizomes, and multiplies thus without depending on seed. This 
rice is considered so superior to other rice that at Saint 
Louis, Senegal-, the natives exchange one calabash of it for 
three of Imported rice. The stalks of perennial rice, especial- 
ly when green, constitute a forage of excellent quality. It 
grows in rather light soils, rich in potash and nitrogen but 
poor in phosphoric acid and lime. These soils contain also 
about 0.1 f of sodium chloride, so that this rice would pro- 
bably grow in saline soils, and might be cultivated where the 
soil is too salt for other crops, or in those soils from which 
it is desirable to remove the salt in order to grow cotton or 
other plants." (Ammann, Bulletin de la Societe nationale de 
Agriculture de France, 70:893-900(1910) For distribution later. 
PANICUM SP. .(Poaceae.) 34048. Seeds of a grass from 
Australia. Presented by Mr. E. Breakwell, Economic botanist, 
Department of Agriculture, Sydney, N. S. W. "Spider grass. 
New South Wales has for two years been suffering from a most 
severe drought, about one inch of rain having fallen in six 
months in some places in the interior. This grass in spite of 
the droughty conditions remained green when other vegetation 
was completely dried up. As it is a most palatable and nu- 
tritious fodder it is of great promise." (Breakwell.) For 
distribution later. 
PARKIA TIMORIANA. (Mimosaceae . ) 34094. Seeds of the 
cupang from the Philippine Islands. Presented by Mr. 0. W. 
Barrett, chief, Division of Experiment Stations, Manila. A 
very large straight-boled native tree with soft white wood, 
fern-like leaves with very small leaflets, small white flowers 
