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heard characterized of certain varieties of lettuce. 
It is not eaten raw or for salad purposes: but when 
dropped into boiling hot water after being cut up in 
fairly large pieces it makes a staple green vegetable. 
The rapid growth struck me as being valuable, for if 
in the same time as is necessary for growing lettuce, 
one can obtain a good green cabbage, it will be un- 
doubtedly as popular here as it Is in China." (Kin. 
Letter 2-26-18. ) 
Claueena lansium (Rutaceae), 45328. WampL Prom 
Yeungkong, Canton, Kwang Tung, China. Presented* by 
W. H. Dobson, M.D. , The Forman Memorial Hospital. A 
low spineless tree with spreading branches; pinnate., 
spirally arranged evergreen leaves ; and 4 to 5-parted, 
small, white flowers in large terminal panicles. Fruit 
ovate-globose about 1 inch long; skin glandular, pu- 
bescent; seeds green. The wampi is a native of S. 
China where it is commonly grown for its fruits. It 
is cultivated to some extent in Hawaii and could prob- 
ably be grown in the warmer parts of Florida and Cali- 
fornia. It can be grafted on grapefruit and other 
species of Citrus, which makes it desirable to test 
it as a stock for common citrous fruits. (Adapted 
from W. T. Swingle, Bailey's Standard Cyclopedia of 
Horticulture, vol. 2, p. 786.) "Seeds from the largest 
Wong pi I have ever seen. The Wong pi is a grapelike 
fruit with large green seeds and evergreen leaves." 
(Dobson. ) 
Corylus eolurna (Betulaceae) , 45347. Turkish hazelnut. 
From Rochester, New York. Presented by Mr. John Dun- 
bar, Assistant Superintendent of Parks, throxigh Mr. 
C. A. Reed, of this Bureau. "The plants from which 
these nuts were obtained came from L. Spath, Berlin, 
Germany, twenty-five years ago. They began to bear 
fruit about six years ago. The trees are now about 
twenty-five feet tall. It took these nuts two years 
to germinate." (Dunbar.) The tree is well worth 
growing for its stately* form, so remarkable for a 
•hazel, and for its curiously enveloped nuts. Native 
of southeastern Europe and Asia Minor; introduced Into 
England about the middle of the seventeenth century. 
(Adapted from Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the 
British Isles, vol. 1, p. 402.) 
Cudrania trieuspidata (Moraceae) , 45448. From Augusta, 
Georgia. Presented by P. J. Berckmans Company. "This 
