1085 
Van Fleet, of this Department. A slender-branched 
shrub, up to 8 feet in height, with numerous bristles 
and slender prickles. The leaves are composed of 
7 to 15 obtuse, serrate leaflets, and the pink flow- 
ers, which occur 1 to 3 in a cluster, are three- 
fourths inch wide. The scarlet fruit is about one- 
third inch long. This rose is a native of western 
China". (Adapted from Render, in Bailey, Standard Cy- 
clopedia of Horticulture, p. 2998.) 
Schinopsis lorentzii (Gr Is eb.) Engler. ( Anacardlaceae . ) 
43548. Seeds of quebracho Colorado from Buenos Aires, 
Argentina. Received through the Bureau of Chemistry,, 
from the Food Research Laboratory, Philadelphia, who 
secured it from the Director of the Botanical Gar- 
dens, Buenos Aires. "Red Quebracho. Tree of very hard 
wood, with compound, coriaceous leaves; flowers borne 
in branching clusters, fruit a samara. It Is one of 
the Argentine woods which, exposed to the air, buried 
in part or wholly or submerged in water keeps for 25 
years in good condition as is shown by the tests made 
with posts, beams, ties, etc., laid by the Argentina 
railways. The products which are obtained from this 
tree constitute the principal source of income of the 
people where It grows. From the logs are manufactured 
beams, ties, telegraph posts, lamp posts, etc., which 
are exported in large quantities to foreign countries. 
The charcoal Is very compact; and the extract (tannin) 
is an important product. The sawdust is very much 
used intanning." (Carrasco.) 
Solarium melongena L. (Solanaceae. ) 43636. Seeds of 
egg-plant from Westfleld, New Jersey. Presented by Dr. 
R. S. Keeler. "The Japanese egg-plant of the long- 
fruit, variety, grown from seed in my own garden at 
Westfleld, New Jersey, from seed imported from Japan. 
This variety of egg plant is very fruitful and pos- 
sesses fine keeping qualities. In fact, I still have 
some of them on hand and find them very good eating, 
although they were picked from the garden five weeks 
ago, after having been exposed to four or five rather 
severe frosts and a temperature as low as. 36 de- 
grees." (Keeler.) 
Viburnum burejaetieum Regel & Herd. (Caprlf oliaceae . ) 
43730. Seeds from Jamaica Plain, Mass. Presented by 
the Arnold Arboretum and selected by Mr. H. C. Skeels 
and Dr. W. Van Fleet, of this department. A shrub, 4 
