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Department. Two legumes secured along with a number of others 
as promising plants for green manure crops. For distribution 
later. 
DIOSPYROS SP. (Ebenaceae.) 32863. Cuttings of a wild 
persimmon from Tangsi, China. Presented by Rev. Alex. Kennedy, 
through Rev. J. M. W. Farnham, Shanghai, China. These cut- 
tings are supposed to be from the same striking whitebarked 
variety described in Meyer's bulletin on Agricultural explo- 
rations in China, as being used as a stock for the cultivated 
persimmon in central China, and illustrated in plate III, fig. 
1, of that bulletin. For distribution later. 
DIOSPYPOS KAKI. (Ebenaceae.) 32748-750, 32864-872, 32886. 
Cuttings and plants of various Japanese varieties of persimmon 
frOm Sapporo, Yokohama, and Hiroshima, Japan. No. 32750 is 
composed of scions from male persimmon trees, for which 
special requests have been made, since practically all the 
trees now growing in this country from imported cuttings pro- 
duce either female flowers only or male flowers in entirely 
insufficient numbers to supply an adequate amount of pollen. 
For distribution later. 
FICUS SP. (Moraceae .). 32878 . Cuttings of the Isabella fig 
from Granada, Spain. Received from Mr. Pedro Giraud, at the 
request of Mr. Wm. A. S. Davenhill, British vice-consul. 
"This is cultivated extensively, I might say preferably, in 
and about Granada. It is a medium-sized fig, rounded turbi- 
nate, white in color with reddish pulp. In shape it resembles 
the hirta of Japan with a well set neck. It is an exceedingly 
good fig, and one of the best table varieties I have tasted. 
It was ripe in September and we had good fruit yet in Novem- 
ber, a long season for any fig. This fig, as far as I know, 
has not been introduced to California." (Dr. Gustav Eisen, 
at whose suggestion the cuttings were obtained.) For distri- 
bution later. 
FICUS ROXBURGHII. (Moraceae.) 32752. Cuttings from the 
Calcutta Royal Botanical Gardens, Sibpur, Calcutta, India. 
Presented by Major A. T. Gage, Director. An Indian species 
with fruits up to 3| inches in diameter introduced for breed- 
ing purposes. For distribution later. 
GARCINIA SP. (Clusiaceae. ) 32704. Seeds from Inhambane, 
Portuguese Africa. Presented by Rev. Pliny W. Keys, Methodist 
Episcopal Mission. "Native name pembe . Either a branched 
bush, an erect tree, or a bushy tree, in each case the stems 
set with numerous firm, little, more or less evergreen 
