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Mr. Adn. Hernandez, Director, Bureau of Agriculture. 
"This, like the mangosteen, is a delicious Oriental 
fruit not yet well established in America. While it 
is not as famous as the mangosteen, it is highly es- 
teemed throughout the Malayan . region and is praised 
by many travelers. Judging from our limited experience 
with it, the langsat Is slightly hardier than the man- 
gosteen, and there seems to be no reason why it should 
not succeed with us. A few plants have been grown in 
the West Indies and other parts of the American tropics, 
but I have yet to hear of its fruiting outside the 
Orient. The langsat has two allies in America: one the 
well-known umbrella tree (Melia azedaraeh) of the United 
States; the other the tropical mahogany (Swietenia) . 
The genus Lansium, to which the langsat belongs, is a 
small one; and is the only one cultivated for its fruit. 
The duku, a fruit closely resembling the langsat, is com- 
monly considered a botanical variety of L. domestieum. 
The tree is rather slender in habit, with a straight 
trunk and compound leaves composed of 3 or more pairs 
of elliptic to obovate leaflets 3 or 4 inches in length. 
The fruits, which ripen in the Straits Settlements 
from July to September , are produced in small clusters; 
in general appearance they suggest large loquats, the 
surface being straw-colored and slightly downy. The 
skin is thick and leathery and does not adhere to the 
white translucent flesh which separates into 5 segments. 
Each segment normally contains an oval seed, but some 
of the segments in each fruit are usually seedless. 
The flavor is highly aromatic, at times slightly pun- 
gent. The fruit is commonly eaten while fresh but it 
is said also to be utilized in various other ways. 
The name lanzon is applied to this fruit in the Philip- 
pine Islands, langsat or langseh being the form used in 
the Malay Peninsula." (Wilson Popenoe.) 
Passiflora ligularis (Passif loraceae ) , 45614. From 
Caracas, Venezuela. Presented by Mr. H. Pittler. "Un- 
questionably one of the best of the granadillas. In Guat- 
emala it is common at elevations of 4,000 to 7,000 
feet, but I have never seen it in the lowlands; it 
appears therefore, that it is adapted to subtropical 
climates, and judging from its presence in portions of 
Guatemala almost too cold for the avooados, I feel that 
it ought to succeed in California. The behavior of 
other species, such as P. edulis, in that state indi- 
cates that conditions in general are favorable to the 
passif loras, and the question has generally been one 
