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In the Nilghiri Hills. The lanceolate leaves are 4 
to 8 Inches long, and the small, white, sweet-scented 
flowers are borne in long, slender, spikelike racemes. 
This plant flowers continuously for three months in 
India. (Adapted from Curtis' s Botanical Magazine, 
pi. 6323.) 
Caryoear sp. ( Caryocaraceae ) , 47587. From Colombia. 
Seeds collected by Mr. Alfred Lenz , Flushing, Long 
Island. "This genus yields the souari nut, sometimes 
exported from South America to Europe. There are sever- 
al species which produce edible nuts. Probably the 
only section of the United States in which they can 
be planted with reasonable hopes of success is extreme 
south Florida. " (Popenoe.) 
Coffea bengalensis (Rubiaceae), 47661. From 
Darjeeling, India. A collection of seeds presented by 
Mr. G. H. Cave, director, Lloyd Botanic Garden. This 
shrub, which is a close relative of the plant which 
furnishes the coffee of commerce, is anative of India, 
and is remarkable for the number and beauty of its 
flowers. These flowers , which are large and white, are 
borne singly or in pairs at the ends of the branches. 
(Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, pi. 4917.) 
Coix lacryir-a-jobi (Poaceae), 47617. Job's-tears. From uio 
de Janeiro, Brazil. Seeds presented by Mr. T. R. Day, 
through Mr. Augustus I. Hasskarl, American vice consul, 
Rio de Janeiro . "'Lagrimas de Nossa Senhore ' (Tears of 
Our Lady). I found this plant growing in a natural 
state in Brazil and have had it under experiment for 
about three years at one of the Leopoldina Railway 
Company's Experiment Stations. It is a very vigorous 
grower, and produces under almost any conditions here 
great crops of excellent forage. It reaches aheight of 
10 feet or over, and a single plant often produces 40 to 
50 shoots. The yield in green forage under favorable 
conditions runs very high, from 10 to even 20 tons to 
the acre, and the yield of grain is also very heavy. 
The seeds are very hard and require crushing or grind- 
ing before feeding if allowed to mature. But I am of 
the opinion that the best results may be obtained from 
the use of the plant for soiling, cutting four or five 
times during the year. The plant stools well, con- 
tinually sending up new shoots or stems, thereby re- 
newing itself, and lasting here for some years. In 
temperate climates it would be an annual, as in the 
case of teosinte and maize. Its favorite habitat is 
