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The rapidly growing Mate industry, the wild fibre 
plant Caroa, the myrtaceous fruits such as the Jabottcaba, 
the passifloras, the bamboos, and the rubber plant, Han- 
'coiviia, are a few of the many things which have provision- 
ally been put on the program for investigation. 
The expedition goes out fully equipped to get natural 
size photographs of fruits, and herbarium material, as 
well as living seeds and plants of everything worthy of 
introduction and it will confine its attention to the Pro- 
vinces of Bahia, Rio, Minas, and Sao Paulo. 
This must be considered a preliminary study of the 
gigantic problem of utilizing for American farmers and 
fruit growers of the Southern States the valuable plants 
of Southern Brazil, and it is realized that the expedition 
can do little more than open our eyes to the possibilities 
there and bring in such valuable plants as the short 
period, of six months allotted to them will permit them to 
investigate . 
David Faircnild. 
Apium sp . (Apiaceae.) 35920. Seeds of a wild celery 
from Quilan, Chile. Presented by Mr. W. F. Wight of this 
bureau. "A wild celery from south of Quilan, which has 
more or less the same taste as Apium graveolens and can be 
utilized in the same way. This should prove a very valu- 
able plant. I found it only near the sea." (Wight.) For 
distribution later. 
Berberis spp. (Berberidaceae . ) 35923-924. Seeds of 
barberries from San Martin, Argentina. Presented by Mr. 
W. F. Wight of this Bureau. Two species of this very or- 
namental genus from southern Chile, both very low and with 
ornamental fruits. For distribution later. 
Buddleia hemsleyana, (Loganiaceae . ) 36001. Seeds from 
the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. Presented 
by the Regius Keeper. A central Chinese species related 
to B. variabilis, but differing in its robust upright 
growth, in its leaves nearly twice as long, and its small- 
er flowers without orange in the throat. (Koehne, in Gar- 
tenflora, 52:169-171, 1903.) For distribution later. 
Carica candamarcensis. ( Papayaceae . ) 35925. Seeds of 
the mountain papaya from Quillota, Chile. Presented by 
Mr. W. F. Wight of this Bureau. "These ' fruit's were grown 
in Quillota and are theref ore perhaps as hardy as any to 
be had in Chile." (Wight.) For distribution later. See 
also next description. 
Carica candamarcensis. (Papayaceae.) 36069. Seeds of 
the mountain papaya from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Pera- 
