NOTES FROM FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS. 
BURMA, Myaing-ga-lay , Miss Susan E. Haswell writes November 11 
that she can give us no information in regard to the species of 
Pueraria we asked for, hut has written to Mr. Burkill, Superin- 
tendent of Economic Products for India, for information. She 
will send Karen potatoes (a sort of yam) next month. She 
writes, "There is a fruit here which I have never seen before. 
It is called by the Burmese K'doot-thi. It grows on a tree : with 
spreading branches about 25 feet high, and very coarse, rough 
leaves. The fruit when ripe is very much the color of a straw- 
berry, not quite so red; where not fully ripe is yellowish. The 
unripe fruit is a pale green. It is the most singular tree I 
ever Baw. The fruit grows on sprays coming out in a perfect 
tangle from the lowest crotch where the branches start out. I 
thought some one had cut vines and tossed them up into the 
crotch of the tree. They are only three or four feet above the 
ground, very handy for small boys. I found one picking and eat- 
ing. He had only left two ripe ones, though there are hundreds 
of small green ones. The fruit is very like a strawberry in 
flavor only a little more tart. The outside skin is rough and 
dotted with tiny yellow dots. The meat is white and full bf 
tiny brown seeds. We eat skin and all. The fruit sprays are 
from 18 inches to over a yard in length and are all snarled to- 
gether. The fruit grows like a string of beads along the sides 
of the sprays. I will try to get a photograph of the tree 1 for 
you next month. The leaves of the K'doot grow on long stems. 
There are two varieties on the Toungos hills, I am told, but 
the fnxit is much the same in flavor and size. I will write to 
a friend in Toungos and see if I can secure some seeds of the 
other variety. The one tree here has a cleft trunk, and in the 
cleft right on the ground, a number of small sprays have 
started and are bearing. I have dried the seeds of the two 
fruits, and will send them when danger of freezing in the mails 
is past." 
CHINA, Szechuan, Yachow. Mr. W. F. Beaman writes November 18 that 
he is sending us a quantity of B nan-mu tt seeds (Ma<ihilus :f 
nanmu ?). He saw Mr. E. H. Wilson, the Arnold Arlboretum Obi- 
lector, a few weeks ago in Chengtu, the capital of the prov- 
ince, and reports that during the summer Mr. Wilson met with a 
very serious accident in which his leg was broken. He has! not 
yet recovered from it, 
COCHIN CHINA, Saigon. Mr. P. Morange, Director of the Agricultur- 
al Department writes November 18 that he is searching for seeds 
and plants of Luvunga nitida, which he will send as soon as he 
secures them. He is sending seeds of Feronia eleptantum, packed 
in wet coir in order that the seeds may germinate* en route. 
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